Niyo, India's premier digital banking fintech, today announced the launch of Niyo X— a state-of-the-art mobile banking solution for millennials — in partnership with Equitas Small Finance Bank and Visa. With this launch, the company aims to on-board 2M customers by calendar year end 2021.

ING announced today that Andrew Bester will be appointed member of the Management Board Banking and head of Wholesale Banking. Andrew takes up his position on 6 April 2021, succeeding Isabel Fernandez, who stepped down effective 31 December 2020.

LenDenClub, one of the leading peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in India, today said that it has integrated with Google Pay and is now live on its platform. It is the first P2P lending company to integrate with the tech platform. With this integration, customers of GPay can now lend and borrow through LenDenClub as seamlessly as they can make payments through the platform. 

Newly launched digital treasury services management provider SH Capital Ltd (SHC), has appointed FinIQ as its digital trading platform.

The company selected FinIQ, a leading Singapore-based capital markets technology provider, following a competitive search for a partner to support its expanding services across Dubai and the UAE region.

Lacklustre customer experiences have plagued financial services products for some time. For years consumers have been left frustrated with the experience they get from their banks. Other than the government, financial services has the lowest ranking customer experience. 

Horizon Software a leading provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, is making its trading and algo solutions available in the fast-growing Vietnam market.

Throughout the pandemic, capital has poured into the Vietnamese stock market – surging 20% to US$16.64 billion last year. With average transaction value estimated at US$304.8 million per session, up 51.5% year-on-year, the market is set for greater electronification.

Next gen core banking platform Yobota has announced the appointment of Ion Fratiloiu as its new Head of Sales. 

Ion boasts significant sales experience, having led sales growth for the likes of FTSE500 US fintech organisation Fiserv as part of its expansion into new territories across Eastern Europe. 

Bitcoin has been in the spotlight for the last year due to its massive bull market phase and, it's the previous halving that happened on May 11th, 2020. It should be noted that one of the contributing factors for this bull run is Bitcoin halving, so here we explain why this event is very important for the entire blockchain network and what are the main advantages that Bitcoin users can expect when bitcoin halving happens.

What is Bitcoin Halving?

Traditional security strategies that financial institutions have relied on for years are being challenged by digital transformation. A remarkable 68% of banking and financial executives believe their distributed workforces introduced new vulnerabilities.