GIFT City receives huge interest for Global FinTech Hackathon “Sprint 01: BankTech”
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, IT Innovations
GIFT City & International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) jointly launched I-Sprint’21 as the global FinTech Hackathon Series on the 7 October 2021. A series of Hackathons cutting across various financial services sectors have been planned under the banner of I-Sprint’21. Sprint01: BankTech, the first of the series focused on the "Banking" sector has been launched. It is being conducted virtually and is open to eligible FinTechs... more
BBVA and Sella Enter Into an Open Finance Strategic Partnership
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Open Banking, Banking
Thanks to Banca Sella’s new "Banking As A Service" offer, the Spanish group will allow its customers to make local payments in Italy. As part of a broader international collaboration, Fabrick’s Open finance platform will serve some corporate customers of BBVA
Arbuthnot Latham Brings Apple Pay to Clients
A safer, more secure and private way to pay with iPhone and Apple Watch.
Railsbank Shapes the Future of Finance with Launch of New Category and Vision at Web Summit
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking
The new Embedded Finance Experiences category is a vital evolution of embedded finance, unlocking deeper engagement for consumer brands
iwoca’s SME Expert Index: SMEs Focus on Growth and Turn to Recovery Loan Scheme
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Growing the business is the most important reason cited by SMEs accessing finance, overtaking ‘managing day to day cash flow’ for the first time this year. Prior to the Recovery Loan Scheme being extended, nearly 40% of brokers saw client demand for the scheme increase compared to Q2. iwoca’s SME Expert Index provides regular snapshots of the lending market from the perspective of industry experts .
Verto and ClearBank Partner to Better Serve UK and European SMEs with Cross-border Payments
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Verto, the B2B payments platform and currency exchange marketplace for SMEs, has partnered with ClearBank, the cloud-based clearing bank, to create seamless cross-border payments solutions for underserved UK and European businesses.
Klarna Acquires PriceRunner to Strengthen Banking Offer for its 90m Global Consumers
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Klarna, a leading global retail bank today announces it has signed an agreement to acquire PriceRunner. PriceRunner will bring new features in the form of product reviews, rich product discovery and price comparisons to the Klarna app to enhance the shopping, payments and banking experience for consumers globally.
Cambodian Bank, Hattha Bank Selects Temenos Cloud-Native Digital Banking Platform to Speed up Lending to 100,000 SMEs
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Digital banking, Banking
Temenos Infinity’s ready-to-go digital banking platform will allow Hattha Bank to quickly launch SME banking and support Cambodia’s Covid-19 economic recovery Seamless digital onboarding will allow the bank to rapidly grow its customer base and provide vital funding and banking services to 100,000 SMEs within five years
Vladislav Kreynin Speaks about Key Trends in martech at Web Summit 2021
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Vladislav Kreynin, senior vice president and director of the Marketing and Communications Department at Sberbank, is participating in Web Summit 2021, the world’s premier tech conference, taking place in Lisbon on November 1-4. On the first day of the conference, he hosted a key session titled “What to Expect in Marketing and Martech Over the Next Five Years?”, where he covered key trends in marketing. During the roundtable, Kreynin outlined... more
The Payments Association Tips Open Banking as its Next Big Bet, Driving Industry Competition and Innovation
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Open Banking, Payments, Banking
Latest community insight draws back the curtain on open banking, the game changing approach to data, its major players globally and impact on the industry
Tradeteq Connect Becomes a New Trade Risk Distribution Channel for Commerzbank, Aka and Texel
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, Data Protection, Data
Tradeteq, the leading technology provider for bank asset distribution, together with Commerzbank AG (Commerzbank), AKA Ausfuhrkredit-Gesellschaft mbH (AKA), and Texel Finance Limited (the Texel Group) have announced that following a successful proof of concept phase, Tradeteq Connect, an expansion of the firm’s existing platform to support distributing bank risk resulting from trade products such as letters of credit (LCs) and guarantees, has... more
Cynergy Bank Provides £10M Funding Line to First Circle Group
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Investment, Banking
First Circle Group, a fast-emerging business specialising in manufacturing rigid plastic containers, has received a £10m plant and machinery loan and receivables funding facility from Cynergy Bank. This is a new client to the Asset Based Lending (ABL) division of Cynergy Bank which launched in September. Headquartered in Newport Pagnell, First Circle Group currently operates five sites across the UK and Ireland supplying over 700 million rigid... more
PPS and ViaBill Join Forces to Bring BNPL to Shoppers In-store and Online
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Payments, Money Transfers, Banking
The BNPL provider will utilise the issuer processor’s in-depth pan-European experience to drive its expansion into new EMEA markets. PPS, an Edenred company, today announces that it is supporting ViaBill with the rollout of its card-based BNPL solution, offering customers access to ViaBill credit through physical and virtual Mastercard cards.
Rasmus Bagger-Petersen Joins NetDania Management Team from Saxo
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Management, Banking, People Moves
Rasmus Bagger-Petersen has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of NetDania and will be a member of the Danish fintech firm’s management team.
Dwolla Adds Former Deloitte Partner to Board of Directors
- 3 years 10 months ago
- Banking, People Moves
Dwolla, a fintech providing sophisticated account to account payment solutions for innovative businesses, announces the addition of Emily Rollins to the company’s board of directors. Rollins brings more than 30 years of experience from the finance industry to Dwolla’s board, alongside expertise in driving high-level growth and expansion.
