Banking

Tim Howarth Appointed Managing Director for Financial Services at Fimatix

Frances OLeary from Lodestone Communications
07 Jul 2020
Fimatix has today announced the appointment of Tim Howarth as Managing Director for Financial Services, where he will lead the company’s work supporting the financial services sector. He will drive the growth of the business through further acquisitions and by offering new services for clients. H...

Icelandic neobank indó partners with Enfuce to develop Iceland’s first challenger bank

Linda Essén from Enfuce
16 Jun 2020
Relying on Enfuce’s turnkey service, indó can develop and scale “the world’s least powerful bank”. Helsinki June 16, 2020: indó, Iceland’s first-ever challenger bank, has selected Enfuce – Finland’s biggest fintech startup – as its partner for payments, open banking and sustainability services...

'Significant efforts being made by the tech community to combat big issues' from COVID-19 pandemic says PICTFOR report

Fran OLeary from Lodestone
22 Apr 2020
As social distancing measures have changed the way the nation functions, experts across the internet, communications and tech sectors have been working with government to make sure the shift to virtual living is as smooth as possible, with no one being left behind. The Parliamentary Internet,...

Fimatix and Agilesphere Announce Merger Creating a Leading Govtech and Fintech Business

Fran O'Leary from Lodestone Communications
09 Apr 2020
Agilesphere and Fimatix are today (9 April 2020) announcing their merger. By combining their complementary expertise, this move will create a leading Govtech and Fintech business: Agilesphere, a Fimatix Group company. The purpose of the combined entity will be to enhance the productivity of busin...

Fully-Verified, an online identity verification provider, successfully raises a financing round.

Alison Lancaster from Pressat
06 Apr 2020
With an ever-growing pressure on remote service delivery, Fully-Verified secures capital to further grow their business, and deliver KYC and identity verification services to businesses looking to move their operations online, while not sacrificing security and compliance. 30.03.2020. Tallinn,...

Talkbank, a Moscow-based fintech startup promotes virtual cards to avoid coronavirus spread

Lisa Bebekh from Talkbank
04 Mar 2020
A virtual Talkbank card is comparable to a normal debit card but you don’t get the physical plastic. It is provided to you via a chatbot which means that you don't have to contact anybody. And while the whole world is fighting the coronavirus, such contactless technologies appear to be the safest...

The Hungarian fintech company, Peak Financial Services had a successful and exciting year in 2019

Bora Bodanitz from Peak Financial Services
27 Jan 2020
Many successful years stand behind the first Hungarian fintech company, Peak Financial Services and the year of 2019 bought new excitements. In the past years, the role of fintech companies has increased; however, so far, rivalry typically occurred between old and newcomers, but last year bought...

London-based RegTech ClauseMatch enters Italian market going live at Intesa Sanpaolo

Anna Antimiichuk from ClauseMatch
15 Oct 2019
ClauseMatch goes live at Intesa Sanpaolo digitalising contract management across the bank London-Milan. October 15, 2019 ClauseMatch, a financial technology company founded in 2012, officially announced today that it has become operational at Intesa Sanpaolo. ClauseMatch and Intesa San...

Daily Fintech launches paid membership service to protect editorial independence

Bernard Lunn from Daily Fintech Advisers Ltd
20 Sep 2019
The online publisher’s move comes after five years of building a free access, ad-free model and is a signal to its almost 19,000 readers that they will continue to be the company’s sole stakeholder in its plans for business growth On 17 September 2019, Daily Fintech launched a paid membership ...

MoneeMint appoints senior industry specialist Rizwan Qazi as Chief Operating Officer.

Hassan Waqar from MoneeMint
09 Sep 2019
MoneeMint is pleased to announce the appointment of Rizwan Qazi as Chief Operating Officer and Member of The Board. Rizwan has 22 years of international experience in financial services industry where he has worked with Citi, MasterCard, Diners Club, ADIB, Argus Information and Advisory Serv...

Going for Gold - Tally Launches New Banking App Tied to Gold Ownership

Editor from Tally
18 Jul 2019
Tally has become the first banking app to offer individual banking accounts delivering seamless saving and spending in physical gold, at home and abroad. Unlike a traditional bank account, Tally gives consumers full ownership of their money, and being gold means savings are protected from inf...

