SoFi has been granted a BitLicense by New York regulators, paving the way for online lender to offer cryptocurrency trading services in the state.

Zerion, the first simple interface to the protocols of decentralized finance (“DeFi”), has raised $2M in seed funding from Placeholder, Blockchain.com Ventures, and Gnosis. The team will use the investment to accelerate development and add support for more DeFi services. Zerion has processed over $47M in transaction volume over the last five months and won an award for the Best UX in the Ethereum ecosystem at Devcon in October 2019.

Volvo Cars has selected FICO® Decision Modeler to immediately onboard customers to its new Care by Volvo service. The move demonstrates the increasing adoption of advanced decision management technology in the auto finance industry.

Druva, Inc., the leader in Cloud Data Protection and Management, today announced extended data protection capabilities for Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise workloads, including innovative backup and data management for Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), long-term archiving for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots and new global policies for AWS accounts.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (Bureau) issued today a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) relating to the Remittance Rule (Rule). The Rule generally requires companies that provide remittance transfers in the normal course of business disclose to consumers certain fees and the exchange rates that apply to transfers. The Rule also includes an exception that allows certain banks and credit unions to estimate certain fee and exchange rate information instead of disclosing exact amounts in certain circumstances, but this exception expires by statute in July 2020. 

Professional services firm PwC has joined up with leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions Fenergo to “do KYC differently”.

Collaborating with Fenergo means that PwC will now provide client onboarding and KYC review and refresh operations as managed services, complementing PwC’s existing AML and KYC remediation offerings.  

PwC’s financial institution clients can now access an innovative and efficient managed solution to address their ongoing KYC challenges.

Mphasis , an Information Technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced its partnership with Quantel AI,

Citibank is launching its one-stop Mobile Account Opening Service, which allows new clients to open bank account¹ (Citibanking, Citi Priority or Citigold Account) and investment accounts in one go through Citi Mobile® App at anytime and anywhere. The account application can be completed in a minimum of 10 minutes². Once the application is completed and approved, the new bank account can be used immediately on the same day. Clients no longer have to visit any branch throughout the entire account opening process.

Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the latest version of the Appian Platform. The new release of the low-code application development platform increases the speed and business impact of low-code automation for developers, administrators, and end-users.

 Judopay, a leading mobile payments provider has today announced it has partnered with business banking fintech, Tide. Starting immediately, the partnership enables all Judopay clients to benefit from a year’s free money transfers when they sign up to a Tide business account through Judopay.