Today ATB Financial officially launches a virtual banking assistant to the company’s nearly 700,000 personal banking customers, working with FinTech Finn.ai to make access to secure, day-to-day personal banking as easy as initiating a conversation in Facebook Messenger.

Top Image Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ: TISA), a global provider of solutions that facilitate digital business, today announced today announced the launch of its cloud-based eFLOW AP solution, integrated with SAP Business One.

Arya, an intelligent, open architecture digital services platform for both personal and business account holders, today revealed new business banking functionalities, including business bill pay and cash management services that support positive pay. 

Today’s move by Transferwise to drop money transfer fees for UK customers is a welcome one, especially in the face of massive unpredictability surrounding Sterling’s value in the last year.

Today at Money 20/20, Temenos (SIX: TEMN) and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a collaboration with Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI), Israel’s leading bank, to create an advanced digital banking platform for banks. The new solution available today to banks worldwide is based on the platform originally developed for Pepper, Bank Leumi’s fully-mobile bank.

ING announced today it has started to offer online lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in France and Italy. The proposition fits ING's strategy to grow its lending business to SMEs and creating a differentiating customer experience. The offering has been developed in a unique collaboration with suppliers and fintechs, including Kabbage, the fintech ING is already offering instant lending with to SMEs in Spain since 2016. ING invested in Kabbage late 2015.

Today we are excited to share that Braintree Direct merchants in countries where Braintree currently supports Android Pay can now allow their customers to make purchases with Pay with Google. Pay with Google allows consumers to make purchases with payment methods they've stored in Android Pay, and, for the first time, other payment methods they’ve associated with their accounts on Google properties like YouTube, the Play Store, and the Google Store.

RegTech research from Lombard Risk, conducted last month at its Regulatory Reporting Conference showed banks operating in the UK are looking to accelerate the use of automated regulatory reporting in the face of increasing compliance requirements and regulation, and to make better use of regulatory data for analytical purposes.

The FinTech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK) has announced that Syed Musheer Ahmed has been appointed as its Interim General Manager.

Musheer has an extensive background in financial services and technology. He is a global markets trading and strategy consulting professional with cross-functional, multi-asset, international experience in financial services, with a strong understanding of financial technology and digital innovation.