Personal finance comparison website GoBear and smartphone - based alternative credit scoring provider CredoLab announced today the launch of Easy Apply, a smartphone app that enables banks, financial institutions and lenders to extend credit to a larger pool of customers while keeping risks in check. The partnership signifies an important headway in making financial services accessible to more than 110M1 underbanked people in emerging Southeast... more Read more »
TIBCO Software Inc., a global leader in integration, API management, and analytics, is hosting select partners and customers at the 2018 TIBCO Scribe Conference in Boston, where attendees will hear about the evolution of TIBCO Cloud™ Integration (TCI), including the latest addition to TCI: TIBCO Scribe®. Read more »
This morning, we reported Mastercard’s financial results for the third quarter of 2018. We are pleased to deliver another very strong quarter, delivering EPS growth of 36 percent versus last year. Read more »
iPipeline – a leading provider of next-generation solutions and services to the life and pensions market – today announces that Mortgage Advice Bureau has adopted their protection sales support tool, PreQuo and their award-winning protection sourcing solution, SolutionBuilder. PreQuo provides an immediate indicative cost of protection which can be used as an interactive protection sales aid. It allows advisers to quickly research protection... more Read more »
Solactive is pleased to announce the launch of its Solactive Broad Global Developed Government Bond TR EUR Index, a broad benchmark engineered to replicate the performance of the global developed sovereign local currency debt markets. With this Benchmark Index, Solactive is able to substantially extend its coverage in the sovereign debt space, allowing asset managers to gain exposure to the developed sovereign debt market which has a size of... more Read more »
A new white paper outlines lessons learned in banking the unbanked and creating a path to prosperity. Read more »
Alipay has announced today that it will launch new initiatives to provide more digital tools, safeguards, loan services and training to further improve efficiencies and support the growth and digitization of small and micro businesses (SMBs) in China. Read more »
Analysts Explore Digital Leadership and Emerging Technologies for Financial Services at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, October 29-November 1 on the Gold Coast, Australia By 2030, 80 percent of heritage financial services firms will go out of business, become commoditized or exist only formally but not competing effectively, according to Gartner, Inc. These firms will struggle for relevance as global digital platforms, fintech companies and other... more Read more »
Brand new research from RBR reveals that the number of payment cards in circulation worldwide reached 15 billion at the end of 2017, with UnionPay continuing to hold the largest share Financial inclusion initiatives drive growth in card issuing Read more »
ICS BANKS Notification System is created to provide the bank with a notification mechanism where certain messages or advertisements will be displayed for certain customers, once their accounts or customer number are keyed in the system, in order to be addressed in a proper way. For example, if a customer is entitled for a new credit card, the bank can add a specific notification where the notification will be displayed once his customer/ account... more Read more »
PayActiv, the leading provider of employment-based holistic financial wellness services, is announcing the availability of cash access of earned wages at any Walmart for PayActiv employee members. This will enable millions of workers across the country the flexibility to access wages for critical needs any time their local Walmart Money Center / Walmart Service Desk is open with no delay in transferring funds and without the need for a bank... more Read more »
Online financial education specialist, Tradimo has created a Derivatives Nanodiploma™ which prepares its graduates worldwide for the Deutsche Börse “Certified Derivatives Trader” exam - a prestigious derivatives qualification which is recognised by the FCA, amongst other leading industry bodies. Read more »
CUSIP Global Services (CGS) today announced the expansion of its CUSIP Options service to now include futures and options on futures for the North American market. The expansion was made possible through an extension of the CGS 2009 partnership with Euromoney TRADEDATA, a financial information provider specialising in futures and options products. Building on the partnership, CGS will now also assign CUSIPs and CGS ISINs to all standard options... more Read more »
This year Lithuania got the spotlight as the country that has piqued the interest of many UK-based fintech companies. Amidst the uncertainty of Brexit, more and more UK companies are rushing to open offices on the continent. To operate in the European Union (EU), fintech companies must obtain a license issued by any member country. Read more »
PwC and UKBlackTech have joined forces in a drive to encourage greater diversity in the technology sector and to inspire more young people from a range of backgrounds to pursue careers in technology. Read more »
