Nordic FinTech Giants SDC and Signicat Drive Dramatic Rise in Digital-only Mortgage Applications
- 6 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Infrastructure
Signicat, the first and largest identity assurance provider in the world, and SDC, a full-service IT service partner for the financial sector in the Nordic countries, today announced that 83% of SDC’s Danish banking clients’ customers’ mortgage applications are processed wholly digitally. The fully digital process for application, approval and signing has reduced the time to complete the mortgage process from weeks to days — and sometimes, in... more
Citi Nurtures Hong Kong's Next FinTech Generation
- 6 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
A group of 60 university students from Hong Kong visited Citi Ventures in San Francisco in September, as part of their week-long FinTech-focused entrepreneurship boot camp at Stanford Graduate School of Business in Silicon Valley under the Cyberport University Partnership Programme (CUPP).
Dutch Start-up Kicks Off Worldwide Knowledge Crowdfund Action
- 6 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The Dutch start up Fracaz has a unique business proposition, whereby contributed trivia questions are rewarded with company shares. With a database of more than one million questions the Dutch-French enterpreneur team wants to launch their global app in the course of 2018. At a later stage the question database will
New10 Partners With Mambu To Redefine Dutch SME Lending
- 6 years 9 months ago
- SaaS, FinTech StartUps
Mambu today announced that New10, ABN AMRO’s newly launched FinTech, has selected the SaaS engine to power a range of small and medium enterprise (SME) lending products in the Netherlands. New10, which aims to provide credit decisions within 15 minutes, went from concept to launch within 10 months, in line with ABN AMRO’s vision of digitisation and innovation.
Finastra Continues to Empower Credit Unions, Adding Three New Clients
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking, FinTech StartUps
Finastra has recently added several credit unions to its growing client portfolio, based on its ability to provide a complete suite of lending, enterprise, and retail solutions. Among the latest credit unions added to the client roster are TruMark Financial Credit Union located in Pennsylvania, Central Florida Educators Federal Credit Union and Evansville Teachers Federal Credit Union located in Indiana.
Ohio’s Fintech71 Accelerator Picks Ten Startups for Its Inaugural Cohort
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
After a rigorous global process and rounds of technical and qualitative reviews, Fintech71 has officially chosen its inaugural cohort of financial technology startups. The ten startups were formally announced today at Finovate in New York City. Three European companies, from the U.K., Ireland and Portugal, are among the ten winners.
Dubai Financial Services Authority and Hong Kong's SFC Ink FinTech Agreement
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) in Hong Kong today entered into an agreement to establish a framework of cooperation on financial technology (FinTech) innovation. The agreement will further strengthen the efforts of both authorities to develop an innovations-friendly ecosystem in their respective markets. The signing took place between Mr Ian Johnston, Chief Executive of the DFSA,... more
DFSA and Naseba to co-host 2nd Fintech Summit
- 6 years 10 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) will co-host the 2nd Fintech Summit with Naseba, a business facilitation company, on October 30 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The summit will provide a platform for the region's banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) decision makers to source and evaluate the latest developments in FinTech.
Australian FinTech Launches FinTech Jobs Platform
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
The team behind the highly successful Australian FinTech website have soft-launched their FinTech employment marketplace platform, Australian FinTech Jobs.
FinTech is Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Banking in Africa
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, Infrastructure
FinTech players are increasingly becoming an important part of the fabric of Africa’s financial services ecosystem and the leading banks on the continent are now more urgently seeking to harness technology innovations, collaborate with FinTech start‐ups, and create a platform to scale much faster – to make digital financial services pay.
TechData Expands Successful Enablement Platform to Include New Training Modules
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Tech Data Corporation (Nasdaq: TECD) today introduced Tech Data Cisco Technical BOOST ("Tech BOOST"), a one-on-one technical enablement training solution designed to instruct partners' technical staff on the concepts, tools and delivery methods to effectively deploy and enhance thei
Edgewater Ranzal and Thavron Solutions Create New Alliance
- 6 years 11 months ago
- RegTech, Bitcoins, FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Edgewater Technology-Ranzal, LLC, (Edgewater Ranzal), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edgewater Technology Inc.
Selligent announces John Hernandez as new CEO
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Selligent, a provider of relationship marketing SaaS solutions based on consumer insights, today announced that John Hernandez will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Hernandez was most recently Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President, Service Cloud at Salesforce. His vast organizational, leadership and product expertise is a perfect fit for the leadership role at Selligent.
A Singapore-based Startup COSS Ranked the Highest in ICO Rating History
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
ICO Rating, a company specialized in reviewing the potential investment projects, issued a report on the upcoming fundraising campaign of startup named COSS headquartered in Singapore, awarding it with the highest scale in its chart and report history.
ID Finance and Da Vinci Capital launch $200m fintech fund
- 6 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
ID Finance, the emerging markets fintech company, has joined forces with former Elbrus Capital fund manager Yuri Popov and asset management company Da Vinci Capital to launch FinTech Credit Fund, a $200m debt finance fund aimed at financial technology companies with a focus on alternative lending.
