FICO Predictions: Pressure Mounts on Banks to Exceed Customer Demand in Evolving Industry
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, Infrastructure
Darryl Knopp, Senior Director of Global Marketing at analytics company FICO is looking ahead at how customer expectations of financial services are likely to change in 2022 and what this means for banks. 1 – Creating a Unified Experience: Mapping out the Entire Customer Journey
African Development Bank Board Approves $170 Million for Investment in Nigeria’s Digital and Creative Start-ups
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, FinTech StartUps
The investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises Program (i-DICE) is a Federal Government of Nigeria initiative promoting investment in digital and creative industries
EIB-supported Gender Lens Investment Fund Alitheia IDF Announces Final Close at $100 Million
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
The fund has a mandate to plug the over $42 billion investment gap between male and female entrepreneurs as a means of catalysing the economic power of African women
Investment Teams to Glean Information and Trading Advantage from Aiera and Glue42 Partnership
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Trading Systems, Investment
Partnership simplifies and speeds up research, investment and trading workflows of research analysts, fundamental investors and quants, significantly improving the user experience directly on the financial desktop.
Season Two Ventures Closes Twin B2B Investments in India: Backs Twixor, Vitraya
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
Twixor raises $2.4M & Vitraya Technologies raises $2M in total respectively Season Two Ventures continues its India investment spree into AI and ML, the latest catches being customer experience automation platform, Twixor and InsureTech platform Vitraya Technologies. Season Two has committed to an investment of $1 Million in Twixor, and $1.5 Million into Vitraya.
Cartwright Ehances Pension Risk Offering with Moody’s Analytics
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, Consultancy
Specialist advisory firm extends license of PFaroe™ DB platform Moody’s Analytics today announced that Cartwright, the independent privately-owned pension actuarial, investment consulting, administration and consultancy firm, has extended its license of the PFaroe DB solution, a risk analytics platform for DB pensions.
Britehorn Partners Advises Action Title Research on Acquisition by Strattam Capital
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
Britehorn Partners is pleased to announce that its client, Action Title Research, has been acquired by Strattam Capital - a leading private equity firm based in Austin, Texas, that invests in independent technology companies across North America.
Mirae Asset Global Investments lists Autonomous and Electric Vehicles ETF via its thematic investment brand Global X in Hong Kong
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
In the first quarter of 2021, global electric vehicle sales rose by around 140%, according to the recent “Global EV Outlook 2021”, conducted and published by the International Energy Agency. This massive surge in demand is driven by more than 500,000 electric vehicles sold in China alone.1 Building on that demand, Mirae Asset Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited issued an ETF via its thematic investment brand, Global X ETFs, giving... more
Smartlands Changes name to Definder, Reflecting Big Goal to Become the Largest Tokenization Platform Globally
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
The company aims to expand beyond real estate and agriculture and tokenize a $1tn worth of assets Smartlands, a leading international asset tokenization platform, announced today that it is changing its name to Definder at the holding company level to better reflect the company’s move into ever more different spheres of business and new geographical areas.
How Innovation by Tech Start-ups Including Insurtechs Helps Markets to Flourish
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Insurtech, Investment, FinTech StartUps
Insurtech companies have attracted another record level of investment, with investment in insurtech start-ups exceeding the US$10 billion mark for the first time in any one year on record, according to 2021 Q3 data
New Wave of Digitally Savvy Graduates to Enter the Fintech Space
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, FinTech StartUps
LOCAL FINTECH SUPPORTS STUDENTS WITH CHANCE TO WIN BURSARY During the pandemic, UK firms have invested considerable sums in their technology as they cater for employees working from home. Data from the Office for National Statistics suggests this trend is continuing as investment in new technologies is still gaining traction – increasing by more than 7% from Q4 2019 to Q2 2021.*
ABN AMRO and Receeve Cement Strategic Partnership for Collections & Recovery with €4m Venture Investment
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment
receeve, the innovation leader in collections & recovery technology, is proud to announce our newest customer, ABN AMRO, the third-largest
4DX Ventures and Flutterwave Co-invest in Francophone Africa Payments Processor CinetPay
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, Payments
$2.4 million seed round marks prolific VC’s first fintech investment in the region alongside fintech unicorn’s first institutional investment
Drawbridge Names Edna M. Conway to Board of Directors
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, Cybersecurity
Security and Risk Officer Microsoft Azure to Provide Expertise to Support Drawbridge’s Continued Growth
Waverton Adopts SEI Wealth Platform
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Investment, Management
Technology and Operational Outsourcing Enables Efficiency and Scale to Support Ambitions SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) announced today that Waverton Investment Management will adopt the SEI Wealth PlatformSM (SWP), a fully-integrated, single-infrastructure technology and operational outsourcing solution that enables organisational transformation and digitisation of the wealth management experience.
