LXME wins the Financial Alliance for Women Hackathon
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Platform Technology, Financial
Bags the title of ‘The Female Economy FinTech of the Year’ LXME – India’s first financial platform for women ,won the title ‘The Female Economy Fintech of the Year’ at the Financial Alliance for Women Hackathon. This serves as a global recognition for the start-up that focuses on empowering women with financial freedom.
Tech Tipping Point
New technology often seems fantastic on paper yet has little impact in the life of the average person. A new tipping solution for fuel pump attendants, however, does both. When asked to fill up a fuel tank as motorists do in the movies, few South Africans would know what to do beyond pulling their tank lever from inside the car. Fuel station attendants are as much a part of our culture as braais and ‘howzit’.
Singapore-based IN Financial Technologies Announces the Launch of INFT
Singapore-based IN Financial Technologies launches INFT, a secured one-stop business solutions platform to start-ups and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through filling the financing and banking gap, which allows entrepreneurs to focus on their core businesses.
Finastra and AccessFintech Team Up to Bring Greater Data Transparency to Syndicated Loan Market
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Open Banking, Data, IT Innovations, Financial
Collaboration accelerates data availability for lenders via Fusion LenderComm and Synergy DataLake Finastra, the largest pure-play software vendor that serves the entire financial services industry, and AccessFintech, the data-sharing network optimizing workflow through collaboration, today announced that they have teamed up to bring greater data transparency, efficiency and industry-wide collaboration to the syndicated loan market.
CFPB Penalizes JPay for Siphoning Taxpayer-Funded Benefits Intended to Help People Re-enter Society After Incarceration
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Data Protection, Financial
JPay will pay $6 million in consumer redress and penalties
ASTRI Leverages Privacy-preserving “federated Learning” Technology to Facilitate Credit Scoring for MSME Financing in Collaboration With Standard Chartered, PAOB, Openrice and Freightamigo
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Financial, Technical
The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) joins forces with tech-embracing companies to leverage a privacy-preserving technology, called “Federated Learning”, to develop artificial intelligence (AI) models and output in the form of encrypted parameters that serve as a reference for financial institutions to conduct comprehensive credit analyses for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to help them get... more
Topsource Worldwide Chooses Ebury for International Payroll Payments Partner
● Ebury will support TopSource Worldwide’s growing client base of over a thousand businesses in making payments to thousands of employees ● Ebury’s proposition allows high volume time critical payments in over 140 currencies to 200 countries alongside a dedication to customer service ● Integration of Ebury Mass Payments helps TopSource Worldwide remove barriers to growth for international scale-up clients
US Tech Orbis Partners With Signzy to Automate Customer Onboarding
- 3 years 2 months ago
- APIs, AML and KYC, Financial
US based Orbis Systems which provides turnkey API and technology stack for global brokerages, fintechs and financial institutions has partnered with banking workflow automation platform Signzy to automate customer onboarding. Orbis will leverage Signzy’s AI powered onboarding suite to offer identity verification services for Indian and global customers.
BSO Launches Market-leading FX Trading Routes Between Tokyo, London and Singapore
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Financial, Infrastructure
Global pioneering infrastructure and connectivity provider, BSO, has today announced it will upgrade its Tokyo to London and Tokyo to Singapore connectivity routes. The routes are available from November to new and existing customers, offering market-leading connectivity between the three major equities and FX hubs.
2nd Edition Operational Excellence for Financial Institutions
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Financial
New York, USA | Option to attend virtually 6th – 7th December, 2021| 08:30 EDT
Defi Incubator Dispersion Holdings to Acquire the World’s First Internationally-regulated and Insured Platform for Crypto Trading and Yield Farming
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies, Financial
Dispersion, an incubator specialising in decentralised finance ("DeFi"), is pleased to announce the proposed acquisition of Accru Finance Ltd (“Accru”), which plans to launch the first internationally-regulated and insured platform for the trading and yield farming of cryptocurrencies, for a consideration of £8.75m to be satisfied by the issue of 250 million new ordinary shares in Dispersion.
Haptic Touch Specialist Aito Raises more than €4 Million in Latest Funding Round
- 3 years 2 months ago
- Financial
Company raises further funding round to bring its integrated finger sensing and haptic touch solution to market Largest fundraise to date follows appointment of Nedko Ivanov as CEO Investment led by KBC Focus Fund and FORWARD.One with support from current investors
Fifth annual Absa-OMFIF Africa Financial Markets Index finds that African markets are still innovating amid liquidity struggles.
- 3 years 2 months ago
- IT Innovations, Financial
Innovations in sustainable finance and digital transformation, alongside important initiatives in transparency and regulation, will help reinvigorate Africa’s financial markets as they recover from the impact of Covid-19, according to research in the latest African Financial Markets Index from Absa and OMFIF.
Fintech Unicorn Tipalti Launches in Europe to Eradicate Costly Manual Finance Processes That Restrict Business Growth
Payables automation scale-up wil invest an estimated £100m over a five year period in the region, as it opens European headquarters in London following impressive growth in North America Tipalti, the leading global payables automation platform, announces expansion into Europe with the opening of a London office - delivering the UK's first solution that automates the entire accounts payable (AP) process, while also executing global payments.
Global Outage Further Undermines Facebook’s Fintech Ambitions
Facebook-owned platforms’ global outage last week hinders its plans to launch fintech services.
