Global FinTech launches digital money education programme in readiness for Covid-19 lockdown exit
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Paysend, a global FinTech based in UK, has started an educational program to help customers improve their knowledge about money in the digital world through a series of articles, blogs and videos based on a behaviour change model that has been created with a group of experts in FinTech strategy. The programme starts with the launch of a video campaign and a white paper which has been re-leased worldwide through press and social media outlets.
Bambu Taps Next-Generation FIS Platform to Bring Mobile-Only Banking Services to Unbanked Consumers
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Banking
FIS™ (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial services technology, announced today that fintech startup Bambu has selected FIS’ next-generation Modern Banking Platform to power a new digital banking solution for U.S. unbanked and underbanked.
“Digital Sureties” – Over 30 Italian Organizations Together For The Project Promoted By CeTIF - Cattolica University, SIA And Reply
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Financial
More than thirty organizations in the insurance, banking and finance, public and business sectors, as well as associations and institutions, including Guardia di Finanza (the Italian finance police), are participating in the national " Fideiussioni Digitali” (Digital Sureties) project promoted by CeTIF, SIA and Reply, in collaboration with the Bank of Italy and IVASS, to digitize the management of sureties using blockchain technology.
BMLL builds Derived Data desktop application on OpenFin
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Data
BMLL Technologies, the data engineering and analytics firm, today announced a collaboration with OpenFin, the operating system (OS) for finance, to build their Derived Data desktop application on OpenFin’s OS.
New research from MMC Ventures concludes activity and investment remain strong in the UK blockchain ecosystem, despite the ‘crypto winter’
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Blockchain
New research released today from venture capital fund MMC Ventures, shows that while 2,700 blockchain companies have been created in the UK since 2008, only 9% of these have been equity funded. Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) had been the ‘go-to’ source of funding for blockchain companies until early 2018.
Allica Bank appoints Steve McGregor as Head of Application Engineering
- 5 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Allica Bank, the business bank on a mission to empower small and medium-sized businesses to succeed, has today announced the appointment of Steve McGregor as Head of Application Engineering. Steve will build the first in-house, fully immersed software engineering team at Allica Bank. The new team will be the vanguard of the bank's development of digital financial services and tools, all designed specifically to meet the needs of small and medium...
Curve and Mastercard extend their partnership
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Curve, the banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and even smarter app, has today announced a new expanded partnership with Mastercard that sees Curve become a principal member of scheme.
Deposit Solutions achieves new milestones: 150 partner banks and 25 billion euros in transmitted deposits
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Open Banking
Hamburg-based FinTech company Deposit Solutions has announced that it has reached new milestones in 2020. The company’s Open Banking platform has now transmitted a total volume of 25 billion euros in savings deposits, up from 16 billion euros 12 months ago. The growth was driven by the strong B2B business, with banks such as Deutsche Bank, Merck Finck Privatbankiers, M.M.Warburg as well as comparison portals and other partners using the platform...
Full access to Keesing’s identity verification for essential organisations to address COVID-19 pandemic
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Covid-19, Digital Identity
Keesing Technologies, the leading global identity verification provider, announced that it is making its digital identity verification services and databases freely available to essential organisations that are in need of accurate identity proofing while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Keesing’s trusted identity verification will support these organisations in their global commitment to stop the spread of COVID-19 by enabling them to screen...
Avaloq named a Digital Wealth Management Platform Leader
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Wealth Management
Avaloq announced today that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Wealth Management Platforms, Q1 2020 report. The evaluation ranks vendors in the categories of Leaders, Strong Performers, Contenders and Challengers, and is a highly regarded assessment of the top vendors in the digital wealth management platforms market.
Temenos and Microsoft Partner to Offer Fast Access to AI-Driven Temenos Financial Crime Mitigation SaaS Solution to Help Banks Combat Surge in Cybercrime During Covid-19
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Banking
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced today a joint effort with Microsoft to enable access to its AI-powered, Financial Crime Mitigation (FCM) SaaS solution to allow banks to protect both their customers and their organization from financial crime increase during the pandemic, particularly as banks have moved to remote working to protect their staff. Temenos AI-powered, Financial Crime Mitigation SaaS solution based on...
Hello Soda launches single API platform; Sodium
- 5 years 12 months ago
- APIs, Digital Identity
Global identity specialist, Hello Soda, launches a new single API platform to simplify the delivery of its suite of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-money Laundering (AML) and fraud prevention solutions. Hello Soda identified that many stakeholders were having difficulty implementing multiple identity verification solutions independently. Its developers have responded to this challenge and the lack of cross-solution data analysis to help perform...
TransFICC Secures New Investment From AlbionVC, ING Ventures and HSBC
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Investment
TransFICC, the specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has closed its Series A investment round for £5.75 million. Led by AlbionVC, it included new strategic investments from ING Ventures and HSBC. The new investors join existing shareholders, Citi, Illuminate Financial, Main Incubator (the R&D unit of Commerzbank Group) and The FinLab.
Horizon Software announces outsourcing contract for market making on the Hellenic Energy Exchange Market
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Trading Systems, SaaS
Horizon Software (Horizon), the world’s leading SaaS provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, announced today that PPC, the leading energy supplier in Greece, can market make energy futures on the Hellenic Energy Exchange (HEnEx) leveraging the existing infrastructure of an existing Horizon client, Eurobank.
Mortgage Brain sees product numbers increasing and ESIS volumes stabilising
- 5 years 12 months ago
- Banking
Last week saw the number of available mortgage products increase for the second week in a row to 8,044 products, an increase of 488 (5.9%) from the previous week. The majority of the growth has been seen in the remortgage sector where the product numbers increased by 5.4%, while home mover products increased by 2.0% and BTL product numbers reduced by 1.9%. When compared to pre-pandemic levels, the number of mortgage products is 6,630 (45.2%)...
