Among the founding ideas for Ripple is to expand global financial inclusion for everyone—not just those in wealthy nations. The existing financial system is antiquated, broken and poorly designed to serve the needs of those in emerging markets, which are too often overlooked by financial service providers.

Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven financial information technology provider, announced significant updates to its groundbreaking Research Assistant platform. The upgrades include an increased number of content providers and languages ingested, the creation of custom ESG indexes and the launch of additional services targeted towards parsing the internal documents of customers.

The agreement will see the Taiwanese bank implement Avaloq’s market-leading wealth management software across its private banking division in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Avaloq’s new client is one of Taiwan’s largest commercial banks with more than 150 branches throughout the country. Besides its home market, the bank also offers private banking services in Hong Kong and Singapore.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, highlights the latest technologies in digital payment innovation through its internal community event, the Worldline TeX Show, throughout the month of October.  In a series of webinars and video presentations, Worldline’s technical community share and exchange information on the latest achievements, discoveries and innovations in fields such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, quantum computing, face recognition, mobile authentication and many othe

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Finastra has opened registration for its annual hackathon: Hack to the Future 2020. This year the global event is entirely virtual and its themes reaffirm the company’s mantra to help redefine finance for good.

FinecoBank today announces the expansion of its investment offerings with a suite of funds from J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

COVID-19 has shifted the role of the internal finance function.

From “work from home” mandates and furloughs to downsizing and outright business closures, every department found themselves forced into change. Finance departments have been particularly impacted due to the crucial role they play when it comes to businesses navigating through crises.

Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) provider Zilch has partnered with challenger credit reference agency and Open Banking provider Credit Kudos to better assess affordability of its customers. 

Businesses in the UK and U.S. have been ramping up their identity verification processes in order to protect customers during the COVID-19 pandemic.