NatWest launches ‘In Conversation With’ interview series
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Covid-19, Banking
A new interview series featuring some of Britain’s leading business, political, and sporting names will launch this week – and anyone can join. The series, which has been created by NatWest, will be available to both customers and non-customers alike and will give the UK’s 4 million SMEs the opportunity to hear directly from some of the most influential voices in the industry.
FeedStock achieves Red Hat Container certification for fully automated data management solutions for financial services institutions
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Data
FeedStock, the AI-driven data analytics platform for smarter decisions, today announces it has completed Red Hat Container certification for its FeedStock Connector and has been published in the
Venio launches nano credit lending app to boost financial inclusion in emerging markets
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Lending, Banking
Venio, the mobile application providing "nano-credit" facilities to consumers in emerging markets accessed via a smartphone, has begun offering easy-to-access credit facilities to unbanked consumers in its maiden emerging market, the Philippines.
FinTech Connect 2020 shifts to digital
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Payments, Banking, FinTech StartUps
IQPC Ltd, the organiser of FinTech Connect which is the UK’s largest financial technology trade show with over 6,000 attendees in 2019, has announced that the 2020 edition will take place as an online event.
Paynetics and phyre launch Digital First Mastercard payment solution
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Payments
Fintech payment service provider Paynetics AD, digital banking platforms provider
GHDDI launches free AI Virtual Screening Service for COVID-19 powered by Alibaba Cloud
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19
Powered by Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) launched a Free AI Virtual Screening Service for COVID-19 in order to facilitate COVID-19 drug discovery effort globally. The free and web-based research engine provides researchers with an AI powered tool for virtual screening computation, which is powerful enough to support the prediction of SARS-CoV2...
FICO wins award for video championing diversity in analytics
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Data
As businesses worldwide increase their use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the issue of diversity in analytics has become more important. In a new video, global analytics software firm FICO highlighted the need for greater diversity in analytics development teams to fight bias. This video, produced by the Women@FICO team for International Women’s Day 2020, has just received a bronze award at the 2020 Bulldog PR Awards.
Kroll adds consumer credit monitoring to suite of UK data breach notification services
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Data, Risk Management, Credit Risk
Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, a global leader in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience, security and incident response solutions, today announced that it now offers credit monitoring services as part of its suite of identity and fraud protection solutions available to UK companies responding to a data breach.
RegTech and SupTech: Innovation, Evolution and FCA development
- 5 years 11 months ago
- RegTech, Security and Compliance
In the latest episode of the RegTech 20:20 podcast from Encompass, the Know Your Customer (KYC) RegTech software provider, guest speaker Francesca Hopwood Road, Head of RegTech and Advanced Analytics at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is interviewed about how the regulator is working with those within the industry.
KBC Bank launches smart investment assistant Matti from Bolero, supported by Objectway
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Investment Management, Wealth Management
Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, and KBC Bank have announced, at the beginning of this year, the market launch of the new roboadvisory service, Matti from Bolero, supported by components of the Objectway WealthTech Suite. Objectway provided portfolio management, rebalancing and proposal generation capabilities in an ‘as-an-engine’ model towards Matti, the smart investment assistant of Bolero, KBC’s...
Allica Bank appoints Richard Davies, the Revolut, TSB and HSBC banking heavyweight as CEO
- 5 years 11 months ago
- People Moves
Allica Bank – the recently launched business bank that seeks to empower small and medium sized businesses – has today announced the appointment of Richard Davies as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In this role, Richard will be responsible for leading the Bank as it scales to become a major force in serving British businesses, delivering the funding, technology and expertise needed at what is a crucial time for the British business sector.
corfinancial: Salerio client Baillie Gifford goes live with futures
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Trading Systems
corfinancial, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, reports that Edinburgh-based investment manager Baillie Gifford has migrated the processing of its futures transactions to corfinancial’s post-trade system, Salerio.
Santander partners with Ripple to bring certainty and speed to international payments
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Payments
As well as being one of the biggest banks in the world, Banco Santander also has a reputation as one of the finance industry’s most innovative organizations. Since the launch of its innovation fund, InnoVentures, in 2014, Santander has invested heavily in a range of digital technologies. But every innovation must directly benefit the bank’s millions of customers, like One Pay FX—the transformative cross-border payments service created in...
Finch Global launches fintech digital passport to make compliance checks smoother for businesses
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Compliance, Regulatory Standards, AML and KYC
As financial institutions and organisations come to terms with the challenges of the post-Covid-19 world it is obvious that regulated businesses urgently need a new, more efficient, fast and secure way to onboard new customers and re-energize their existing customer base. They also need to add value to their existing customer relationships. Finch Global aims to do just that by creating a shared service that makes it easier to take out financial...
ICC Global Survey on Trade Finance confirms industry optimism
- 5 years 11 months ago
- Trade Finance
The International Chamber of Commerce's (ICC) 11th annual Global Survey on Trade Finance reveals that banks are optimistic about the evolving nature of trade finance, though unsurprisingly expect various industry-wide challenges and disruption as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
