Tagged: digital transformation

February 19, 2020 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC Bank (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited) (SGX: O39), has appointed Celine Le Cotonnec to the institution’s newly created role of chief data and innovation officer. Le Cotonnec will be reporting directly to Bahren Shaari, the CEO at… Read More

February 11, 2020 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (NYSE:DB), a global investment bank and financial services company based in Frankfurt, Germany and dual-listed in New York Stock Exchange and Frankfurt Stock Exchange (with  €1.34 trillion assets), is reportedly inviting project bids from Amazon, Google and Microsoft in order to upgrade its… Read More

February 10, 2020 @ 4:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HDFC Bank, the largest private sector lender in India, recently appointed Anjani Rathor as the institution’s new group head of digital banking. Rathor’s official designation is chief digital officer at HDFC. He will be tasked with taking the institution’s digital transformation strategy forward, the bank… Read More

February 8, 2020 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore banking group DBS has reportedly completed the first all-digital trade financing settlement, which was conducted on the country’s newly developed Network Trade Platform (NTP). The platform is blockchain-based but NTP appears to go out of its way not to focus on the technology and… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 6:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Traditional banks and other financial institutions need to go through a cultural transformation before they can successfully undergo a digital transformation, according to the chief technology advocate at Starling Bank, whose statements came during a recent panel discussion. The recent debate, which was an initiative… Read More

February 7, 2020 @ 1:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multinational financial giant Standard Chartered (SC) has teamed up with Infor, an established business cloud software firm, in order to digitize the financial industry supply chain for SC’s customers. By using the “Infor Nexus” network, created by New York-headquartered Infor, SC aims to assist its… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yseop, a 12-year-old France-based software development firm, recently introduced an enterprise-level natural-language generation (NLG) automated report generation solution, called the Augmented Analyst, in order to assist financial service providers with their digital transformation efforts. Yseop has reportedly worked cooperatively with Moody’s, BNP Paribas, and Sanofi… Read More

February 5, 2020 @ 9:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Maharashtra (BoM), a small public sector Indian bank and lender, reportedly topped the list of all the country’s banking institutions for digital transactions performed in December of last year. This, according to India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity). Meity data shows… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Indian government recently revealed its Union budget for the FY 2021. Following the announcement, it appears that the nation’s Fintech industry has been given special attention, as Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman proposed on February 1 to introduce a policy for creating data center… Read More

February 3, 2020 @ 10:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CIBC’s mobile banking app recently turned 10 years old, notably marking a decade since the institution became the first large Canadian financial institution to provide an innovative mobile banking app to customers. In a February 2 press release, CIBC reflected on the key milestones the… Read More

February 1, 2020 @ 9:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based ZestMoney, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered consumer lending platform, confirmed recently that last year, it managed to record more than 125% in equated monthly installment (EMI) financing. The Bengaluru-headquartered firm noted that online EMIs comprise a large portion of the Indian economy, experiencing a record-breaking… Read More

January 31, 2020 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) and the World Logistics Council Limited (WLC) have reportedly committed to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in order to launch the Multi-Dimensional Digital Economy Application System (MDDEAS) in Malaysia. The system will be introduced with the help of local tech… Read More

January 2, 2020 @ 12:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Private lending institution PT Bank Yudha Bhakti Tbk (BYB) has revealed that its partnership with Fintech solution provider Akulaku has enhanced the bank’s digital transformation strategy by delivering several key outcomes or results. The two organizations have developed BYB’s Hands-on Application by Yudha Bhakti (HAY)… Read More

December 10, 2019 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tania Aidrus, a former director of products and payment at Google and former country manager (Singapore) for South Asia’s emerging markets at Google, has returned to Pakistan after spending 20 years working abroad. Aidrus will now be leading Pakistan into the digital age. The MBA… Read More

November 22, 2019 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Siam Commercial Bank Pcl, Thailand’s largest commercial bank in terms of total assets, is reportedly preparing to spin off its Fintech branches as the institution attempts to monetize its efforts into tech investment, at a time when its earnings from traditional lending have been relatively… Read More

November 13, 2019 @ 10:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A senior executive at CMS, a law firm working with the National Bank of Hungary (MNB) on its Fintech strategy, says Hungary is “behind everyone” when it comes to adopting the latest digital banking technology. The CMS executive stated: “Hungarians do not use sophisticated Fintech… Read More

July 9, 2019 @ 9:34 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Temenos AG (SIX: TEMN), a Switzerland-based banking software provider, announced on Tuesday it has been selected by Bank of Kigali to power the bank’s digital transformation strategy. Temenos reported: “With Temenos’ packaged and upgradeable banking software, Bank of Kigali Plc will gain business agility and… Read More

November 13, 2018 @ 4:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

LAFISE Group (LAFISE), a Latin American financial services provider, announced on Tuesday it has selected fintech and insurtech company novae to support its digital transformation. The LAFISE Group reported that as a first step in the process, the Dominican Republic locations of the group’s retail bank chain, Banco LAFISE… Read More