Ahead of this year’s Connected Claims Europe Summit (September 18th & 19th, Amsterdam), Insurance Nexus spoke to global thought leaders working in Claims (from AXA Insurance, American Modern Insurance Group, Zurich and more), to understand how they are preparing to meet exceptionally high customer expectation

Last week saw Europe’s largest Fintech event return to Amsterdam: Money 20/20 Europe. The conference brought together all stakeholders from across the industry. It took a deep dive into the major developments shaping the world of payments as we know it. Enhancing the consumer experience remained a constant theme throughout. But it’s worth taking a closer look at some of the other big topics shaping discussions on the floor.

Open banking – a global pursuit?

F-Secure Countercept combines teams of highly skilled threat hunters and incident responders with cutting-edge technology to deliver a comprehensive, real-time managed detection and response (MDR) service.  

The Board of Banking Competition Remedies Ltd (BCR) today announces the results of the Capability and Innovation Fund Pool D grant process.

The Capability and Innovation Fund Pool D is designed to facilitate the commercialisation of financial technology that is relevant to SMEs.

Five £5m grants are awarded to the following organisations:

Agorai, a global platform which provides the turnkey software solutions and data needed for any company to join the AI economy, has been recognized for “Corporate Innovation in AI” at the AIconics awards during London Tech Week.

PanXchange, an OTC exchange and price discovery platform for physical commodities, today announced that it will distribute its proprietary pricing data for hydraulic fracturing proppants, better known as frac sand, through Quandl, a leading provider of financial and alternative data for financial professionals.

Tinkoff introduces Оleg, the world’s first voice assistant created in Russia for finance and lifestyle-related tasks. His mission is to help users navigate within the Tinkoff ecosystem, make customers’ lives simpler and become a friend who is always nearby. Oleg is the first voice assistant built by a financial institution as a proprietary solution.

Who is Oleg

Refinitiv has partnered with Napier, a leading anti-money laundering (AML) and intelligent compliance software provider, to offer a next-generation transaction monitoring solution designed to help corporates and financial institutions tackle money laundering and combat emerging threats in financial crime.

The partnership offers Napier’s advanced analytics, automation and transparent artificial intelligence, backed by Refinitiv’s World-Check Risk Intelligence data, to meet an evolving range of AML compliance requirements.

 PPRO, the cross-border e-payments specialist, is today announcing the acquisition of Latin American payments provider allpago to create the world’s leading platform for local payments. allpago is the preeminent provider of payment and gateway services in Latin America covering 90% of the market ^[1].

Worldline and subsidiary equensWorldline, European leaders in the payments and transactional services industry, have signed a strategic partnership with Nordic Finance Innovation (NFI), the largest fintech executive network in the Nordics. NFI, led by Chris Skinner (Chairman) and Iren Tranvåg (CEO), aims to boost Nordic innovation and collaboration trough joint Nordic and international initiatives and projects. The goal is to strengthen the position of Nordics countries within the global ecosystem.

Establishing new partnerships