Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that FINCI, a Lithuanian fintech company, has gone live with Temenos. FINCI is running next generation Temenos Payments on cloud-native technology along with Temenos Transact core banking on the same environment.

Atome, Hong Kong's innovative Buy-Now-Pay-Later platform is providing a more flexible payment solution to local customers, addressing new lifestyle needs under the New Normal. Atome has been working with different online and offline merchants, together with the deployment of AI technology, to promote responsible spending habits.

Finzly, a fintech provider of modern banking applications for payments, foreign exchange, trade finance and digital account opening, announced that Lancaster, Pa.-based Fulton Bank, N.A. ($25 billion asset) has gained significant operational efficiencies in its foreign exchange initiatives through the use of Finzly’s FX STARTM and EXIM STARTM solutions.

Nutanix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private cloud, hybrid, and multicloud computing, today announced the appointment of Andrew Gill as Channel Director for Western Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa (WEURSSA). 

Finastra announced that it has joined the Federal Reserve’s FedNow Pilot Program to support development, testing and adoption of the FedNowSM Service. Finastra joins other progressive banks, credit unions and payments technology organizations in the FedNow Community to help shape the future of payments and develop use cases that leverage FedNow functionality.

Global cyber security and risk mitigation expert, NCC Group, has partnered with Ashurst FinTech Legal Labs, the business accelerator programme provided by global law firm Ashurst, to strengthen cyber resilience across FinTech businesses by collaborating on legal, innovation and cyber security initiatives. 

Phil Shelley, ex-Goldman banker and founder of Arlington Capital Markets Ltd has been appointed Chairman of the Board of ALT/AVE (www.altave.co.uk), a new, London-based Regtech startup that uses Distributed Ledger Technology to help combat the underreported paper waste problem faced by financial institutions by offering a secure and sustainable digital solution for distributing highly regulated documents to their customers.

Leading mortgage technology provider, Twenty7Tec, has announced that following the completion of a successful pilot with Virgin Money, all users of the CloudTwenty7 platform will now be able to access the APPLY integration.

During the pilot phase, Mortgage Advice Bureau (MAB) and Connells successfully submitted over 1,000 applications to Virgin Money via APPLY.

The APPLY integration with Virgin will enable users of the CloudTwenty7 platform to:

Banks are looking for greater flexibility and functionality to enhance the customer experience at their ATMs and advanced software is helping them get there

upSWOT, a fintech platform helping financial institutions dramatically improve their ability to service Small-Medium Business clients (SMBs), announces a $4.3M seed round with commitments from multiple VC firms, corporate partners, and 50+ prominent angels and industry operators. Utilizing an API-driven, modern approach, similar to Plaid, upSWOT connects, collects, and normalizes data from over 120 business software tools SMBs regularly use, such as Quickbooks, Xero, Salesforce, Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Freshbooks, Sage, and more.