Tagged: cloud

June 19, 2021 @ 7:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems NV, Corp. (APPS), a Fintech holding company offering technology and financial services, has reportedly acquired Cloud-enabled software firm Clique Payments, Inc. The acquisition should allow APPS to further expand its enterprise resource planning and accounting payments integrations solutions to include QuickBooks, FreshBooks,… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 7:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a specialized payments platform, recently revealed that it has extended its partnership with Utah-based IntelliPay, a provider of an “intelligent” Cloud-enabled payment service (including alternative payment models). IntelliPay, which utilizes Paysafe’s payment processing platform, will reportedly be adding the Paysafecash online cash… Read More

June 8, 2021 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a financial services software and Cloud-enabled solutions provider, revealed on Tuesday (June 8, 2021) that Arkéa Banking Services, a subsidiary of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa and a company focused on banking and insurance services in France, has chosen Finastra’s Fusion Risk solution to help enhance… Read More

June 6, 2021 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GreenSky Capital Inc. recently revealed that it has finalized its fourth affiliated venture fund, the GreenSky Accelerator Fund IV, LP. The Fund reportedly has $15 million to invest in Canada‘s early-stage tech firms. The Fund’s limited partners are “composed of a network of private Canadian… Read More

June 2, 2021 @ 2:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraudio, a startup founded by experts from the Dutch payment ecosystem, has reportedly secured  $3.3 million in capital via a seed round. The Fraudio team claims that they’ve spent two years developing a Cloud native, centralized AI and machine learning payment fraud detection solution for… Read More

June 1, 2021 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based insurance firm YF Life has partnered with HKBN Enterprise Solutions (HKBNES) in order to offer a Google Cloud-enabled Cantonese voice chatbot. The chatbot will be supporting insurance services and is expected to be introduced in early 2022. The chatbot uses Google Cloud‘s AI… Read More

June 1, 2021 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bankable, the global developer of Banking as a Service (BaaS) solutions, Aion Bank, a full service, European licensed digital bank and credit institution regulated in Belgium, and Vodeno, a Cloud-based “360” platform for digital financial services, have unveiled as 10-year strategic, multi-layered partnership for European… Read More

May 25, 2021 @ 11:46 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paystand, a blockchain-based, B2B payments firm, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with cloud business management solutions provider, Sage, to integrate with the Sage Intacct cloud financial management system with the B2B payment network. According to Paystand, Sage Intacct customers will now be able… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bosch, Ocean Protocol represented by BigchainDB, and Fetch.ai have all joined Catena-X, in order to bring their “collective expertise” in market, mechanism, and token-based incentive design Catena-X is described as an “agile” ecosystem with automotive industry stakeholders. All firms taking part in Catena-X are working… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO), a provider of critical information, analytics and solutions, has partnered with CloudAttribution in order to integrate their performance attribution capabilities into the thinkFolio investment management platform. This latest partnership aims to complement thinkFolio’s business strategy of enhancing flexibility, interoperability and offering… Read More

May 15, 2021 @ 6:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Unicorn and stealth bank Wise (previously doing business as Transferwise) is reportedly working on a Cloud-enabled educational project in order to assist with addressing the IT skills shortage in Estonia. Estonia, which is currently home to more than 1,100 startups and 7 unicorns, has… Read More

May 12, 2021 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Napier, a provider of anti-financial crime compliance solutions, has revealed that it will be offering ClearBank, the Cloud-powered clearing bank, with its Transaction Screening system. As a purpose-built, tech-enabled clearing bank, ClearBank provides Cloud-based banking services to financial service providers, FCA-regulated companies and Fintech… Read More

May 12, 2021 @ 7:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Tide, an established business financial platform, and Sage, a provider of Cloud business management software, revealed on Wednesday (May 12, 2021) that they’ve teamed up to offer integrated banking and accounting solutions to Tide members. Developed specifically for users taking their initial steps towards… Read More

May 11, 2021 @ 1:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a financial services software and Cloud-enabled solutions provider, has decided to extend its partnership with Be | Shaping the Future, a global group offering consulting, IT and digital engagement services to the financial services sector. The partnership extension should see Be offering managed services… Read More

May 3, 2021 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Coronavirus crisis has accelerated digital transformation across the world, including the APAC region, which has resulted in many bank branch closures. There’s also been a significant increase in retail banking activities that’s supported by all-digital challenger banks. These virtual banks are digital-first and are… Read More

April 16, 2021 @ 5:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial Services TechnoVision, currently in its third year of publication, aims to offer businesses with a “robust” and “proven” foundation for technology adoption. It provides thought leadership to assist firms with navigating the “complex yet critical technology environment.” As noted in the report, “agility” and… Read More

April 15, 2021 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking technology firm Zeta is reportedly getting closer to achieving Unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more) as it continues to work with varous investors in order to close a new funding round, according to TechCrunch which cited sources familiar with the matter. SoftBank… Read More

April 4, 2021 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Banking Circle, a leading financial infrastructure developer, notes that as the first quarter of 2021 comes to an end, anti-money laundering or AML measures have been “a key focus in the industry.” The company writes in a blog post that following the… Read More

April 1, 2021 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Striim, Inc., provider of a real-time data integration service, has acquired $50 million in funding through a Series C round that was led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. Summit Partners, Atlantic Bridge Ventures, Dell Ventures, Bosch Ventures made contributions to the investment round as well…. Read More

March 30, 2021 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cere Network (Cere), which claims to be the first Decentralized Data Cloud (DDC) platform, recently announced a $5 million private round and the official launch of their platform to application developers. Republic Labs, part of Republic, syndicated the deal. The $5 million round included the… Read More