Cornèrcard Launches Biometric Credit Card
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Payments, Credit Cards
Switzerland's Cornèrcard has teamed up with Gemalto and Visa to launch the country's first credit card featuring a biometric fingerprint reader. To register a fingerprint on the limited edition Cornèrcard biometric gold Visa credit card, users touch a sensor, with an LED signalling the successful capture. Then, for the first transaction with the card, users enter a PIN. After this, they can confirm payments at the point of sale by touching the...
Brazilian Neobank Neon Raises $93.5 Million in Bid to Triple Account Base
- 6 years 2 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Fast-growing Brazilian neobank Neon has raised $93.5 million in a Series B round led by General Atlantic and Banco Votorantim as it seeks to grow its two million customer base beyond the Rio-Sao Paulo corridor. This is Neon's second round of funding. The first investment, valued at $22 million, was made in May 2018 by venture capital funds Monashees, Omidyar Network, BBVA's Propel, Quona and Mabi, who have each returned for the current round.
FDX Managing Director Don Cardinal Testifies Before Congress on Big Data in Banking and Financial Data Security
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Big Data, Data Management
Financial Data Exchange Managing Director Don Cardinal testified before the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Financial Technology, regarding the role of big data in financial services and the protection of consumer privacy.
Lisa Fiondella joins Finastra as Chief Data Officer
- 6 years 2 months ago
- People Moves
Finastra has hired Lisa Fiondella as Chief Data Officer to lead its comprehensive data strategy, including how data collected through the FusionFabric.cloud platform and various cloud-based solutions, can be best utilized. She will be responsible for developing a data product roadmap and manage the process of bringing new data products to market.
FinTech Connect arrives in Canada May 2020
- 6 years 2 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
IQPC Ltd the organiser of FinTech Connect, the UK’s biggest fintech event, is launching a new show in Toronto, Canada, next year following five successful years in London.
IBOS Association celebrates 25 years of growth
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Banking
IBOS is proud to announce that, through its member banks around the globe, it has now been providing clients with world class international cash management services for 25 years and continues to develop, expand and innovate in order to remain competitive and offer a level of service which only local banks can provide.
TruNarrative partners with French AI firm Bleckwen to expand its financial crime solution
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Fraud Detection
Leeds-headquartered TruNarrative has added French fraud detection and prevention specialist, Bleckwen, to its industry-leading financial crime platform. The latest partnership with the French firm will enable the integration of Bleckwen’s sophisticated dynamic behavioural analytics service – powered by real-time explainable Artificial Intelligence (AI) – into the brand’s existing financial crime and onboarding solution.
Wolters Kluwer Triumphs in Regulatory Reporting and Liquidity Risk in Chartis RiskTech100 Rankings
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Risk Management
Wolters Kluwer is this year’s Category Winner for both Regulatory Reporting and Liquidity Risk in the annual RiskTech100® report. This comprehensive study of the world’s leading risk and compliance technology companies is compiled by Chartis Research. Notably, this is the eighth time in nine years that Wolters Kluwer has achieved the Regulatory Reporting honor and the first time that Wolters Kluwer has triumphed in the Liquidity Risk rankings.
Nium to power cross-border payments for Cambodia’s PhillipBank
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Nium, the recently-rebranded digital cross-border payments platform for global enterprises and financial institutions, has announced that it will now power cross-border payments for the clients of PhillipBank, one of Cambodia’s growing banking group, across its network.
F-Secure’s new research: Why AI will be Inhuman
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Cybersecurity
Cyber security provider F-Secure has launched a new research project to further develop the decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms currently used in its detection and response technologies. The initiative, dubbed Project Blackfin, aims to leverage collective intelligence techniques, such as swarm intelligence, to create adaptive, autonomous AI agents that collaborate with each other to achieve common goals.
It’s time for a treat: Klarna brings ‘pup-up’ to London
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Payments
Klarna, the leading global disruptor of smoooth shopping and payments, celebrates the dog owning and dog loving communities with their brand new campaign – ‘Who’s a good shopper’ – kicking off with its first ever UK ‘pup-up’ in London on 27-28 November. Klarna will open the pup-up following in the footsteps of their other successful pop-ups in London and Manchester. This time showcasing Klarna to London’s loyal dog-loving community in a setting...
StyloPay selects Tribe Payments for global digital wallet offering
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Payments
StyloPay, specialists in payment solutions and mobile applications, has selected Tribe Payment’s digital wallet technology. Tribe’s digital wallet technology will form part of StyloPay’s cloud-based payments-as-a-service offering that enables banks and card issuers to rapidly scale card programmes and mobile wallets globally.
Signicat and Twikey partner to catalyse recurring Single European Payment Area (SEPA) payments in Belgium and the Netherlands
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Digital Identity
Signicat, the Trusted Digital Identity ™ company and Twikey, the market leader in SEPA mandates and specialist in optimizing the payment process of recurring customers, have partnered to allow merchants to digitally sign SEPA e-mandates in Belgium and the Netherlands for recurring purchases. The joint offering will dramatically reduce costly and inefficient paper-based processes.
IHS Markit Brings Real-Time Municipal Bond Issuance Data and Management to Buyside Investors
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Data
IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the launch of Ipreo Muni for institutional investors, the first electronic platform to directly connect asset managers to live primary market information published by municipal bond dealers. The platform provides a centralized hub of real-time pricing, analytics and issue-specific updates for all municipal new issuance.
Standard Chartered Launches Mobile Tokens for Commercial Customers
- 6 years 2 months ago
- Banking
Standard Chartered is introducing mobile tokens in over 38 markets for corporate clients who use its Straight2Bank platform for cash management and trade transactions. This will eliminate the need for clients to carry physical tokens and allow them to secure their two-factor authentication (2FA) from their mobile phones. The Bank will aggressively rollout this new feature over the next three months, which will benefit more than 100,000 of its...
