Kigali, Rwanda will host Finbank Innovation Conference & Expo taking place at Kigali Convention Centre on 26^th - 27^th  August 2020 where bankers, insurers, microfinance institutions, investment managers and software developers will gather in the main aim of advancing forward the finance technology in Africa.

At Form3, we’re changing the way international payments are made, for the better. A business wishing to trade internationally currently has to deal with a complex infrastructure that is hard to navigate and expensive to maintain.

Through our partnership with Ebury, we’re building the world’s first single global transaction platform. For financial institutions, this means that they can plug into our platform and access a suite of state-of-the-art international payment services and a network to build a tailored payments ecosystem.

Auriga, a leading supplier of technological solutions for the omnichannel banking and payments industries, today announced a new strategic partnership with Transaction Systems (TRSYS), a major international technology solutions provider helping financial and retail organizations embark on their journey towards digital transformation.

Trade Ledger and Wiserfunding today announced a partnership that allows banks and alternative finance providers to more accurately assess their mid-market commercial customers for secured and unsecured credit.  Trade Ledger, the specialist mid-market commercial Lending-as-a-Service platform, confirmed that Wiserfunding’s leading business credit score, the SME Z-Score, would be made available within both their loan origination and management portals, to help their rapidly growing client base access the fastest and most precise business credit score available. 

The FinTech Modulr today announced it has joined Visa as a principal issuing member, granting it direct access to the industry-leading global payments network. The new partnership will add extra functionality and benefits to Modulr’s offering, including optimised pricing, improved speed to market and simpler ways to launch Visa products. 

Global fintech leader Airwallex today announced an integration with Xero, the global small business platform – to help Airwallex’s small-to-medium business (SMB) customers seamlessly reconcile their domestic and international payments, saving time and ensuring accuracy.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, has appointed René Bonvanie as Chairman of the Board. A member of the Acronis Board of Directors since 2014, Mr. Bonvanie is the Executive Vice President of Strategic Accounts at Palo Alto Networks. As Chairman of the Board at Acronis, he will work with the Acronis CEO and management team on the company’s enterprise strategy and execution.

SunTec™, a pioneer and world’s number one relationship-based pricing and billing software solutions provider, has joined with Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), a non-profit standards organization established to help banks combine their industry expertise to define a banking technology framework that will standardize and simplify core banking architecture.

Salt Edge, a leader in offering open banking solutions, was invited by the consulting firm PwC to be part of the development of Digital Ecosystem Banking, which has the scope to empower banks towards next generation agility, seamless customer experience and integration with external ecosystems.

Using the principles of Opening Banking, PwC built a demonstration digital bank and successfully integrated a number of Fintechs using SaaS API.