Tagged: digital transformation

August 22, 2022 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Glia, which claims to be the leader in Digital Customer Service (DCS), and Veritran, a  global Low-Code solutions provider, announced a partnership “to offer digital-first customer support to financial institutions worldwide.” The partnership “integrates Glia’s seamless Digital Customer Service (DCS) solution with Veritran’s suite of… Read More

August 22, 2022 @ 9:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UnionBank continues the digital transformation of its wealth management business with the Avaloq Core Platform. This will “help the bank to stay ahead of the technology curve as the financial industry continues to digitalize in the pursuit of greater efficiency and innovation.” Avaloq is “implementing… Read More

August 19, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UOB (SGX: U11) and Doxa are collaborating to “enable companies to move their procurement and trade financing processes online.” They signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) “with their client Kimly Construction Private Limited, for the execution of the trio’s first green trade finance transaction together.” This… Read More

August 19, 2022 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Bank has completed the UK’s first transaction “utilizing a digital promissory note purchase.” This “landmark” transaction significantly “increases speed of payment and paves the way for a significant increase in the use of promissory notes for a broad range of transactions.” As noted in… Read More

August 19, 2022 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Seymour Bank and Teslar Software announced their partnership “to enhance the bank’s commercial lending strategy, increasing automation, efficiencies and accessibility through Teslar’s lending process automation platform.” Seymour, Mo.-based The Seymour Bank will “use Teslar to better track documentation and monitor exceptions.” They will also… Read More

August 17, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Focused Labs, a digital transformation consultancy and software development firm,  announced it has joined the Stripe Partner Ecosystem “to help enterprises modernize their payment systems and deliver better customer experiences at check-out.” Focused Labs and Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, will “help customers… Read More

August 15, 2022 @ 11:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Virtual payments have reportedly exceeded the use of cash for the very first time in Saudi Arabia in 2021, with these digital transactions accounting for around 94% of payments completed when measured in terms of value. This, according to a recent study carried out by… Read More

August 14, 2022 @ 8:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oak Engage is reportedly deploying NatWest Group with Adaptive Intelligence which went live recently as a way for firms to enhance their digital worker experience. The Newcastle-headquartered intranet technology company, Oak Engage, says that Adaptive Intelligence should assist firms with engaging with their workers more… Read More

August 14, 2022 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Google Cloud recently revealed that it intends to expand to Malaysia in order to address rising demand for Cloud services in the Asia Pacific region. Other areas that Google Cloud is considering reportedly include Thailand, New Zealand, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Mexico, Israel, and Turin…. Read More

August 13, 2022 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd has selected financial technology platform FIS (NYSE: FIS) to enhance its core banking capabilities. ANZ New Zealand will be “the first bank outside the U.S. to utilize FIS’ Modern Banking Platform, which is deployed on Microsoft Azure.” FIS’ Modern Banking… Read More

August 11, 2022 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eagle Life Insurance Company, a provider of fixed and index annuities, has announced that it is teaming up with InvestCloud, a key player in digital transformation, “to offer access to product details about its fixed index annuities (FIAs) via the InvestCloud platform.” Via the InvestCloud… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of the Concordium Foundation and founder of Saxo Bank. He talked about the future of Internet domains. With the rise of technologies such as blockchain/DLT, crypto, and the Metaverse, Lars believes that traditional top-level domains… Read More

August 7, 2022 @ 7:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, led the seed funding round of Lifeform, which is described as “a disruptive decentralized visual digital identity (DID) solution provider.” The fund will aim to “empower the next billion Web3 users with decentralized digital citizenship.”… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zebra Technologies (NASDAQ: ZBRA), an innovator at the “front line” of business with solutions and partners that deliver a “performance edge,” recently announced that First Tech Federal Credit Union has selected Reflexis for Banking “to increase staff effectiveness and productivity and to elevate customer service.” First… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finance Secretary (in the Philippines) Benjamin Diokno recently noted that the government will be focused on accelerating the rollout of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys ID) in order to further expand public access to financial products/services while achieving “e-governance.” Former President Rodrigo Duterte had reportedly… Read More

August 1, 2022 @ 9:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nexi announced a collaboration with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) intended to innovate virtual payments services and assisting with the digitalization of SMEs, Corporates, Public Administrations and Financial Institutions across European markets via vertical value-added solutions in order to respond to specific requirements as easy to adopt… Read More

July 31, 2022 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Veritran, a global low-code solutions provider, recently announced a strategic alliance with Glassbox, a provider of digital experience analytics for web and mobile apps. As noted in the update, Glassbox and Veritran will provide a digital experience analytics solution, offering customers worldwide, both in financial… Read More

July 30, 2022 @ 10:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), an enterprise technology provider, announced a strategic relationship with the Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), one of the largest banks in the country. Through its NCR ATM as a Service solution, NCR will “run the bank’s ATM fleet as part of… Read More

July 29, 2022 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lokyata, a company focused on delivering products that digitize, automate, and scale lenders’ credit decisions, has released a number of platform enhancements “to help lenders further automate loan decisioning to save time, minimize manual work, standardize processes, and improve underwriting performance.” The company “sees particular… Read More

July 28, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) and Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) announced an expanded partnership “to help banks of every size accelerate their modernization journey.” This expanded partnership will “enable banks across varying scales to accelerate their go-to market strategies in regions including the United States, the U.K… Read More