Trustly appoints Louise Nylén as new CMO
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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)
- 5 years 6 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’
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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
- 5 years 6 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.
The Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group Welcomes Largest Investment Bank in Latin America to its Organising Committee
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Investment, Banking, Technical
The Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, which brings together major post-trade industry participants and regulators to drive the transformation of distributed ledger technologies within the post-trade landscape, welcomes BTG Pactual the Brazil based investment bank to its organising committee.
Diebold Nixdorf Names Zeeshan Naqvi As Vice President, Treasurer
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Banking, Retail Banking, People Moves
Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in driving connected commerce for the banking and retail industries, today announced that Zeeshan Naqvi has joined the company as vice president, treasurer. Naqvi will report directly to Jeffrey Rutherford, senior vice president, chief financial officer, and will be responsible for leading and overseeing the company's global treasury, risk management and customer financing functions.
John Pountain joins Xinja as CTO
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Banking, People Moves
Xinja Bank, an independent Australian neobank built from the ground up for mobile, has appointed ‘Bank of the future’ alumnus – John Pountain – as Chief Technology Officer. Mr Pountain, who worked at New York-based neobank, Moven, and before that was at BT Financial and Macquarie Group, is helping build Xinja Bank, with technology that will change banking for Australians who never want to walk into a bank branch or join a bank queue.
BBVA has today unveiled the first set of finalists in the eleventh edition of BBVA Open Talent – the world’s biggest fintech competition.
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Banking
More than 800 start-ups from across the globe have entered this latest edition of BBVA Open Talent, with 90 countries represented. From that list 56 have now been provisionally shortlisted as finalists, all of which come from BBVA’s core operating countries.
Sberbank makes letter-of-credit business of legal entities available online
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Banking
Sberbank has implemented a feature on remote banking services on letters of credit in Sberbank Business Online’s system. The service has no analogues on the Russian market. It is already used by more than 600 legal entities. Clients can create applications on letters of credit online and independently send them to the bank to be processed. The whole document flow become electronic: clients can send letters on current deals, make changes, submit... more
LGPS Central partners with KAS BANK on Cost Transparency Collection & Reporting solution
- 5 years 6 months ago
- Banking
KAS BANK, the specialist securities services to UK institutional pension schemes, have partnered with asset manager, LGPS Central Limited, for cost transparency collection and reporting services. LGPS Central Limited, one of eight pooling vehicles across England and Wales, is currently responsible for the management and stewardship of approximately £20bn of assets for nine midlands-based Local Government Pension Scheme funds. The nine funds have... more
