Open Banking Expo, the leading global community of Open Banking and Open Finance executives responsible for digital transformation across financial services, will host thought leaders and practitioners for the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Confex on 10 March 2022.

Through its partnership with Enova SMB, Nav continues to make it easier for small businesses to access capital

• HELPFUL and Mastercard partner with the Scottish Grocers’ Federation to trial micropayments for Scotland’s single-use drinks containers Deposit Return Scheme
• Scots will get 20p paid into their digital wallet for each single-use plastic bottle returned
• New scheme will reduce Scotland’s CO2e emissions by 160,000 tonnes a year

Tricolor recognized for innovative, A.I. and data-driven approach to reversing economic inequality and enabling financial inclusion for underserved Hispanics

‘Does compliance really kill innovation?’ asks Amir Tabakovic, Co-Chair of Mobey Forum’s AI and Data Privacy Expert Group

Those who closely follow the digital trends impacting financial services will surely remember that, not so long ago, cloud technology and artificial intelligence (AI) were widely touted as the technologies that would protect banks against the rising tide of fintechs, big techs, and the evolving expectations of customers.

Canadian Cryptocurrency Trading Platform’s Oversubscribed Funding Round Attracts High-Profile Investors

Bolero International, the leading cloud-based trade finance digitization experts, announce the signing of UBS as its first major customer for Galileo TPaaS, its new white-labelled trade finance portal-as-a-service solution for banks.

The innovative solution helps financial institutions provide their corporate clients with unrivalled functionality and a transformed digital experience. For the very first time, banks can achieve an accelerated time to market and an overall lower cost of deployment as compared to traditional trade finance digitisation options.

• Recent research by Breathe finds 1 in 10 payroll and HR professionals are still using spreadsheets for payroll calculations, driving human error concerns for a vital function
• A further 11% are relying on manual timesheets to manage and calculate payroll, suggesting high levels of inefficiency
• 51% lack understanding around cloud-based solutions, citing security as top concern

Shawbrook Bank has launched a new digital portal that will help brokers provide clearer, faster decisions to their business customers on asset finance proposals. The move comes as the next in a series of digital capability innovations launched by the specialist lender in recent months.

Powered by ConnectedFi, the new portal’s quick calculator tool will help brokers to provide instant indicative pricing to their customers. The programme also helps to improve the speed, accuracy and simplicity of submitting proposals by pre-populating data available via Companies House.

 SunTec Business Solutions, the world’s #1 pricing and billing company, today announced that it has been chosen by Danske Bank, a Danish multinational bank, for their enterprise-wide Fee Management Program. SunTec will deploy its cloud-agnostic solution, Xelerate, in a SaaS model to modernize the bank’s fee and billing management processes.