CSG introduces Conversational Artificial Intelligence to enable a next generation customer experience
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure
Messaging apps; speech-based assistants such as Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa; and chatbots are entering the marketplace in large scale, all with a goal of enhancing everyday life. Businesses are taking notice; leveraging the technology to analyze peoples’ behavior in order to create a more personalized and efficient customer experience.
Fenergo Launches Remote Account Opening Solution to Accelerate Small Business Emergency Loan Approvals
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Open Banking, Fraud Detection, Compliance, AML and KYC
Fenergo, the leading provider of digital transformation, customer journey and client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, today announces the launch of its digital cloud-based Remote Account Opening solution, ahead of schedule, in order to assist US small businesses in accessing PPP emergency loans.
Ebury approved to provide SME funding under Dutch Government’s Coronavirus business aid scheme
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Covid-19, Transaction Banking, Payments
Ebury, one of Europe’s largest FinTech companies, has been granted approval in the Netherlands to provide SMEs with loans under the Government’s SME Credit Guarantee Scheme1, which was launched in response to the Coronavirus crisis. The scheme, which is available to Dutch businesses with fewer than 250 employees, provides government guarantees for loans of up to €1.5m. The guarantees will cover 75% of the loan amount for up to €2bn of SME...
additiv enables wealth managers to get ahead of the coronavirus crisis
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Wealth Management
additiv, a leading SaaS provider to the wealth management industry, today launches an industry first: a rapid, risk-free route to digital wealth management. The KickStarter TM solution comes at a time when the industry needs it most. Digitization has been gradually impacting the wealth management industry, but as a result of the current pandemic, the speed of change has suddenly accelerated. Customers are demanding the best possible digital...
Envestnet | Yodlee and Charles Schwab Enter Financial Data Access Agreement
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Covid-19, Data
Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and analytics platform powering dynamic, cloud-based innovation for digital financial services, announced today that it has come to terms with Charles Schwab on a financial data access agreement. This will aid in providing the framework for the financial services company’s clients to more securely and effectively allow access to, and use their personal financial information, with...
Santander launches PagoFX in the UK to offer fast, secure and low-cost international transfers with no fees for two months
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking
Banco Santander today announced the launch of PagoFX, a low-cost international money transfer service, in the UK. This new service, available via a mobile app, allows UK residents with a debit card issued by any UK bank or financial entity to seamlessly and quickly send money abroad from their smartphone with low costs, bank-level security and customer support via in-app chat, web and e-mail. In light of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic,PagoFX...
Auriga acquires the award-winning ATM cybersecurity solution Lookwise Device Manager from leading managed security services provider S21sec
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking, M&A Deals
Auriga, a leading supplier of technological solutions for the omnichannel banking and payments industries, announces the acquisition of Lookwise Device Manager (LDM), a modular security platform and cybersecurity business unit from S21sec, a leading European managed security services player. S21sec is part of Sonae IM’s portfolio, a corporate venture capital firm investing in cybersecurity, retail and telecommunications technology companies.
West Africa’s First Data and Analytics ‘Virtual’ Conference Announced
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Data
Data and analytics are central to how modern organisations and governments take decisions and execute plans. Online retailers, companies, governments and tech giants are investing millions in ramping up their ability to collect and analyse data. In these unprecedented times, when companies are struggling to adapt, it becomes all the more important to use data-driven models for decision-making.
Asset Control Makes Senior Appointment To Drive APAC Growth
- 5 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Asset Control, the leading provider of proven, cloud-based data management for financial data analytics and data quality, is pleased to announce that it has hired Daniel Kennedy as its new Head of Sales (Asia Pacific) to accelerate growth in the region. Prior to joining Asset Control, Daniel served as VP – Head of Sales – Global Trading, Buyside & Post Trade at FIS. Daniel led the commercial team responsible for FIS' buyside and sellside...
NICE Actimize Provides Financial Services Organizations a Quick and Effective Response to the CARES Act with the Introduction of KYC Xpress
- 5 years 11 months ago
- AML and KYC
Due to provisions in the recently enacted CARES Act, financial services organizations are facing an unprecedented influx of loan applications and the need to expedite Know-Your-Customer (KYC) operations and procedures, which are often manual and time consuming.
Appian helps banks automate lending for UK COVID crisis
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking
Appian today announced an application built on its Low-Code Automation Platform to support accredited lenders across the UK to manage the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) applications from businesses, as well as the anticipated Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS). The new loan application can automate and check eligibility, process and verify required supporting documents, and make lending decisions...
Allica Bank launches a (1.49%) 12-month fixed term deposit account for retail savers
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking
Allica Bank – the business bank that seeks to empower small and medium sized businesses – has today announced the launch of its first deposit account, for retail savers. The FSCS protected accounts will offer a 1.49% rate of interest, fixed for 12 months. Accounts can be opened online and managed through the bank’s internet banking platform and secure messaging service.
SatchelPay Partners with AMLYZE for Compliance Assurance and Security Boost
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Payments, E-Wallets, Cryptocurrencies
Lithuanian EMI SatchelPay has announced a partnership with AMLYZE, a financial crime prevention platform also based out of Lithuania, aimed at proactively dealing with regulatory compliance and improving the online banking platform’s security. After the Bank of Lithuania moved to resume all of SatchelPay’s services in November of 2019, the fintech firm has shown itself eager to establish a more evolved institutional paradigm, conducive to growth...
Mobile payments service to streamline how UK charities collect donations
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Covid-19
As charities around the world are feeling the unprecedented pressure caused by COVID-19, the UK charity sector is expected to lose over £4 billion in the upcoming weeks and months due to fundraising events being cancelled and places of worship closing their doors. In these uncertain times, mobile technology is enabling charities to collect donations remotely.
Hong Kong’s First Virtual Bank Selects Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking
ZA Bank, the first virtual bank in Hong Kong, has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting as its regulatory reporting software. OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting combines bank data into a single source of data to ensure consistency, reconciliation and accuracy and includes Wolters Kluwer’s Regulatory Update Service. This unique service is maintained by Wolters Kluwer experts who actively monitor regulation in 30 countries.
