Clearwater Analytics Appoints Mike Chen as its New Head of Corporate Development

• 2 years 6 months ago
• People Moves

Clearwater Analytics, a leading provider of SaaS-based investment management, accounting, reporting, and analytics solutions, today announced the appointment of Mike Chen as its new Senior Vice President, Head of Corporate Development.

FCA Awards Portofino Technologies UK Registration as a Cryptoasset Business

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Cryptocurrencies

Portofino Technologies, one of the leading cryptocurrency market makers, today announces its successful registration as a crypto asset firm with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), enabling the business to trade cryptocurrencies with institutional investors in the UK.

New SME Savings Tracker Reveals Massive and Persistent Gap in Savings Rates Offered to SMEs by Big Banks Compared to Digital and Challenger Banks

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Personal Finance

A new savings tracker, published today by SME-focussed Allica Bank, has shown a continued significant gap between the rates SMEs are offered by challenger banks and their larger, incumbent competition.

ABN AMRO-Buckaroo Partnership Gives Retailers Better Access to Innovative Payment Services

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Financial

ABN AMRO and Buckaroo are setting up an exclusive partnership around payment services for retailers. Retailers play an important role in Dutch society and this requires secure, simple, innovative payment solutions. By joining forces, ABN AMRO and Buckaroo will be able to serve this client group even better with banking expertise and innovative payment solutions. The partnership will also strengthen the positions of both parties in payment...

ANZ Plus Launches Customisable Add-Ons with Qantas Frequent Flyer Integration

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Payments

ANZ Plus Add-Ons include the new Money Map and Money In & Out. Money Map is an interactive map that allows customers to track the geography of their eligible in-person purchases made with their ANZ Plus Visa debit card or digital wallet. Money In & Out provides customers a view of the money coming in and out of their account over a selected period, be it weeks, months or years.

Oman Housing Bank Selects Temenos for Core Banking Modernization in the Cloud

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Core Banking

Temenos today announced that Oman Housing Bank (OHB), a leading provider of housing finance in Oman, has selected Temenos to modernize its core banking platform in the cloud to develop new products faster and widen access to housing finance for Omanis.

Socure and Trustly Partner to Offer Industry-First Streamlined Onboarding and Open Banking Payments Process for Merchants and Fintechs

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Payments, Compliance

Viamericas Launches International Bill Pay for Streamlined Remittances

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Payments

Viamericas Corporation, a licensed, international remittance company, has launched international bill pay in Guatemala to make cross-border bill payments convenient, simple, and faster. The bill pay solution offers easy, fast and efficient payment options for cable, residential phone lines, Wi-Fi and a wide range of utilities, including water, gas and electricity, with support for the most requested companies.

Capital.com Opens New Regional Head Office in UAE under #NextGenFDI Initiative

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Infrastructure

Capital.com, the high-growth global trading platform and fintech group whose trading volumes surpassed USD$1trn in 2023, has announced that it is joining the UAE’s #NextGenFDI initiative for digitally-enabled businesses as it opens a new subsidiary, Capital Com MENA Securities Trading LLC (Capital Com MENA), based in the UAE.

Zilch Selects Checkout.com for Global Acquiring

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Payments

Zilch, the world’s first ad-subsidized payments network (ASPN), today announces it has selected Checkout.com, the digital payments solution provider, as its primary acquiring partner globally, with a particular focus on the UK and USA.

Mutual Trust Bank Launches Biometric Cards with IDEX Biometrics in Bangladesh

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Digital Identity

Mutual Trust Bank Limited (MTB) in Bangladesh is launching biometric payment cards based on IDEX Pay, the biometric solution from IDEX Biometrics.

Zscaler Finds Enterprise Use of AI/ML Tools Skyrocketed Nearly 600% Over the Last Year, Putting Enterprises at Risk

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Zscaler, Inc., the leader in cloud security, today announced the release of its 2024 AI Security Report, which draws on more than 18 billion AI transactions across the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ cloud security platform from April 2023 to January 2024. Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers analyzed how enterprises use AI/ML tools and mapped trends across sectors and geographies, highlighting how businesses are adapting to the shifting AI landscape and...

Quant Enriches its Central Bank-grade Blockchain Platform for Enterprise IT and Developers

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Blockchain

Quant, the blockchain for finance pioneer, today launched new pricing plans and functionality aimed at enterprise IT users and developers tasked by their business lines with implementing blockchain technology as part of their organisation’s wider digital asset strategy.

NWSB Selects Apiture Digital Banking Platform to Fuel Continued Growth

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Online Banking

Apiture, a leading provider of digital banking solutions, today announced that NWSB (The New Washington State Bank), a community financial institution serving customers in Southern Indiana since 1908, has selected the Apiture Digital Banking Platform to power its online and mobile banking solutions.

Nuvei Enters Into Agreement to be Taken Private by Advent International

• 2 years 6 months ago
• Payments

Nuvei Corporation, today announced that it has entered into a definitive arrangement agreement (the “Arrangement Agreement”) to be taken private by Advent International (“Advent”), one of the world’s largest and most experienced global private equity investors, with the support of each of the Company’s holders of multiple voting shares (“Multiple Voting Shares”), being Philip Fayer, certain investment funds managed by Novacap Management Inc.