Registration Opens for Abrigo’s Inaugural ThinkBIG Conference Featuring CECL, Lending, and Risk Experts and Discussions

Kylee Wooten from Abrigo
02 May 2019
Austin, Texas, May 2, 2019  – Abrigo, the leading technology provider of compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions for community financial institutions, has opened registration for its inaugural ThinkBIG Conference, set for September 24-26 at the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orla...

Pannovate announce the launch of their latest innovative front end - LaunchPad

Emily Baum from Pannovate Limited
27 Apr 2019
Pannovate Limited, the successful digital solutions company headquartered in the UK, have created the missing piece for neo banks coming to market. LaunchPad is an accumulative application that puts the customer experience first. Pulling information from multiple sources, LaunchPad offers a host ...

Big Product Improvements Unveiled for Abrigo’s BSA/AML Software

Kylee Wooten from Abrigo
15 Apr 2019
Austin, Texas, April 15, 2019  – Abrigo, the leading technology provider of compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions for community financial institutions, announced the company’s innovative product roadmap for 2019 improvements to its Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (BSA/AML) and...

TurnKey Lender Launches Psychometrics

Diana from TurnKey Lender
26 Mar 2019
Singapore - March 26 - TurnKey Lender, a provider of intelligent lending automation, decision management, and risk mitigation solutions, announces the launch of a new app called TurnKey Lender Psychometrics. It allows lenders worldwide to safely evaluate borrowers even in cases when there’s no ...

Amount Delivers Seamless Digital and Mobile Lending Platform to TD Bank

Jenn Pratt from Keeton PR
25 Mar 2019
Amount, a leading technology provider for financial institutions, today announced a strategic partnership with TD Bank. TD Bank, a top ten U.S. bank, is leveraging Amount's platform to power the bank's TD Fit Loan, which launched in August 2018. This initial offering allows consumers to consolida...

Braintri co-developed IKO mobile app voted world’s best twice

Iwona Drabot from Braintri
19 Feb 2019
Warsaw, Poland, February 19, 2019. For the second year in a row, IKO, the mobile app of the CEE financial industry giant PKO Bank Polski, took top spot in a global industry ranking of mobile apps of 100 worldwide banks. The ranking was published by the British Retail Banker International magazine...

Abrigo’s Robert Ashbaugh to tackle CRE and CECL at American Bankers Association Conference for Community Bankers

Kylee Wooten from Abrigo
08 Feb 2019
Raleigh, N.C., February 8, 2019 – Abrigo, the leading technology provider of compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions for community financial institutions, has announced that Robert Ashbaugh, Executive Risk Management Consultant at Abrigo, is among the expert speakers slated for the America...

MoneeMint secures strategic funding to become the first Digital-only Ethical Bank in the UK and Europe

MoneeMint from MoneeMint
30 Oct 2018
London, 30th October 2018: MoneeMint, soon to be the UK and Europe’s first completely digital ethical bank is proud to announce that it has secured strategic funding from Ground One Ventures, a UK based private investment firm. MoneeMint aspires to engage the underserved bankable communities a...

Sageworks announces release of proprietary data to aid financial institutions in CECL preparation

Hannah Blair Rapp from Sageworks
25 Sep 2018
Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced that it will produce and distribute research and analysis using Sageworks’ proprietary data set of loan, lease and core deposit data to assist the f...

Unsustainable profits, increasing market share from financial intermediaries and poor market valuations puts UK and European banks at risk, warns new study

Jonathan Lenz from CubanEight
25 Sep 2018
25 September 2018, London UK: A new study of the 50 largest banking groups in the UK and Europe has revealed that although profits have increased, future profitability is at significant risk. The UK & European Banking Study (EBS), launched today by zeb, one of the leading strategy and manage...

Bank of the Pacific selects Sageworks Banking Platform to further business development and mitigate portfolio risk

Hannah Blair Rapp from Sageworks
28 Aug 2018
Raleigh, N.C., August 28, 2018 – Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced that Bank of the Pacific has chosen to partner with Sageworks to propel commercial loan activity and mitigate portf...

