Boku - Direct Carrier Billing Expands in Europe
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Trade Finance
Boku announced new carrier partnerships in Germany and Italy to power carrier billing on Spotify. This is an expansion of Boku’s existing global partnership with Spotify that first launched in the United Kingdom and includes every major carrier in Germany and one of the leading Italian mobile operators. With these new agreements, nearly 90 million mobile subscribers across these markets will be able to purchase Spotify Premium subscriptions...
Toc Joins International Alliance for Secure Online Authentication
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Security, Authentication Technology
The popularization of mobile phones with biometric sensors together with technological advances for mobile payments has revolutionized the world of online transactions. The FIDO Alliance was formed in July 2012 to address the lack of interoperability among these types of strong authentication technologies, and remedy the problems users face with creating and remembering multiple usernames and passwords.
Touchstone Investments Launches International Growth Fund
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Fund Management, Investment Management
The fund is sub-advised by Apex Capital Management, which also serves as sub-advisor to the Touchstone Small Cap Growth Fund. The Dayton, Ohio firm embraces bottom-up fundamental research with top-down secular views, investing in companies with stable growth and emerging growth characteristics.
Visa Invites Start-ups to Compete in The Everywhere Initiative
- 9 years 8 months ago
- FinTech StartUps, IT Innovations
Visa invited start-ups to compete in the company’s second annual The Everywhere Initiative. In partnership with start-up ecosystem company, KITE, Visa is posing three real-life business challenges to the start-up community to create innovative solutions that solve Visa business problems and drive the future of commerce. The selected winner of each challenge will receive $50,000 to be used towards the real-world production of their solution and...
WEX Australia Prolongs Agreement with FCTG to Provide Virtual Payments Solution
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments
WEX announced that WEX Australia has updated its existing agreement with Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), one of the world’s largest travel agency groups, to provide virtual credit card payments for its retail stores.
Weekly Fintech Review April 25 - 29
- 9 years 8 months ago
- IT Innovations
The week starting April 25 through April 29 was full of interesting product releases in the sphere of blockchain and trading systems. The most significant events include Misys’ Cloud solutions as well as Nasdaq Validator launching for trading quality assurance. Financial IT summarized the top deals in fintech industry for this week below: PRODUCT RELEASES OF THE WEEK
Banc of California Unveils Key Appointments to its Private Bank
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Private Banking, People Moves
Banc of California has hired Arby Sanoyans and Anto Shakelian as Senior Directors, based at Banc of California's Private Banking office in Century City, California.
Tipalti SuiteApp Reaches “Built For NetSuite” Status
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Cloud, SaaS
Tipalti's SuiteApp has achieved ‘Built for NetSuite’ status. The new SuiteApp, built using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud Platform, integrates with NetSuite OneWorld to provide one unified Accounts Payable Automation solution, helping finance departments streamline their entire global supplier payment operation.
IBM Offers First Highly Secure Blockchain Services for Financial Sector
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Blockchain, Cloud, IaaS, SaaS
To enhance speed the adoption of blockchain for business, IBM announced a new framework for securely operating blockchain networks, as well as new services on the IBM Cloud that are designed to meet existing regulatory and security requirements.
Danske Bank Implements SmartDX
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Banking, Infrastructure
SmartDX, from the Smart Communications division of Thunderhead announced that Danske Bank, the largest bank in Denmark and a major retail bank in the northern European region, with over 3.5 million customers, has selected SmartDX to manage their derivative trade confirmation processing. SmartDX is the industry standard for automating trade and relationship document generation and negotiation in the Capital Markets.
Remitly Money Transfer Service Expands in Canada
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments
Remitly closed a $38.5 million Series C funding round. Stripes Group led this round and was joined by Vulcan Capital, both new investors in Remitly. Existing Remitly investors also contributed to the round including DFJ, DN Capital, Bezos Expeditions and Trilogy Equity Partners, among others. Stripes Group partner Ron Shah will join Remitly’s board of directors as part of the financing. The new capital will be used to grow Remitly’s team and...
Infosys Finacle and Samsung SDS Partner to Provide Enhanced Mobile Banking
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Payments, Mobile Banking
Infosys Finacle a product subsidiary of Infosys and Samsung SDS, a global ICT service provider, today announced a global partnership that will provide end customers with a more secure, fast and convenient way to use mobile banking and payment services.
Visa's First Innovation Center in Asia was Launched
- 9 years 8 months ago
- IT Innovations
Visa unveils the opening of its Singapore innovation center, the first in a network of new regional innovation centers that Visa is launching globally. The new 7,000 square foot Singapore facility will serve as a destination for clients, partners and developers, across the region, to work alongside Visa experts and jointly create the next generation of payment and commerce applications.
Amazon Web Services and Infosys Team Up to Boost Cloud Migration
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Cloud, Infrastructure
Infosys announced a global strategic initiative with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to make transitioning to the cloud easier and faster. Infosys will use AWS to host a suite of Infosys technologies that will help enterprise customers securely adopt cloud-based systems swiftly.
IPBS Partners with eShore to Expedite Private Banking Sales Growth
- 9 years 8 months ago
- Private Banking
International Private Banking Systems the specialist provider of wealth management software for the private banking sector, today announced a partnership with eShore, a trusted IT service provider to offshore international banks and financial services organisations. The agreement will see eShore market and sell the IPBS system in a number of international offshore financial centres where they have an established presence.
