Three big calls for 2021

Changing trade patterns, changed employment patterns and soaring fines from regulators are big legacies from 2020.

Global analytics and decision management provider FICO has partnered with Linktera, a consultancy and digital solutions provider specializing in risk management, to advance the use of AI-powered credit risk technology in Turkey and Middle East. Linktera will sell and implement FICO’s decision management solutions that help banks and other credit grantors manage risk and expand lending growth.

FinTech Connect, the trade show that connects the global fintech ecosystem, today revealed the priority for one in ten fintech firms over the next year is survival.

tonik, the first digital-only neobank in the Philippines, announced its collaboration with solutions provider CRIF for the automation of its loan origination and collection systems. The partnership will enable tonik to increase its efficiency, and minimize its costs and risks in credit decision making and collection.

European digital bank Advanzia today announces its partnership with digital banking technology provider Backbase, a collaboration that will allow Advanzia to drive digital transformation and optimise customer experience. The long-term partnership includes the implementation of Backbase-as-a-Service (Baas) – a cloud solution that enables banks to develop and release new digital services.

In this day and age, there is an app for everything. Your diet, your schedule, your pleasures, your sleep, your money – just tap on the icon on the screen, and you’ll have all you need. Wonderful, isn’t it? To the extent that it is pretty unclear sometimes who does what: your phone manages you through the apps, or you manage your life through your phone. No irony. Or maybe just a little bit.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global payments technology company, today announced its commitment to support the country’s banks to strengthen digital payment capabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).  

Modularbank, the Estonian-founded, next-generation core banking platform, enabling banks and any other companies to quickly roll out tailored financial services to their customers, today announced a strategic partnership with Nets Estonia, a well-established player in the card payment market in the Baltics and part of Nets Group, one of the top payment processors in Europe. 

NICE Actimize, a NICE business (Nasdaq: NICE), today announced the latest version of its Integrated Fraud Management (IFM-X) platform that delivers one of the industry’s most advanced detection capabilities powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Digital Horizon VC has invested in Round A in the Israeli-American fintech Obligo, which provides deposit-free residential leasing technology in the real estate segment.