Startup LISNR Accelerated By PowerMoves.NOLA And Morgan Stanley

• 9 years 1 month ago
• FinTech StartUps

 LISNR, the creator of SmartTones, a new communication protocol that sends data over audio, recently announced that it closed $10 million in Series B funding. The company's founder attributes participation PowerMoves@Detroit sponsored by Morgan Stanley as a flashpoint in the startup's growth.

Startupbootcamp FinTech Heads to New York to Launch Accelerator Program

• 9 years 1 month ago
• FinTech StartUps

Startupbootcamp, the global family of industry-focused startup accelerators, announced the launch of a brand new Startupbootcamp FinTech program in New York. Following the success of programs in London and Singapore, the evolution of the FinTech program to the US ensures coverage of the three main FinTech hubs around the world.

Apps World 2015 London Announces £150,000 Startup Investment

• 9 years 1 month ago
• Investment, FinTech StartUps, Infrastructure

Investment and startups are a key focus for this year’s Apps World event at London Excel on the 18th and 19th November 2015. Budding entrepreneurs will be given the opportunity to meet with leading digital industry figures and given the opportunity to secure investment for their business. London has been named the number one city in Europe for digital entrepreneurs, startups and scale-ups and this success will be evident at this year’s event... more

Hyperledger wins the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge

• 9 years 2 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

 Innotribe announces today that Hyperledger has won the 2015 Innotribe Startup Challenge, which includes a cash prize of USD 50,000. Hyperledger is a distributed ledger platform tailored for regulated financial institutions to eliminate reconciliation costs, prevent trade breaks and reduce settlement times and risk.

Kerv to Launch First Contactless Payment Ring

• 9 years 3 months ago
• FinTech StartUps, Payments

Kerv, the London fintech startup, today launches the world's first contactless payment ring on kickstarter.com in a bid to raise £77k mass-production capital via crowdfunding. 

Silicon Valley Bank and MasterCard Invite Startups to Apply for Commerce.Innovated.

• 9 years 3 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

 Silicon Valley Bank and MasterCard are inviting startups from across the United States to apply for Commerce.Innovated., a p

NICE Actimize to Support UAE Exchange with Financial Crime Solutions

• 9 years 3 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

SME alternative finance now worth £76 billion a year

• 9 years 4 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

UK SMEs are now using £76 billion of alternative finance*, up 43% from £53 billion a year ago as banks continue to pull back from lending to smaller businesses, says Funding Options, the online business finance supermarket. Funding Options says that alternative lending to SMEs is now equivalent to 46% of the value of traditional term loans and overdrafts, which have fallen to £163 billion**. That represents a fall of 5% from £172 billion a year... more

Factoring: A Powerful Tool in the World of Finance

• 9 years 4 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

Notion Press is extremely proud to present authors Partho Chakraborty and Arvind Sonmale who are creating waves in the finance sector with their book - Factoring: A Powerful Tool in the World of Finance, which is now available to readers all over the world! https://notionpress.com/read/factoring#learnmore

Barclaycard expands range of ‘bPay’ wearable payment devices

• 9 years 5 months ago
• FinTech StartUps, Payments

Barclaycard is to roll out a range of wearable payment devices that can be used to make ‘touch and go’ contactless payments across the UK, following a successful launch of its bPay band last year. Following the successful launch of its bPay band last year, Barclaycard unveils three new wearable payment devices – a wristband, fob and sticker. 

Wolters Kluwer Financial Services Wins More Asian Clients

• 9 years 6 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank and Hatton National Bank sign up to use leading solution for IFRS  Sri Lanka’s two largest private commercial banks – Commercial Bank of Ceylon (CBB) and Hatton National Bank (HNB) – are the latest Asian institutions to have signed up to use the OneSumX Finance solution developed by Wolters Kluwer Financial Services. The firms will use the solution for the implementation of IFRS. They are the first banks in the... more

SWIFT Turns Securities Traffic Data Into Valuable Business Insights For Its Clients

• 9 years 6 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

SWIFT announces the availability of Watch for Securities, a new business intelligence solution that helps securities market participants to monitor and gain valuable business insights from their network traffic. Following the completion of a successful early adopter programme, SWIFT’s Watch for Securities is ready for full scale use by local and global custodians, investment banks, asset managers and broker/dealers.

Innotribe Announced The Winners of Singapore Startup Challenge

• 9 years 7 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

The Innotribe Startup Challenge attendees selected the five finalists from the Asian leg of the Startup Challenge to compete at Sibos Singapore in October. The showcase was held at the Red Dot Design Museum on Thursday 28 May, in partnership with Next Bank Asia. The three early-stage startup finalists are: Trustingsocial are inventing consumer credit rating for emerging markets by applying Big Data and Deep Learning technologies to social,... more

Pendo Systems Is Widely Honored For Its Industry-Leading Technology Pamela Cytron Awarded Game Changer of the Year

• 9 years 7 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

Pendo Systems has been on a roll this year, winning a number of awards from international financial technology publications, the New Jersey Technology Council, and SWIFT. “I am delighted, and also a little surprised at all the attention,” said Pamela Pecs Cytron, founder and CEO of Pendo Systems, which is based in Montclair, NJ.

US And LatAm Treasurers Confident On Business Prospects For Year Ahead

• 9 years 7 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

Almost two-thirds of senior treasury and finance professionals in the US and Latin America region said they feel more confident about their own business’s prospects in the next year. 62% answered 'yes' to the question 'Compared to last year, do you feel more confident about your business’s prospects in the next year?' A similar percentage – 61% – also said they feel more confident about the US's prospects in the year ahead.