The rise of big tech: setting new expectations

The fundamentals of what businesses and individuals perceive as banking have evolved from a traditional high street model to a complex ecosystem of financial and technology providers - all working in collaboration with one another.

BELLIN, a global leader in providing web-based treasury software and services for multinational corporations, has successfully integrated SWIFT gpi for Corporates (g4C) technology in its tm5 treasury management system. BELLIN client Darling Ingredients Inc. just went live with g4C and has processed the first g4C payments in tm5, together with JPMorgan Chase bank.

First and long-time investor Amerborgh sells a part of its stake in Ohpen to NPM Capital, that upon the transaction, will have a 35% stake in Ohpen. Amerborgh wanted to sell this stake to finance ongoing and future projects, like the arts and culture centre "het HEM" in Zaandam.

Ohpen is a fast-growing Fintech company. The Ohpen SaaS, cloud native core banking platform administers retail investment and savings accounts for banks and other financial institutions.

Flywire, a company that solves complex payment problems for educational institutions and their students around the world, today announced the next strategic step in its partnership with TRUE North, a Canadian-based provider of online systems for information management, tracking, collaboration, and reporting for international student programs. The companies have integrated their solutions – connecting the application, enrollment and cross-border payment and receivables processes to provide schools, interna

When I talk about FinTech, I often reflect on the first time I encountered what I would, today, call a truly FinTech firm. It was on March 30, 2005, and a newly formed firm presented at the Financial Services Club an idea. The idea was to connect people with money to people who needed money through a platform and an algorithm. It wasn’t called FinTech back then, this was an early nascent market, but the idea was tremendous and completely alien in 2005.

Igor Galkin, Head of Global Business Development and Sales at Libertex Group, said, “Lyft held an IPO at the end of March, 2019. Its shares are one of the most interesting instruments of this season. We’re glad to offer our clients CFD for Lyft shares and open new trading opportunities for them.”
 

A new deposit acquisition strategy capitalizing on cutting-edge technology and globalized market opportunities.

The quality of payment processing by paytech firm Paysend has been recognised by MasterCard.

The recognition comes in the form of MasterCard’s Regional Compliance Award, which compares ICAs (Interbank Card Association Numbers) in their respective region. Only ICAs in the top five per cent with the highest compliance percentage receive the awards.

Imandra Inc. - creator of the Imandra cloud-native automated reasoning engine - has completed a $5 million Seed investment led by AlbionVC, IQ Capital and LiveOak Venture Partners. The capital will be used towards further growth in financial services and fast-growing applications of their AI technology to autonomous vehicles, robotics and machine learning. Imandra democratises deep advances in symbolic AI for making algorithms safe, explainable and fair.

Statistics from the recent FCA complaints handling report show that the total redress paid to consumers was £2.26 billion, 12% (£216 million) increase compared to £2.57 billion in 2018 this time last year.