Tagged: digitalization

August 17, 2022 @ 2:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ReceiptHero recently announced that it has joined the Visa Fintech Partner Connect—a program designed “to help Visa’s issuing clients quickly connect with a vetted and curated set of technology providers.” Visa Fintech Partner Connect is “an initiative that provides financial institutions and merchants in Europe… 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 15, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

John Mitchell, Co-founder and CEO, Episode Six, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Episode Six is a payments technology company, which recently entered into a strategic relationship with US-headquartered Mode Eleven. Mode Eleven and its subsidiary, Summit National Bank, have selected Episode… 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 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 9, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open document and data platform specialist Legado has acquired the consumer and B2B bill management tech from WonderBill. Launched in 2016, London-based WonderBill “allowed consumers to manage all their household bills and subscriptions.” The company was “backed by Shell Ventures, Shell’s corporate venture capital arm.”… 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 @ 9:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SC Ventures recently revealed that it has introduced Appro, which is a Fintech that digitizes and enhances the retail banking customer experience. Supported by SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s Fintech investment and ventures unit, the “bank-agnostic” platform intends to signifiantly reduce the time taken to finalize… 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 6, 2022 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Unstoppable Domains is pleased to announce their partnership with GMO Internet Group, which operates Japan’s largest domain registration service, Onamae.com, “with more than 28 million domain registration records.” Via this partnership, GMO Internet has “launched a brand new registration service, ‘CryptoName by GMO,’ offering NFT… 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 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

July 27, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (Santander CIB) and SAP Spain reached an strategic partnership with the aim “to boost digitalization across Global Transaction Banking services by co-innovating in solutions around the concept of invisible banking, improving client-to-bank connectivity, providing financial tools to help its clients… Read More

July 23, 2022 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Arvest Bank, a community bank with over $26 billion in assets, announced a five-year partnership with Google Cloud to “enable and accelerate its multi-year digital transformation strategy.” The announcement “follows the bank’s partnership with technology leader Thought Machine, and comes on the heels of its… Read More

July 22, 2022 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FinTech North is announcing a partnership with digital sandbox provider NayaOne, which will see the two organizations build a marketplace for Northern Fintechs “to showcase their capabilities, access datasets and test ideas.” The platform, which is set to launch this summer, will “provide an exclusive… Read More

July 22, 2022 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

InvestCloud, which claims to be the international leader in digital transformation for the financial industry, recently announced that it is supporting Rabobank, one of the Netherlands’ largest banks, in order “to provide digital financial planning for all its customers, from private banking to retail clients.”… Read More