Tagged: banking

May 2, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra announced that First Citizens Bank of Iowa and Minnesota, a family-owned community bank headquartered in Mason City, Iowa, has “expanded its collaboration with Finastra, migrating Finastra’s Fusion Phoenix core solution from on-site hosted to the cloud.” The bank will leverage its new core capabilities… Read More

May 2, 2023 @ 10:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Banking as a Service Provider Griffin, has appointed Marina Gorey as Chief People Officer. Griffin states that this marks a new phase for the Fintech, which was recently authorized, subject to restrictions, as a UK bank by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA). David Jarvis, CEO and… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mr. Tharith Panpiemras, Assistant Governor of the Financial Institutions Policy Group, announced that after the Bank of Thailand (BOT) released the Virtual Bank Licensing Framework for public consultation “between January 12 and February 12, 2023, the BOT reportedly received questions and helpful feedback from stakeholders… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gilles Gade, CEO at Cross River Bank, notes that they recently “closed the first quarter of the year strong and on target despite a turbulent macro environment.” It’s worth noting that Cross River Bank, a top Fintech enabler, is a target of a Federal Deposit Insurance… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

In another sign of the flagging global economy, Germany-based digital bank N26 has announced a 4% reduction in its employee headcount. N26 is a fully licensed bank receiving approval in its home country. N26 operates in various European countries. At one point, it took a… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, the global provider of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions to accelerate digital transformation, has released a partner-authored paper featuring insights “into the banking sector and projections for innovation-driven growth.” The report, the first in an annual series, “incorporates contributions from fifteen global… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 5:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mutual Vision, a community-owned technology provider, announced it will adopt Mambu’s cloud banking engine. Mambu will “underpin Mutual Vision’s services and bring a unique proposition to its expanding customer base of 27 building societies and banks in the UK.” Mutual Vision provides “a digital platform… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America’s digital marketplace bank, recently announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. Scott Sanborn, LendingClub CEO, said: “We delivered a solid quarter driven by our strategic advantages, including over 15 years… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Glia, the provider of Digital Customer Service (DCS), announced a voice banking solution for the Glia Interaction Platform. The new feature is “an extension to its turnkey AI-powered Glia Virtual Assistants (GVAs) to support dial-in phone interactions.” This provides “a single, native virtual assistant across… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, reportedly reached the milestone of 80 million customers in Latin America “in the first week of April 2023, where it maintains operations in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.”… Read More

April 28, 2023 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda are pleased to announce that Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien, which forms part of Austria’s major banking group, has become the first major traditional bank in the European Union “to move into digital assets through a planned collaboration with Bitpanda Technology Solutions.” Since launching their digital Investment-as-a-Service… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dukascopy Bank and Clear Junction have partnered in order “to provide licensed electronic money institutions and payment institutions with a one-stop solution that satisfies their banking and payment needs.” The partnership demonstrates “how different organisations can work to complement one another.” For some time now,… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase has reportedly been certified as carbon neutral according to The CarbonNeutral Protocol, the global framework for carbon neutrality. Working with Climate Impact Partners, specialists in carbon market solutions for climate action, Backbase claims it “has offset its independently verified 2022 carbon emissions of 7,029… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maybank & Maybank Islamic have launched the You Save & Pledge, We Donate #ForYou campaign, which is described as “a unique, first-of-its-kind savings campaign that offers customers both the opportunity to win cash prizes as well as a chance to donate to charitable organizations.” This… Read More

April 24, 2023 @ 11:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open finance firm Brankas has announced a new integration that will allow MPT DriveHub app users in the Philippines to reload using their active Philippine bank accounts. MPT DriveHub users can now “choose from a wider range of reloading options as they top up their… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 3:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, which claims to be the world’s first RiskOps platform for financial risk management, has released its latest report – The Human Impact of Fraud and Financial Crime on Customer Trust in Banks. The report, “based on research of 4,000 consumers in the UK and… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commonwealth Bank is expanding its range of green financing to support home loan and personal loan customers “to enhance the energy efficiency of their homes, and purchase electric and hybrid vehicles.” The Green Loan is described as being “a low, 10-year secured fixed rate and… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, a digital bank that reports over 27 million retail customers worldwide, has announced a successful finalization of “a direct connection to Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) financial network.” By joining more than 3000 financial institutions including the world’s biggest banks already participating in SEPA,… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, which claims to be a leading provider of embedded banking solutions, has appointed Lindsay Hodges “as their new Director of Product Management and Client Success for the Americas.” Hodges’ addition to the team is reportedly “one of the latest efforts in BankiFi’s dedication to… Read More

April 18, 2023 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra announced that Plaid, the open finance provider, is now integrated within Finastra’s Fusion Digital Banking platform. The partnership, delivered via Finastra‘s FusionFabric.cloud open APIs, “provides financial institutions of all sizes within the Finastra ecosystem with account verification tools, making it easier and more secure… Read More