Glia, a leading provider of Digital Customer Service, today announced that it has partnered with Tyfone, a provider of digital banking solutions. By integrating Glia’s technology into Tyfone’s digital banking platform, financial institutions are providing a quicker, more convenient customer experience.

With Glia, Tyfone’s bank and credit union clients can meet customers where they are and communicate with them through whichever methods they prefer—including messaging, video banking and voice—while guiding them through CoBrowsing. Customers can seamlessly be transferred from chatbots to live representatives when they have more complex inquiries without having to reauthenticate themselves or provide additional context. This strategic blend of AI and humans boosts efficiencies and saves time while preserving personal connection within the digital domain.

“At Tyfone, we believe digital banking must advance at the pace of digital, not the pace of banking,” said Siva Narendra, CEO of Tyfone. “We prioritize integration and collaboration with other leading solutions in the market to position our financial institution clients for success. Glia’s technology powers cohesive experiences; customers can easily transition from self-service functions to meaningful high-touch interactions without ever having to leave the digital channel. Such an approach heightens customer satisfaction and loyalty.”

Tyfone’s digital banking platform has over 300 features and over 150 partner integrations. The company has a high-touch, collaborative relationship with its financial institutions; customer feedback directly impacts the types of features and functionality the company offers. By partnering with Glia, Tyfone is providing banks and credit unions with the glue that makes digital transformation work: Digital Customer Service.

“The screen is the center of a customer’s universe, so businesses must adapt if they want to deliver a five-star experience,” said Dan Michaeli, CEO and co-founder of Glia. “Through our partnership, Tyfone’s financial institution clients are modernizing their approach to service, providing customers with quick, versatile support within digital channels. This ultimately leads to increased efficiencies, stronger relationships and a better overall customer experience.”

Investview, Inc. (OTCQB: INVU), through its subsidiary and global distribution network iGenius delivers an ecosystem of leading-edge financial technologies, services, and research that enable educated participation in blockchain, AI, DeFi, and the global markets, reports strong record growth trend for iGenius in the First Quarter.

"This was an all-around highly successful quarter for iGenius. During the quarter, our strategies led to strong global customer demand for our high-quality financial education tools, research, and digital asset technology products. We also offered various incentives and promotions that were well received and contributed meaningfully to sales and customer growth for the quarter." said Joe Cammarata, CEO.

Investview, through our subsidiary iGenius, remains tightly focused on our mission of making financial technology advances available to the masses, with our most recent product and education introduction of NDAU the world’s first adaptive digital currency, continues to be a key driving force behind the company’s continued growth trend” added Cammarata.

Applications such as Robinhood and Coinbase are creating millions of self-directed investors looking to capitalize on the equities and crypto markets. Many of these investors are inexperienced and seek reliable education and training.

iGenius leverages a worldwide distribution network to provide financial education, technology, and tools designed to help self-directed retail investors succeed in the markets. With subscribers in over 100 countries worldwide, iGenius gives individuals access to knowledge that is typically only available to the wealthy.

iGenius Operation: Growth Trend

Since Investview launched iGenius in January 2021, the growth has been tremendous.

• Gross revenue in June is an estimated $5M compared to $1.7M in January representing nearly 185% growth.
• Gross subscription revenue in June is an estimated $2.2M compared to $1.1M in January representing a 100% increase.
• There were an estimated 3,970 new members added in June compared to 2,938 in January representing a 35% increase.
• Total iGenius memberships are up an estimated 64% since January

Note: The numbers included in this release are initial estimated results and are un-audited and may differ from numbers reported in our SEC filings due to compliance with US GAAP, and subject to final review by the Company’s independent auditors.

According to iGenius President, Chad Garner, customer retention is another key indicator of the value of the iGenius platform. He said: “The way people invest, manage, and exchange money is different than it was 5 years ago. Self-directed investing, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and online payment systems like Venmo are just a few examples of how new financial technologies have disrupted the old way of doing things. iGenius provides crucial access to education and tools that allow members to stay on the cutting edge of these changes. While we believe that our platform can help anyone capitalize on these changes, we recognize how easy it is for a new investor to get discouraged and quit as they learn a new skill. iGenius has been able to maintain retention metrics that are well above industry benchmarks by teaching our members that investing is a marathon, not a sprint. Our members learn that it takes continued and consistent effort to start building long term wealth.”

iGenius member, Miguel Vees Raposo shared his story about how the iGenius education platform changed his life.

