SEBA receives FINMA banking and securities dealer licence allowing it to close the gap between traditional and digital asset markets
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Banking
SEBA Crypto AG (SEBA) announced it has successfully obtained a banking and securities dealer licence* from the Swiss regulator FINMA. This represents a milestone for the entire digital asset market ecosystem, as a new secure and integrated access point to the crypto world is now available. The 2018 founded start-up, led by CEO Guido Bühler, has successfully built a licenced and supervised bank within 17 months. The official go-live is expected... more
Meniga appoints Arpit Kaushik as COO
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking, People Moves
Meniga welcomes Arpit Kaushik as Meniga’s new Chief Operating Officer. Based out of Meniga’s London office, Arpit will be responsible for engineering, professional services, infrastructure services, global sales, and operations. For the past decade, Arpit has been building and developing high-performance teams within the technology sector in senior roles including Digital General Manager, Banking & Capital Markets at DXC Technology, General... more
Onfido joined by Monese, Seedrs, Curve and B-Social in testing portable identity
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Retail Banking
Onfido announce today that leading UK FinTechs Monese, Seedrs, Curve and B-Social are joining with us in the FCA regulatory sandbox test, alongside tech partners Evernym and Deloitte, to demonstrate that there’s a better, safer and more secure way to make identity verification work for both customers and businesses.
TruNarrative provides cutting-edge compliance platform for FinTech money innovator Tally®
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Digital Identity, Banking
Financial crime and compliance software firm TruNarrative has been appointed by cutting-edge banking app Tally®, to enhance the customer onboarding and identity verification processes. Tally® is the first banking app to offer consumers an alternative physical asset currency for everyday spending – where one Tally® is one milligram of vaulted gold owned by the customer – through the Tally® platform and debit Mastercard®, like a regular bank... more
Standard Chartered Bank joined with SAP Ariba to bring financial supply chain solutions to the world’s largest digital business network
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Standard Chartered Bank and SAP Ariba today announced a strategic collaboration to make the Bank’s financial supply chain solutions easily accessible to businesses in the Asia Pacific region through Ariba Network, the world’s largest digital business network connecting more than 4.2 million companies in 190 countries.
Avaloq successfully onboards Banque Morval onto Intesa Sanpaolo’s BPaaS solution in just nine months
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank (Suisse) SA and Avaloq have successfully onboarded Banque Morval onto Avaloq's Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) solution in just nine months. The merger of Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank (Suisse), the Italian Intesa Sanpaolo group’s Swiss private banking subsidiary, and Banque Morval was completed in April last year and created the new legal entity Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank (Suisse) Morval.
Trustly appoints Louise Nylén as new CMO
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Online Banking
Trustly, the leading online banking payments company, announces today the appointment of Louise Nylén as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The CMO position is a newly established role which entails overall responsibility for Trustly’s marketing and brand-related activities. Louise Nylén will report to the CEO, be part of the management team and play an important role in driving Trustly’s growth towards becoming the next-generation global payments... more
Emirates NBD enhances data-driven decision making as first global bank to leverage SAP Financial Services Data Platform
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East, has partnered with SAP, a market leader in enterprise software, to become the first bank globally to implement SAP Financial Services Data Platform. It is powered by SAP in-memory data platform, SAP HANA and can now deliver customer intelligence across all Emirates NBD Group market segments, entities and countries.
Bank Hapoalim Opts for Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX Software for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR)
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Risk Management
Bank Hapoalim, one of Israel’s largest banks has selected Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX solution for Risk Management, specifically using the software for managing its credit risk profile.
Sberbank analyses myths about consumer lending ‘bubble’
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Under the SberData project (Sberbank's initiative on processing and analysing big data), Sberbank has researched the consumer lending market: wage dynamics, interest rates, period and amount of loans, refinancing, expense structure and other aspects. The fast growth of retail loans over the past two years caused concerns over a possible bubble on this market. Data of Sberbank, Bank of Russia, Rosstat and lending bureaux don’t support the... more
Revolut integrates with Xero to launch new expense management tool
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Revolut for Business has today launched a new Expense Management tool, designed to help growing businesses by removing the hassle from handling expenses. The innovative fintech has created a simple and intuitive tool with everything in one place, ensuring that no card expenses will be unaccounted for. Business owners now have the ability to easily approve or reject team expenses, an area that has traditionally been difficult to manage. These... more
Finastra lands core cloud deal with neobank, Gravity
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking
Finastra has today announced that Gravity, a new UK-based bank seeking authorization to serve SMEs with lending, credit card and deposit services, has selected Fusion Essence in the cloud for its end-to-end core banking capabilities.
finleap gears up to become Europe’s leading financial technology provider
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Retail Banking
finleap strengthens its position as a fintech SaaS provider to financial institutions and introduces its new business unit finleap connect. The fintech platforms finreach solutions and infinitec solutions will become part of this business unit. Furthermore, the existing finleap team will proceed with its work as finleap assets and finleap build.
Asia is ahead of Europe by the popularity of P2P lending
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Alternative Finance, P2P Lending
The analysis of search queries related to P2P lending, which was conducted by the international fintech holding Robocash Group, has shown that relative popularity of P2P lending in many Asian countries is much higher than in some European countries.
Banking on your voice
- 4 years 8 months ago
- Banking, IT Innovations
NatWest customers will be able to bank from home using just their voice with the launch of a pilot using innovative voice technology enabling customers to do banking through the Google Assistant on their Google Home smart speaker or smartphone. The pilot of 500 customers will run for three months.
