Temenos Wins ‘Most Innovative Banking Technology Partner of the Year’ with Stand-Out Digital Wealth Platform
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, has been awarded the ‘Most Innovative Banking Technology Partner of the Year’ in the Private Banking & Wealth Management’s Special Editor’s Award. Temenos Infinity Wealth impressed the judges with its capacity to deliver digital client experiences while driving considerable efficiency gains for banks from a single front-to-back platform.
Swiss bank SEBA with a focus on digital assets now accepts clients from 9 new jurisdictions
More than 10 years after the invention of Bitcoin, there is still a tremendous gap between traditional banking on one side and decentralised finance on the other side. SEBA Bank, an integrated bank focused on digital assets, works as a bridge builder offering a comprehensive range of services in digital as well as in traditional finance. In August, it received a licence from the Swiss Financial Market Authority FINMA – the first time such a... more
The future of money is being rewritten in Asia
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments, Banking, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Disruptions that began with technological and business model innovations in other places are expressed in new ways in Asia. In banking, payments and retail, Asia is leading the wave of disruption. In each case, these changing models, as well as unique situations, are enabling consumer choice, shifting profit margins and creating new opportunities. Technology
Traditional UK Banks are Failing to Engage with Users
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Boomi™, a Dell Technologies business, today announced the results of its research on banks’ engagement with their customers. The research finds almost one in three (30%) UK adults consider the search for a better customer experience in digital interactions the main driver for changing banks. The research quizzed 6,000 adults across the UK and Europe on the customer experience provided by their bank, and how the bank meets their needs.
FinecoBank Adds Support for Garmin Pay to Contactless Payment Devices
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
FinecoBank ("Fineco"), one of the most important FinTech banks in Europe, announces today that it will add Garmin Pay to its growing list of contactless payment devices. Fineco customers can now link their Fineco card to Garmin Pay through the Garmin Connect app for iOS or Android. To unlock the cards on the watch, users will need to set a security passcode to confirm payments. Once linked, customers of the bank will be able to make payments... more
YES Bank Launches API Marketplace
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
India's YES Bank has launched an online marketplace where startups from a host of sectors can pitch tools integrated with the lender's APIs. The YES Scale Marketplace already hosts more than 100 offerings from startups working in areas such as logistics, healthcare, agritech and edtech. The platform is designed to make it simple for startups to jointly go to market with YES Bank, offering their services, complete with banking integrations, to... more
Tinkoff super-app boosts digital leadership in European fintech space
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Tinkoff announced today the launch of Russia’s first super-app – and the first by any European financial services company – a versatile application designed to meet almost any financial, leisure or lifestyle need its users may have. The Tinkoff super-app combines all the components of the Tinkoff ecosystem and adds more capacity for its 10 million customers, whose ranks are set to grow to over 20 million people by 2023. The super-app is the next... more
New NatWest app features gives customers more control over their money
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Open Banking, Banking
Customers using the NatWest app will now be able to easily see where their money is going with the new ‘spending’ tab which will show them how much they’re spending from their current account each month on bills, transport or entertainment, helping them stay in control of their money. If the app doesn’t get it right first time, they’ll be able to change categories easily.
NBK to integrate its money, FX and capital markets business with Murex’s MX.3 platform
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
The National Bank of Kuwait’s (NBK) has signed a contract with Murex, an industry leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for money, FX and capital markets, to implement a full replacement of its legacy IT systems at Group Treasury and Investments with the MX.3 platform.
Yolt Chief Moves Back to ING
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking, People Moves
Frank Jan Risseeuw, CEO of account aggregation platform Yolt, is moving across to ING to take charge of the Dutch bank's 'Model Bank' strategy. One of the cornerstones of ING’s Think Forward Strategy projects, Risseeuw will lead the integration of four ING Retail countries to a new single banking platform.
CEO of Yolt moves across ING after four years of building award winning open banking scale-up
Today Yolt announces that its Chief Executive Officer, Frank Jan Risseeuw, will leave the company after building the brand from an innovation concept to the market leading, award-winning personal finance app, available in three markets in Europe. In his new role, Frank Jan will move to Madrid to lead another of ING’s ambitious change programmes, which will include integrating four of ING’s Retail countries into a new scalable banking platform.
Integral FX ADV down 6.6% MoM in November
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Asset Management, Banking
Integral, the technology partner trusted by leading banks, brokers, and asset managers to help them outperform their competition in the foreign exchange market, reported today average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totaled $34 billion in November 2019. No other platform reaches as many, as varied, and as comprehensive a set of FX products and participants as Integral OCXTM. Banks, brokers, and asset managers now share direct... more
Nomura Expands Pico Relationship to Accelerate Growth of Global FX and Rates Businesses
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Trading Systems, Banking
Nomura, Asia’s global investment bank, has selected Pico, a leading provider of technology services for the financial markets community globally, to build, host and manage a new platform supporting its latest innovation programs in foreign exchange (FX) and rates trading businesses. The Nomura FX trading platform is co-located in data centres based in New Jersey (NY4), London (LD4) and Tokyo (TY3). With more efficient processing, Nomura’s... more
Wolters Kluwer Survey Points to Substantial Risk and Compliance Concerns for U.S. Lenders
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Notable regulatory compliance and risk challenges remain high in a number of key areas for U.S. banks and credit unions. That’s according to results of Wolters Kluwer’s eagerly anticipated 2019 Regulatory & Risk Management Indicator survey.
Canadian Neo Bank Koho Extends Series B by C$25 Million
- 6 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Drive Capital and National Bank of Canada have invested C$25 million in Canadian neo banking startup Koho. The new funding is an extension of the startup's earlier $42 million fundraising round led by Portag3 Ventures. Billed as an alternative to a traditional banking experience, Koho users are furnished with a reloadbale Visa card and and a mobile app which offers real-time insights into money management, instant cashback, round-ups, and... more