"It was important for me to find a company that reflected the same morals that I was brought up with. iGenius gave me the right information to change my situation."

(View Miguel’s full testimonial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biQFsW4ytVs )

iGenius continues to add education and services to its platform with a dedication to providing self-directed investors access to life changing information and products typically only made available to large institutions.

Set to launch across the Asia-Pacific region later this year, Singapore-based CrediLinq.ai are focused on creating an inclusive, accessible and digital-first SME lending experience for underserved borrowers, built on AI-generated credit scores. The deal will see CrediLinq.ai use Validis’ single API to access and analyze accounting data – helping speed up the underwriting process, enable faster access to funding for SMEs, reporting and transparency to investors and ongoing monitoring of loans.

CEO and Founder of CrediLinq.ai, Deep Singh said: “We are at an exciting part of our journey at CrediLinq.ai and nearing the launch of our game-changing credit lending platform. Choosing the best technology partners to help deliver the best digital-first experience is integral to our vision of delivering fast and accessible growth capital to SMEs in the region, whilst minimizing risk to investors – Validis will be a key enabler of this – they have unrivalled experience in this space, with the broadest accounting data coverage and richest insights in the market.”

Paul Thomas, CEO of Validis said: “CrediLinq.ai are an exciting new entrant with ambitious plans to disrupt the SME lending space. They’re reimagining the credit underwriting process with their AI and machine learning platform and I’m delighted that we’ve been chosen to support Deep and the wider CrediLinq.ai team – providing access to on-demand accounting data through our API will deliver the rich insight needed to power their credit analysis process and help make fast and smart lending decisions for an underserved SME community”.

FinecoBank today announces that funds from AllianceBernstein (AB) are now available on its investing platform. 

AB provides industry-leading research and investment solutions through a combination of innovation, intellectual curiosity and relentless ingenuity.

This announcement follows on from earlier announcements that funds from AXA, BNY Mellon Investment Management, Invesco, Vontobel and Wellington joined the Fineco platform this year.

Paolo Di Grazia, Deputy General Manager, Fineco: “We continually strive to offer clients a wide selection of investment options and the opportunity to diversify their portfolio. It’s a pleasure to welcome AllianceBernstein, a company which shares our dedication to investment excellence, and our objective of ensuring the competitiveness of our platform is upheld."

Lee Matthews, Head of UK & Ireland Wholesale, AllianceBernstein, said: “Fineco has an outstanding reputation of service excellence, and providing a best-in-class investment platform. We have seen significant demand from UK investors for our leading funds, and joining Fineco’s platform will allow us to bring them to an even wider audience. Combining our investment expertise with Fineco’s innovative solutions will make a compelling proposition for current and future clients.”

Underpins IT Strategy to Deliver Business Value and New Services 

Nutanix, a leader in private cloud, hybrid, and multicloud computing, today announced that its software has helped the Royal Opera House (ROH) in London to take full advantage of cloud technologies and realise benefits across its business.

With a history spanning more than 250 years, the ROH is the UK’s only permanent house for opera and ballet, staging 420 live performances every year. Following a £50m makeover and building upgrade at its headquarters in London’s Covent Garden, the ROH wanted to modernise its IT infrastructure. Whilst its relatively modern systems were functional, the lack of flexibility in the stack meant that it was ‘ticking over’, rather than delivering added value to the business.

With a large number of performances and plans to expand its digital streaming offering – the fastest growing part of the business – it evaluated all available options, the ROH chose the Nutanix Prism Pro multi-cloud management console and Nutanix Calm, along with Rubrik backup and recovery-as-a-Service.

Delivered by Nutanix partner ET Works, the solution was cost-effective, with a lower total cost of ownership than other options, including using entirely public cloud; however, it was also flexible and easy to manage. In addition to being less expensive from the start, Nutanix also provided transparency on upgrade costs for new workloads and future expansion, which offered cost certainty for the ROH.

Daniel Rubie, Head of Technology Operations, Royal Opera House, said: “I was looking for a solution that was cost effective, easy to manage and flexible. We needed something that meant I didn’t have to expand the technical team, that would take care of security and would tie into our cloud strategy. We wanted something affordable to tie together our workloads and applications across multiple premises and clouds and provide a clear technology direction and certainty on future expansion.”

