Advapay, a digital core banking platform for fintechs, and Sumsub, an identity verification platform that covers KYC/KYB/AML needs, have partnered to deliver a smart KYC and AML solution to digital banks and fintechs.

Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, announced they have ranked #77 on the 2020 IDC FinTech Rankings.

This is the sixth consecutive year Objectway have appeared on this prestigious list.

The Fortune 500-style annual ranking categorises and evaluates the top global providers of financial technology based on 2019 calendar year revenues from financial institutions.

Kneip, a global leader in fund data management, is today announcing that it has appointed Nick Yeates as Chief Financial Officer. Kneip has ambitious plans to grow globally. To achieve this, Kneip is making significant hires in key areas, with Enrique Sacau appointed as CEO in July and now Nick Yeates as CFO.

additiv, a leading SaaS provider to the wealth management industry, today announced that it has expanded its range of operational locations to include a new Euro-pean head office in Frankfurt, Germany.  With offices already established in Singapore, Dubai, Nairobi, Bucharest and headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, the office will be primarily focused on European customers supporting additiv’s growing customer base within the region.

In a battle for significance, no other public facing business document can match the annual financial report. It is the document that a public corporation must, by law, publish to describe its operations and financial condition, and to chronicle its activities over the past twelve months. Shareholders, investors and the wider financial ecosystem make innumerable strategic and operational decisions based on its contents.

Real-time payments is the new global buzzword for the end customers today. RTP is gaining ground, driven by consumer demand for speed and convenience. With a global footprint, Mindgate Solutions has been at the helm of these exciting developments & currently processes over one billion RTP transactions per month.  With the objective of sharing this domain expertise – Mindgate Solutions recently organized a roundtable session at SIBOS 2020.

Spendesk, the leading spend management platform for SMBs, today announced it has raised $18 million in addition to its Series B round last year ($38 million). The new investment comes from global VC fund Eight Roads Ventures and brings the total raised to $68.5 million. This funding will support the strong growth Spendesk has realised despite the current pandemic, which has accelerated digitisation of finance departments and increased the demand for spend management solutions.

ClientPay (clientpay.com), an award-wining digital payment acceptance solution for legal and professional services firms, has announced enhanced security features designed to help firms operate more securely, with reduced liability and lower PCI scope. These features include a Request Payment Method solution and Multi-Factor Authentication.

At the end of last year, Infosys published a 2020 trends forecast looking at Artificial Intelligence in banking, but much like everyone else, COVID-19 has forced us to reassess that. A significant change is that banks – and industry, in general – will assert their demands from Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, rather than waiting for AI vendors to propose solutions. These demands will be of a structural nature, and more sophisticated to ensure relevant applications in future use cases.

Banks will expect so much more

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, today announced that Britannia Global Markets, a bespoke, all-encompassing brokerage house and subsidiary of Britannia Financial Group, has selected Broadridge to streamline its post-trade processing for its international s