Fidor Joins Consortium to Create ASEAN Financial Innovation Network’s First Regional API Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Fidor Solutions, an innovative provider of digital banking services, today signed an agreement with AFIN to create ASEAN’s first API Exchange (APIX) platform as Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox - together in a consortium formed with Virtusa and Percipient.
Banks will reign supreme in the battle against fintech giants
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
Asia-Pacific (APAC) is leading the world in the adoption of digital banking due to consumers’ constantly evolving demands, combined with the unbanked potential and benign regulation. Non-traditional challengers such as Ant Financial and Tencent are shaking up the market. Temenos argues that in the battle between banks and fintech giants, banks that embrace digital transformation will emerge as champions.
TransPecos Banks Selects NYMBUS to Launch BankMD.com
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
NYMBUS, the world’s most advanced revenue and technology solutions company, today announced TransPecos Banks has selected NYMBUS SmartLaunch to outsource the operation of its new digital bank brand, BankMD. Already serving its established banking customers throughout three regional locations in West Texas, SmartLaunch supports TransPecos Banks’ latest business transformation strategy to stand up a separate digital brand for expanding its digital...
UK financial services firms admit spending almost one million pounds on failed or cancelled digital projects
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
For almost three quarters (73%) of financials services leaders, customers are the main driving force behind their company’s digital transformation, however fear of failure is holding back the implementation of digital projects, with almost three quarters of financials services leaders put off by the costs of failed projects. This comes as no surprise, as seven-in-10 admit to cancelled projects in the last two years, according to Fujitsu’s...
OP5 is included in the Gartner 2018 Market Guide for Infrastructure Monitoring Tools
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
“Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) leaders tasked with IT operations transformation must prepare for the challenges of contextualizing data acquired by IT Infrastructure monitoring tools from highly modular IT architectures by utilizing AIOps to deal with the volume, variety and velocity of data.”
Lombard Risk, a Vermeg Company, Announces Support of Resolution Planning Reporting and the latest Bank of England Updates
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
The Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) has been in effect for some time but this will now be accompanied by reporting obligations to both EBA and PRA. EBA ‘Z’ templates – applicable to all current BRRD firms – and PRA MRL templates – applicable by notification from the Regulator – are both effective as at 2018 year-end and are supported in Lombard Risk’s Regulatory Reporting platform. The return templates will, of course, be supplied...
Scotland’s first ‘Fintech Skills Academy’ launches in response to growth of sector
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Infrastructure
A consortium of international Fintech companies together with Fife Council, Fife College and Fintech Scotland, have joined forces to launch Scotland’s first ‘Fintech Skills Academy’. The consortium, which includes Renovite Technologies and Ingenico Group, officially launched the Fintech Skills Academy at the premises of Paywizard in Kirkcaldy on September 13th.
The Digital Transformation of Banking - Driving Constructive Economic Outcomes from the FinTech Ecosystem in Africa
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
The unique environment for financial services in Africa is fertile ground for innovative FinTech players who are not only disrupting but also building it from the scratch which is bringing Financial inclusions and attracting other investments across the continent.
Sébastien Glineur joins Synechron as Paris Head of Digital
- 6 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
Synechron, the global financial services consulting and technology services provider, has today announced that Sébastien Glineur has joined as Head of its digital practice in Paris.
optile Open Payments 1.0 Achieves Certified Integration with SAP® Applications
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Today, optile, a next-generation open payment platform for global online businesses, announced that optile Open Payments 1.0 has achieved certified integration with SAP® Applications. optile’s innovative solution can deliver faster growth opportunities to businesses while providing a frictionless, unified payment experience to their customers.
Anthemis’ Samantha Ghiotti Joins The Currencycloud Board To Support With International Expansion
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments, People Moves
Leading international payments platform Currencycloud has today announced the appointment of Anthemis partner and payments expert Samantha Ghiotti as a new board member, to underpin Currencycloud’s ambitious international growth plans.
Ithmaar Bank and Eazy Financial Services Announce Plans to Launch the Region’s First Biometric Payment Network
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Ithmaar Bank and Eazy Financial Services today announced plans to launch the region’s first biometric payment network, supported by the Labour Fund “Tamkeen”, providing new and more efficient alternative for customers to conduct many of their financial transactions.
Assetz Capital celebrates success with cashback offer
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Alternative Finance
Leading peer-to-peer business lender, Assetz Capital, has launched a new promotion which rewards its investors with a 1% or 2% cashback bonus on newly lent funds. To benefit from the cashback offer investors simply need to invest new cash and leave it on the platform until 17th December 2018 – resulting in a 1% cash back on those funds – and if they leave those funds invested until 17th June 2019 they will receive an additional 1% cash back....
B-Hive joins forces with Projective for international expansion
- 6 years 9 months ago
- Banking
The official collaboration between Projective and B-Hive has been launched at the festive opening of banking services provider Projective’s new offices. Projective, which already has a significant international footprint and offices in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, will become B-Hive’s associate partner and assist them in expanding their fintech innovation platform at an international level. Belgium is at the cutting edge of...
Mambu Extends Capacity with Integration Platform as a Service
- 6 years 9 months ago
- PaaS
Mambu, the SaaS banking engine powering modern digital financial services, today announced the launch of Mambu Process Orchestrator (MPO). An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) built around the core engine, MPO enables clients to rapidly and intuitively compose, run and monitor API-driven and cloud-based processes.