Sageworks chosen by CFO Tech Outlook for Top 10 Fintech Solution Providers 2018 list

Hannah Blair Rapp from Sageworks
07 Jun 2018
Raleigh, N.C., June 7, 2018 – Sageworks, a financial information company that provides lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced that the company has been included in CFO Tech Outlook magazine’s Top 10 Fintech Solution Provers 2018 list. The lis...

Sageworks, one of the country’s first Fintech companies, is acquired by Accel-KKR

Hannah Blair Rapp from Sageworks
18 May 2018
Menlo Park, CA, May 18, 2018—Today, Accel-KKR and Sageworks announced the purchase of Sageworks by AKKR, a private equity firm based in Menlo Park, California. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed. Sageworks is the leading provider of financial software and information products to ...

Heedbook launched a system for assessing customer satisfaction with the help of AI

Dmitry Romanov from Heedbook
17 May 2018
<a href="https://heedbook.com">Heedbook</a> is a service for assessing customer satisfaction, employee efficiency and cross-sales. It works with live video and audio from the employees desktop webcam, mobile cam or screen video (for teleconference service). Analyzing results of facial emotion ...

Peoples State Bank partners with Sageworks for digital transformation

Hannah Blair Rapp from Sageworks
26 Apr 2018
Raleigh, N.C., April 26, 2018 – Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced that Peoples State Bank selected the Sageworks Banking Platform to boost efficiency and scalability of its commercia...

Robo-advisors, the new wave in FinTech

Yvar de Zwaan from SGG Group
15 Mar 2018
FinTech has ushered in a wave of disruption in financial services, and robo-advisors have now become a reality in wealth management. Robo-advisors are becoming increasingly popular as they offer automated, algorithm-driven financial planning services with little to no human supervision. The money...

Bitwala Launches Europe’s First True Equity Token As Part Of Its Upcoming Token Sale

Sophie Smithers from CryptoLandPR
17 Oct 2017
German Fintech Bitwala Releases Equity Tokens In Pursuit Of Building The World’s First Blockchain Bank With Decentralised Ownership Berlin, Germany - October 17th 2017 14:00 CEST - Bitwala, the blockchain development, finance and cryptocurrency experts based in Berlin, will launch Europ...

Wala Supports Dala Token Sale To Power Free Financial Services For the Next 3.5bn Consumers

Sophie Smithers from CryptoLandPR
17 Oct 2017
Blockchain-based platform powered by the Dala Token will make basic banking available for the global unbanked and underbanked Wala, the world’s first borderless, rewards driven, financial platform, is to be the launch partner of the Dala Token Sale that will begin at 6pm UTC on 25 October. ...

UK FINTECH LEADERS SEEDRS & NUTMEG JOIN FORCES WITH FIDOR BANK

Lucy from Seedrs Ltd
10 Jul 2017
Today, Seedrs announces that it will be the sole equity finance provider in a new partnership with Fidor Bank, the first challenger bank to launch in the UK back in 2015. The Digital marketplace offered by Fidor signposts banking customers to innovative sources of alternative investment including...

Meniga Raises €7.5M Equity Round to Advance Personalisation in Digital Banking

Rebecca Geller from Geller PR
07 Apr 2017
New Investment Enables Further Expansion into Data Driven Personal Finance & Targeted Marketing products 9 am, 7th April 2017 - Meniga, a leading provider of digital banking technology for the world’s largest banks, raises a €7.5M funding round led by Nordic venture capital investor Industrif...

CAST LIGHT FINANCIAL LAUNCH TOOL FOR IFRS 9

Phil Grady from Castlight Financial
17 Dec 0014
Award winning, Glasgow-based fintech company Castlight Financial has launched a powerful customer bank transactions categorisation tool, designed to meet the challenges and opportunities faced by the banking industry in the run up to the implementation of banking standard IFRS 9 on 1 January 2018...

The Arab Bankers Association and In Focus Broadcasting Launch "ABA TV - Future of Banking"

david ward from in focus broadcasting ltd
17 Dec 0004
NEWS PROVIDED BY The Arab Bankers Association (ABA) Dec 04, 2017, 03:30 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE LONDON, December 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arab Bankers Association (ABA) is working with In Focus Broadcasting to make this ground-breaking programme for the Arab banking sector to cre...