Finastra Renews Commitment to Hong Kong Fintech Community With New Cyberport Presence
- 5 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Finastra has established a new office space at Cyberport in Hong Kong as part of an evolution of its workplace strategy. This strategic move will place Finastra at the heart of Hong Kong’s fintech community, enabling it to build relationships with new and existing partners and facilitating innovative co-creation.
Zumo to Invest in Female Tech Talent
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Zumo, Scotland’s cryptocurrency wallet and payments platform, has grown its employee numbers again with the addition of four female appointments in key roles and a total of seven new team members, taking the team to 24 with recruiting still open for another five new roles. The most recent appointments come shortly after Zumo’s £1.6m Seedrs crowdfund, and the launch of their app’s cryptocurrency exchange functionality.
iwoca Makes Its “Buy Now, Pay Later” Product Free for SMEs During Lockdown
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Covid-19, Lending, Payments
iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, announces that its invoice payments product – iwocaPay – will be free throughout the UK’s second national lockdown to support small businesses impacted by coronavirus.1
Payer Launches Beta Test Program to Revolutionize Customer Registration in B2B E-commerce
- 5 years 9 months ago
- E-Commerce
Payer Financial Services (Payer) has developed a new registration product that revolutionizes how customer relationships are made between companies online. The product enables e-commerce merchants to verify new customers as trustworthy so they can make their purchases with ease. Today, Payer launches a beta test program with several B2B merchants.
UnaFinancial: Philippine Neobanks Will Serve 50 Million Customers by 2025
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Banking
According to the analysts of the international financial group UnaFinancial, neobanks in the Philippines will serve 51.4 million customers by 2025. At the same time, their cumulative loan portfolio will amount to $15 billion and the number of active deposit accounts will reach 10 million.
McAfee Sees COVID-19-Themed Threats and Powershell Malware Surge in Q2 2020
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Covid-19, Cybersecurity
McAfee Corp. (Nasdaq: MCFE), the device-to-cloud cybersecurity company, released its McAfee Labs Threats Report: November 2020, examining cybercriminal activity related to malware and the evolution of cyber threats in Q2 2020. During this period, McAfee saw an average of 419 new threats per minute as overall new malware samples grew by 11.5%.
Dosh and Button to Provide More Shoppers with Frictionless Online and Offline Cash Back Experiences
- 5 years 9 months ago
- E-Commerce
Dosh, the fastest-growing cash back platform that connects thousands of brands and retailers to millions of consumers, announced the expansion of its integration of Button, the leading mobile commerce technology company, on its platform. By integrating Button’s leading mobile commerce capabilities into Dosh’s SDK, financial services companies using Dosh to power their rewards programs will be able to provide consumers with instant cash back...
SteelEye Named Best Buy-Side Market Surveillance Platform
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Compliance
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has won the Best Market Surveillance Platform in the 2020 WatersTechnology Buy-Side Technology Awards. The award reflects the flexibility of SteelEye’s surveillance platform, which enables firms to strengthen their market abuse detection, improve their oversight and continuously demonstrate compliance across all asset classes.
Koinal Strikes a Deal with Huobi for Simpler & Faster Cryptocurrency Purchase
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Cryptocurrencies
London-based cryptocurrency firm Koinal reaches agreement with Huobi to integrate its fast checkout system.
Trulioo Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Authentication Technology, People Moves
Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, announced today that Leigh Ramsden will join the company as Chief Financial Officer, effective November 16, 2020. Mr. Ramsden brings more than 20 years of financial analysis and progressive leadership experience to Trulioo and will succeed Anne Lawlor, who will be retiring after serving the company for more than eight years. Ms. Lawlor will remain an advisor to the company to ensure a...
FICO Announces New Virtual Event, “Taking Control: Digital Transformation in the New Normal”
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Covid-19, Banking, FinTech StartUps
The latest FICO Virtual Event – Taking Control: Digital Transformation in the New Normal – will be a week-long event beginning Monday, November 9, 2020.
Africa Fintech Summit 2020 and APO Group Announce Partnership to Drive Opportunities in Africa Tech
- 5 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Dedalus Global and Ibex Frontier are pleased to announce a strategic partnership with APO Group for Africa Fintech Summit 2020 (www.AfricaFintechSummit.com). The partnership is intended to catapult the growth of Africa’s tech ecosystem, one that received over US$2B in VC funding in 2019, to a global audience. Supporting this effort are 60 panelists and Summit keynotes by Hon.
Jonathan Jacobi Joins smartKYC as Business Development Director
- 5 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
smartKYC, providers of award-winning AI-enabled KYC and third-party risk intelligence technology, announced the appointment of Jonathan Jacobi as Business Development Director. Reporting to CEO Dermot Corrigan, Jonathan will help grow and support smartKYC’s global expansion plans.
FIO Integrates ShapeShift, Coinomi, ChangeNOW and Mycelium
- 5 years 9 months ago
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) has announced the game-changing integration of leading wallets and non-custodial service providers, ShapeShift, Coinomi, ChangeNOW and Mycelium. The use of FIO protocol will now be extended to over a million more cryptocurrency users and enables people to participate in the blockchain ecosystem without needing complex public addresses.
ING to Appoint Ljiljana Čortan as CRO
- 5 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
ING announced today that Ljiljana Čortan will be appointed chief risk officer of ING. Ljiljana Čortan until recently served as chief risk officer of HypoVereinsbank – UniCredit Bank (HVB) in Germany. She will succeed Steven van Rijswijk, who was appointed CEO of ING effective 1 July 2020.
