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Canadian Neo Bank Koho Extends Series B by C$25 Million

Drive Capital and National Bank of Canada have invested C$25 million in Canadian neo banking startup Koho.

The new funding is an extension of the startup's earlier $42 million fundraising round led by Portag3 Ventures.

Billed as an alternative to a traditional banking experience, Koho users are furnished with a reloadbale Visa card and and a mobile app which offers real-time insights into money management, instant cashback, round-ups, and automated savings goals.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 04:10
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Financial IT
Monzo Hires Visa's Anil to Lead US expansion
Anil

UK digital bank Monzo has hired Visa's global head of payment products and platforms, TS Anil, to lead its push into the US.

Anil, a 25-year financial services veteran with stints at Standard Chartered, Citi and Capital One behind him, will join Monzo as US CEO early next year.

Monzo launched an initial beta roll-out in the US in August, working with 1000 customers to gather feedback on what it says will be a bespoke product for the American market, where it has a 20,000-strong waiting list.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 04:08
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Financial IT
SoFi Gets New York BitLicense for Cryptocurrency Trading
SoFi

SoFi has been granted a BitLicense by New York regulators, paving the way for online lender to offer cryptocurrency trading services in the state.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 04:06
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Financial IT
Zerion Raises $2M to Fuel Next Phase of Decentralized Finance
Zerion

Zerion, the first simple interface to the protocols of decentralized finance (“DeFi”), has raised $2M in seed funding from Placeholder, Blockchain.com Ventures, and Gnosis. The team will use the investment to accelerate development and add support for more DeFi services. Zerion has processed over $47M in transaction volume over the last five months and won an award for the Best UX in the Ethereum ecosystem at Devcon in October 2019.

 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 04:01
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Financial IT
Volvo Chooses FICO for Vehicle Subscription Service Onboarding
FICO

Volvo Cars has selected FICO® Decision Modeler to immediately onboard customers to its new Care by Volvo service. The move demonstrates the increasing adoption of advanced decision management technology in the auto finance industry.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 03:58
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Financial IT
Druva Unveils Powerful Protection Capabilities for Key Amazon Web Services Workloads

Druva, Inc., the leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, today announced extended data protection capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise workloads, including innovative backup and data management for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), long-term archiving for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots and new global policies for AWS accounts.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 03:53
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Financial IT
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Issues Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking On Remittance Rule
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau)

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) issued today a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to the Remittance Rule (Rule). The Rule generally requires companies that provide remittance transfers in the normal course of business disclose to consumers certain fees and the exchange rates that apply to transfers. The Rule also includes an exception that allows certain banks and credit unions to estimate certain fee and exchange rate information instead of disclosing exact amounts in certain circumstances, but this exception expires by statute in July 2020. 

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 03:51
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Financial IT
PwC forms alliance with Fenergo to streamline KYC compliance for financial institutions
Professional services firm PwC

Professional services firm PwC has joined up with leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions Fenergo to “do KYC differently”.

Collaborating with Fenergo means that PwC will now provide client onboarding and KYC review and refresh operations as managed services, complementing PwC’s existing AML and KYC remediation offerings.  

PwC’s financial institution clients can now access an innovative and efficient managed solution to address their ongoing KYC challenges.

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 03:47
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Financial IT
Mphasis inducts Quantel AI into Sparkle Innovation Ecosystem to deliver AI-based risk management solutions

Mphasis , an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced its partnership with Quantel AI,

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 13:12
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Financial IT
Citibank Launches One-stop Mobile Account Opening Service

Citibank is launching its one-stop Mobile Account Opening Service, which allows new clients to open bank account1 (Citibanking, Citi Priority or Citigold Account) and investment accounts in one go through Citi Mobile® App at anytime and anywhere. The account application can be completed in a minimum of 10 minutes2. Once the application is completed and approved, the new bank account can be used immediately on the same day. Clients no longer have to visit any branch throughout the entire account opening process.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 11:42
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