Callsign wins competitive London heats of NTT DATA Open Innovation Contest 2018
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Callsign has beaten 10 other start-ups to win the London stage of NTT DATA’s 2018 Global Open Innovation Contest, and its team will now fly to Tokyo, Japan to compete against entrepreneurs from around the world in the competition’s Grand Finale. Contestants will be competing for the chance to win a three-month in-kind contribution to support the development of their proposed new business, and an opportunity to break into the highly innovative...
FinTech in South Africa: Accelerating the Digital Transformation of Banking & Financial Services
- 7 years 11 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Africa’s financial services landscape continues its dynamic evolution as the rapid growth of FinTech on the continent drives both the disruption and leapfrogging of legacy systems and further accelerates the digital transformation of financial services. In South Africa, the major banks are rapidly ramping-up their own innovation strategies and collaborating with new game-changing start-ups to drive efficiencies, make digital profitable and...
Finastra and Microsoft form strategic alliance to shape future of financial services software
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Cloud
Finastra and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to deliver secure, flexible and cost effective financial services cloud solutions. As part of the alliance, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s enterprise-ready trusted cloud platform, will underpin FusionFabric.cloud as Finastra’s strategic cloud platform. In addition, Finastra will launch a selection of its global payments and retail banking products on Azure over the course of this year.
ABN AMRO Chooses Wolters Kluwer and SAS to Integrate Finance, Risk and Reporting to Meet Regulatory Compliance
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Risk Management
ABN AMRO, the third largest bank in the Netherlands with more than 22,000 employees, has chosen Wolters Kluwer and SAS to provide a truly integrated finance, risk and regulatory reporting software solution. The implementation of the software is part of the bank’s major transformation project, the Finance and Risk Architecture Alignment Initiative (FRAAI), which is designed to better meet increasing requests internally as well as from regulatory...
State Street Launches Suite of Investable Indices
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Investment Management
State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today announced it has developed and begun licensing a suite of rules-based investment strategies, or Investable Indices, for institutional investors. “This is not smart beta or thematic investing,” said Will Kinlaw, head of research and advisory for State Street Global ExchangeSM. “These investable indices represent a new phase of dynamic investing. We’re packaging an active strategy in rules-driven index,...
Meniga takes enriched transactions to the next level
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Payments, Banking
Today at Finovate Europe 2018, Meniga, the global leader of white-label digital banking solutions and three-time Finovate winner, presented its latest personal finance innovation that encourages banks to branch out from the familiar digital banking customer experience.
Fiserv partners Mastercard to approve more genuine transactions without increasing risk
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments
Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today it is offering Mastercard® Decision Intelligence™, a comprehensive decision and fraud detection service.
iwoca pledges £100m for small businesses in the Northern Powerhouse
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Crowdfunding, microfinance
iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, is pledging to lend £100 million to micro and small businesses in the North of England by 2020. The alternative finance provider is making the pledge in response to the withdrawal of credit facilities for small businesses by the UK’s banks, which has been most acute in the North.
Trifacta Available for Deployment Through Microsoft Azure to Provide Faster Data Wrangling & Analytics in the Cloud
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Data
Trifacta, a global leader in data wrangling, announced the availability of Wrangler Enterprise in the Azure Marketplace, allowing organizations to deploy Trifacta in less than 30 minutes. Trifacta & Microsoft Azure have already seen early success with large-scale enterprise customers including Chubb, Donnelley Financial Solutions, and Etihad Airways.
Intelligent Environments upgrades Interact Collect
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Wealth Management, Private Banking
Intelligent Environments, the software development company that provides financial services organisations with the ability to transform their digital customer experiences, todaylaunched the latest iteration of Interact® Collect – a solution that finally rewires the debt recovery and reconciliation process for the digital world. Interact Collect is a digital-first approach to consumer debt collection.
Symphony Software to host its second Open Source Strategy Forum in November 2018
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Banking
The Symphony Software Foundation (the Foundation), the nonprofit organization fostering open source software innovation in financial services, will be hosting its second Open Source Strategy Forum on November 14, 2018. Following a successful 2017 event at BNY Mellon in New York City, the Open Source Strategy Forum moves this year to London, another global epicenter of financial services and the fintech revolution.
European Investors Financed 330.000 Short-term PDL-Loans
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Investment Management
The investment service Robo.cash outlined the results of the first year in operation on the European P2P lending market: 2.000 investors from the EU and Switzerland invested over €3 million in the issue of 330 thousand short-term PDL-loans in Kazakhstan and Spain. The results and the platform dynamics are considered to prove the growing demand for complex automated solutions in the global alternative fintech.
Astound Commerce Joins Forces With Fluid to Form the Largest Independent Digital Commerce Agency
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Risk Management
Astound Commerce, the world's largest privately-held digital commerce agency, has merged today with Fluid, a leading digital customer experience and software solutions company, to create a next generation commerce-led digital experience agency.
CEO Insight Awards ICS Financial Systems Limited (ICSFS) for Being at the Forefront of the Digital Banking Industry
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Infrastructure
CEO Insight Magazine, the presenter of “CEO Insight Companies of Excellence”, have selected
First Blockchain-based Crypto and Digital Asset Inheritance Service Releases Beta
- 7 years 11 months ago
- Blockchain
Digipulse, the world's first blockchain-based crypto and digital asset inheritance service has released its public Beta, which offers a glimpse at the upcoming 'inheritable vault's'. Digipulse aims to ensure that all digital media and crypto users have ultimate control over who inherits their assets.
