The Philippines is about to welcome its first digital-only bank. TONIK Digital Bank Inc, founded in 2018, received its banking license from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (Philippines’ Central Bank) in January 2020. Preparing for its launch, TONIK has selected BPC as its exclusive payment partner, leveraging BPC’s payments processing centre and its SmartVista solution.

SIX Group has selected award-winning RegTech provider Know Your Customer to strengthen its procurement process and better assess the risk associated with its international suppliers.

Today, new research from global payments provider Klarna reveals that although consumers in the UK are less likely than their global counterparts to openly discuss money, there are signs that younger Brits are becoming increasingly more willing to discuss financial matters with friends and family.

Revolut today announced the appointment to its board of former Co-Chief Executive of Goldman Sachs International, Michael Sherwood as a Non-Executive Director and of Ian Wilson, an experienced retail banker and former CRO, as Non-Executive Director. 

TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in enterprise data, empowers its customers to connect, unify, and confidently predict business outcomes to solve the world’s most complex data-driven challenges.

Finastra customers can now consume Active.Ai’s conversational AI retail banking app via the FusionStore. Banks and credit unions will be able to quickly deploy AI avatars to engage their customers and members 24x7 in the banking channel of their choice.

The German developer of specialised software b-next has concluded the past fiscal year with an important business deal. A major Moscow-based bank has decided to monitor their future trading activities using an installed surveillance platform developed by b-next. For the software provider, this achievement marks an important step in entering the Russian market.

Open Banking Expo returns to Toronto on June 9, 2020 to prepare delegates for likely legislative action as a result of the second phase of the Government’s Open Banking consultation. The agenda is now live at https://www.openbankingexpo.com/toronto/#agenda.

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) has been named a Leader in business process services (BPS) for life sciences companies by consulting and research firm

Moneythor, an award-winning provider of data driven digital experiences for banks and fintech firms, and Nihon Unisys, the leading supplier of digital banking integration solutions in Japan, today announced that they have partnered to provide personalised digital banking solutions to Japanese financial institutions.