Tagged: digitalization

April 28, 2022 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY) announced that North Jersey Federal Credit Union (NJFCU) selected Symitar in order “to host its core in the Jack Henry private cloud and help enable its new technology strategy.” One of the key drivers of the core conversion was… Read More

April 21, 2022 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY) recently announced that Old Second National Bank has expanded its collaboration with Jack Henry “to support the bank’s digital and growth strategy.” Among the largest locally headquartered banks in the Chicago area, Old Second benefited from “a seven-year… Read More

April 20, 2022 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In the APAC region, regulatory authorities have reportedly been working on frameworks and guidelines in order take account of various products and services that are being launched due to ongoing Fintech innovation and the rise of emerging technologies. However, with the COVID crisis significantly accelerating… Read More

April 15, 2022 @ 12:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) has reportedly been chosen as a key partner by the Financial Ombudsman Service in order to accelerate its digital transformation efforts. Operating within the United Kingdom‘s public services sector, the Ombudsman offers free and easy-to-use services that… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Quontic Bank announced that it has introduced the “first-ever” tap-to-pay mobile payment ring to the US market. Quontic is an “innovative,” “digital-first,” and “customer centric” bank on a mission “to redefine how a bank and its customers conduct business.” Steve Schnall, CEO and Founder… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, we connected with Abhishek Singh, the Co-founder and CEO of Comdex, a decentralized synthetics protocol working towards making global financing more accessible to the multitude. Developed on the Cosmos blockchain, the Comdex protocol is building solutions to democratize finance. They use synthetic assets to… Read More

April 14, 2022 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Clara, a legal OS offering an integrated set of self-service tools to help founders digitally form, manage and scale their startups, has announced that it has secured investment from The LegalTech Fund as the platform “emerges from its beta phase, taking its total seed… Read More

April 11, 2022 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the Cloud banking platform, recently announced that Battle Financial, Inc. has selected Temenos Banking Cloud “to underpin the global markets technology stack for Battle Bank.” With Temenos core banking and payments solutions, Battle Bank will be able “to offer its clients a… Read More

April 10, 2022 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evvio, an “emerging” Fintech focused on next-gen digital commerce tech, recently announced the launch of Fluid CommerceTM. For e-commerce transactions, Fluid Commerce’s patented tech “eliminates the need for credit cards, bank accounts and third-party processors.” Fluid Commerce can be “used within and across e-commerce networks,… Read More

April 10, 2022 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

imagin, the digital services and lifestyle platform backed by CaixaBank, will be entering the Metaverse in the coming days “by way of imaginLAND.” The project will “enable the platform to launch and run initiatives in the virtual reality universe and will be available to its… Read More

April 8, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth managers may now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments via a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices may also “take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios… Read More

April 6, 2022 @ 6:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), an international firm focused on driving connected commerce for the financial and retail industries, has announced that it will “operate and manage the entire self-service banking channel for Langley Federal Credit Union (FCU).” The credit union will implement “the full suite… Read More

April 5, 2022 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, a global retail bank, payments, and shopping service, has announced the completion of its acquisition of PriceRunner, the comparison shopping service in the Nordic region “with operations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and the United Kingdom.” PriceRunner will aim to “bring new features to the… Read More

April 4, 2022 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

YouGov’s report The Future of Financial Services Report looks at the ongoing transformation of the US and international financial service industry as it “faces the headwinds of changing consumer expectations and wider industry fragmentation.” Recent data collected “paints a revealing picture of disruptions within the… Read More

April 4, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance’s Chief Technology Officer, Rohit Wad recently shared why he decided to make the leap to crypto and blockchain, and the projects that “excite” him. Rohit noted that before the COVID-19 pandemic, his mother “didn’t even use credit cards.” He added that now, she knows… Read More

April 3, 2022 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oceain Insights, a digital video interview platform that uses AI to offer Corporate Personality Assessments, has raised 78% (£156,617) of its £200,004 target from 27 investors (at the time of writing) via Seedrs with 24 days left in the firm’s crowdfunding campaign. Located in Haywards Heath,… Read More

March 31, 2022 @ 2:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eMoney Advisor, a provider of tech solutions and services that help people “talk about money,” has announced the availability of white-labeling “for its financial planning and wellness mobile application, Incentive.” The incentive is built, operated, and supported by eMoney, however, companies may provide their own… Read More

March 30, 2022 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paystand, which claims to be the leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments, has introduced the “first” corporate expense card with native crypto rewards. A technology-forward spend management platform, the DeFi Corporate Card provides instant provisioning of virtual and physical cards, as well as “advanced spend controls,… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 2:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plinqit, the “only” savings platform of its kind that pays users for learning about personal finances, revealed that its platform is now accessible via  Jack Henry’s (NASDAQ: JKHY) Banno Digital Platform. As noted in the update, Plinqit integrated to Jack Henry “using the Banno Digital… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 7:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Steven L. Schwarcz, a Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business at Duke University School of Law, notes that in the paper, titled Next-Generation Securitization: NFTs, Tokenization, and the Monetization of ‘Things’ (forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review), he has looked at the surge… Read More