Dom Poloniecki, Vice President & General Manager, Sales at Nutanix, Western Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa said: “In addition to delivering efficiencies for the ROH, operating a hybrid cloud with Nutanix provides the additional benefit of a fully integrated system so, when it comes to upgrades, downtime is no longer needed; it is simply a case of moving workloads to a different node with no loss of service. An added benefit is that the team also no longer has to monitor capacity and juggle backups or monitor for errors, which frees them up to focus on higher value projects.”

The ROH is now looking at how it can use technologies such as Chef, Ansible and Docker within its IT infrastructure. The Nutanix and Rubrik platform is an API-first architecture and Nutanix Karbon allows for native deployment of Docker applications.

A key growth area for the ROH is high definition video and sound digital streaming to cinemas. The company’s broadcast and media teams are also exploring Nutanix-enabled on-prem storage options, which will later be archived to the cloud.

Kantox, a European fintech and leader in Currency Management Automation software, has announced an expansion of their partnership with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world's most innovative companies and their investors. Through this expansion, SVB’s corporate clients across the United States will now be able to leverage Kantox’s award-winning Kantox Dynamic Hedging® solution to automate the management of their currency risk. 

By introducing the Kantox platform to SVB’s existing suite of specialized currency management solutions, SVB clients will be able to leverage a fully automated FX risk management solution that can help them to minimize risk, reduce costs and gain a competitive edge when operating across borders. The seamlessly integrated technology provides instant visibility into both macro and micro FX exposures and automatically offsets risk by booking, reporting and reconciling hedging transactions in real-time – all with minimal human intervention. 

The expanded partnership follows a successful launch in EMEA in which SVB’s UK corporate clients were provided access to Kantox’s solution. 

Paul Jennings, Head of FX Advisory at Silicon Valley Bank says: “SVB innovation clients conduct business globally from inception and are always looking for improved efficiency in managing their FX risk and optimizing execution through automation. We’re pleased to partner with Kantox to provide our clients with an industry-leading solution to currency management.”

Philippe Gelis, CEO and Co-founder at Kantox, adds: "SVB is the perfect partner for us to take our first steps within the US market. They understand the growing need for digital transformation within finance and view the innovation economy with a similar lens to that of our own. We're excited to jointly offer our award-winning Kantox Dynamic Hedging® solution to their US corporate clients, which will create greater efficiencies for treasurers and provide added value to SVB's current FX services”.

Skurio, the UK Digital Risk Protection company, today announced the roll out of a new collaborative Cyber Threat Intelligence solution in Pakistan in partnership with 1LINK and CydeaTech. 

“1TIP”, a Threat Intelligence Platform designed to promote better detection of data breaches and external cyber threats is now live with an initial cohort of banks in the region and the coalition will scale operations to support banking organisations nationwide this year. 1TIP relies on the Skurio Digital Risk Protection solution to monitor surface, deep and Dark Web sources around the clock, to provide intelligence on hacking groups and leaks of sensitive information. 

The move comes as part of a strategic government initiative, in the wake of historic cyber incidents, to promote better consumer protection as digital banking services are adopted. 1LINK operates the largest secure digital payment platform in Pakistan and was established by a consortium of 11 banking partners.  

1LINK’s dedication to strengthening defences for customers was highlighted by CEO, Najeeb Agrawalla, at recent signing ceremony with 1TIP customer Bank, “1LINK is committed to improving the cyber security posture of the financial industry against ever increasing cyber threats.” 

Banks signing up to service benefit from local expertise provided by the CydeaTech team who have established a hitlist of threat actors and intelligence sources relevant to banking institutions in conjunction with Skurio’s own threat intelligence experts. This enables customers of 1TIP to get the earliest possible warning of attack planning as well as vital intelligence on the latest cyber threats.  

“Skurio was an ideal Digital Risk Protection platform choice for us,” said Mahir Mohsin, CEO of CydeaTech;, “The ability to continually add new intelligence sources helps us to stay one step ahead of bad actors targeting the domestic finance industry.” 

“CydeaTech in partnership with 1LINK has helped us to establish Skurio Digital Risk Protection in Pakistan and we are already look forward to taking our solutions to additional industry sectors with this partnership” added Skurio CEO, Jeremy Hendy.