Tagged: data

January 25, 2023 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) has launched a new functionality that allows customers to view, within the Nu application, the balance of all their bank accounts linked to Open Finance. The tool is still “in the testing phase, and will initially be offered to 300,000 customers that… Read More

January 25, 2023 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced the launch of ICE Digital Trade Documents (ICE DTD) for the energy industry, a configurable solution “digitizing post-trade and shipping processes for physically delivered commodities including oil, gas and petrochemicals.”… Read More

January 24, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Okredo, an open data platform that merges open data, open banking, and credit bureau functionalities, aims to give SMEs in the UK a competitive advantage by “offering access to the most recent data about other UK businesses.” Okredo will start by “introducing business linkages reports,… Read More

January 22, 2023 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ has launched its “blazing” fast Tsunami API on Arbitrum One. The Layer-2 Ethereum scaling solution has already “attracted a strong community of users and developers — with Tsunami API, builders can access instant real-time and historical data providing advanced querying functionality and vital monitoring… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 7:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chronosphere, the cloud native observability platform that puts engineering organizations back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud native complexity, has raised an additional $115 million Series C funding. New investors “include GV (formerly Google Ventures) and Geodesic Capital, bringing Chronosphere’s total funding… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finsure, Australia’s mortgage broker aggregator, has partnered with Frollo and NextGen to use Open Banking data as part of the loan application process. Finsure has reportedly “become the first Australian mortgage aggregator to turn on Open Banking access for its brokers.” In a partnership with… Read More

January 13, 2023 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyckr, the corporate KYC company providing businesses with legally-authoritative real-time data on prospective and existing customers and suppliers, has been acquired by Australian tech-entrepreneur and WiseTech Global Limited founder Richard White “through his personal investment vehicle RealWise KYK AV Pty Ltd.” Kyckr provides companies “with… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas announces a strategic investment in AccessFintech, which claims to be a leading fintech company “evolving the capital markets’ operating model through data and workflow collaboration.” The investment is being “made by BNP Paribas’s Securities Services unit, the bank’s post-trade arm.” It will “enable… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TMX Group Limited announced that it has made a strategic investment in VettaFi Holdings LLC, a US-based, privately owned data, analytics, indexing, digital distribution, and thought leadership company. VettaFi cultivates a data-driven platform, “built to empower and educate the modern financial advisor, asset manager and… Read More

January 7, 2023 @ 3:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With Singapore consumers living their lives online, nearly eight out of 10 (around 77%) would like the option to control their data instead of leaving it up to the discretion of firms and governments, according to Consumer Data Confidence Research shared by Visa (NYSE: V)…. Read More

January 2, 2023 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In 2022, several notable federal indictments, sentences, and seizures related to cryptocurrency were “made public in the United States,” the CertiK team noted. To understand the extent and nature of government activity in Web3, CertiK has conducted research and analysis “on the state of federal… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nageen Kommu, CEO at Digitap recently commented on the anticipated trends for the Fintech segment in 2023. In an update shared with CI, Nageen Kommu noted that the Indian Fintech market currently stands “as the third largest Fintech ecosystem in the world and is well… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

83% of firms will increase spending “on operational excellence initiatives in 2023,” according to an update from Verdantix. AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning are “increasingly being used by industrial firms to maximise data utility.” The report from Verdantix also mentioned that “the global skills… Read More

December 22, 2022 @ 2:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the news that British lender TSB Bank was fined $48.65m ($59.07m) by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority over “a botched IT platform migration that left two million customers locked out of their accounts in 2018,” Chris Dinga, Payments Analyst at… Read More

December 19, 2022 @ 12:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

United Fintech, the end-to-end solution for banking technology, announced the 100 percent acquisition of Cobalt, the provider of critical risk and data services to the FX and digital asset markets. The acquisition elevates United Fintech’s position “as the leading end-to-end solution connecting financial institutions with… Read More

December 18, 2022 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CEPRES, which claims to be the leader in private market data and investment technology,  announced new solutions to better handle today’s challenges in private market fundraising for both limited partners (LPs) and general partners (GPs). CEPRES Fund Screener, part of the CEPRES Due Diligence suite,… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, and BNY Mellon | Pershing, a provider of clearing and custody solutions, announced that the web-based version of the ICE Connect wealth management platform has been “integrated into BNY Mellon |… Read More

December 14, 2022 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP) announced it has opened a new Decision Science Center of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore that will deliver global data-driven solutions. The CoE will “focus on data science applications in the areas of credit and fraud risk model development and production using… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Driven by vaccination certificates, the need for identity checks in financial services, and the potential of the metaverse, governments across the world “realize the benefits and the importance of digital identity, enabling the technology to take off,” says GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prism Data, an open banking analytics platform, introduced CashScore v3, a powerful new version of its CashScore credit scoring model that leverages anonymized, consumer-permissioned open banking data “to fully illuminate a consumer’s true credit risk.” That deeper understanding “enables lenders to build more resilient businesses… Read More