Cyberwrite today announced it has been included as one of only four vendors in the 2018 list of “Cool Vendors in Insurance”^[i] by leading analysts Gartner. The InsurTech innovator CyberWrite has been recognized for its cyber risk profiling technology for cyber insurance. 

The same degree of disruption that has upended the retail industry is coming to banking, according to Paul Kasinski of Sageworks. “Banking won’t be done the same way five years from now,” Kasinski recently told a group of startups and developers at American Underground, which is one of the 12 Google for Entrepreneurs tech hubs in North America. 

Digital transformation has become a survival strategy for banks today. UK Finance’s The Way We Bank Now report reveals 5.5 billion log-ins to banking apps last year, a 13% rise on the previous year.[1]

Chippin, the pioneering new provider of group payment solutions, today announced a partnership with online payment experts, Secure Trading. Merchants who currently use Secure Trading’s payment gateway services to accept their payments, can now enhance their checkout experience, and benefit from Chippin’s new and innovative group payment facility. 

The unique environment for financial services in Africa is fertile ground for innovative FinTech players who are capitalising on the opportunities to disrupt or leapfrog established business models to make financial services more affordable, accessible and profitable across the continent.  

Turnkey open banking platform provider Token today announces that it is enabling Paymentworld Europe Ltd. to provide a bank direct payments facility to its business and consumer customers.

Paymentworld’s portfolio of payment services includes a payment gateway with 400+ payment options in 160 countries, an EWallet that enables B2B, B2C and C2C transactions, independent payment processing and value-added services such as loyalty and bonus programmes.

 identitii, the company enabling the secure, trusted and auditable exchange of information within and between counterparty financial institutions, today announced a new partnership with Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM), the global market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA). The partnership will see a joint technology offering designed to help financial institutions securely digitise and automate corporate payment and trade transaction processes, and provide a detailed audit trail to aid the efficient and effective detection of fraudulent activities.

Deloitte LLP, with 20 years of successfully delivering large-scale customer outreach solutions, and AllClear ID, Inc., the world’s leading provider of customer breach notification and identity protection, today announce their collaboration to deliver data breach customer notification services to the customers of businesses under the GDPR regulations.

Temenos announced that Julius Baer’s divisions in Singapore and Hong Kong have successfully completed the migration to Temenos WealthSuite. WealthSuite combines core banking, portfolio management, channels and analytics functions in a single wealth management platform.

Julius Baer is a leading Swiss private banking group with around 400 billion USD in assets under management globally. The bank focuses on providing high-end services and in-depth advice to clients around the world.

Target Group, the business process outsourcing and operational transformation provider, has today announced it is bringing an enhanced digital service solution to the transfer agency (TA) market for investment firms by partnering with Bravura Solutions.