Tagged: financial institutions

July 29, 2023 @ 6:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ING announced the appointment of Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer and member of the Management Board Banking. Görkem will take up his position “on 1 September, succeeding Ron van Kemenade, who stepped down effective 30 April 2023.” Görkem is currently “the chief operations officer… Read More

July 26, 2023 @ 10:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FalconX, which claims to be the most reliable digital assets prime brokerage for the world’s leading institutions, is releasing the only crypto derivatives offered by a CFTC-regulated swaps dealer. These contracts are settled “against indices administered by CF Benchmarks, the FCA regulated cryptocurrency index provider.”… Read More

July 25, 2023 @ 4:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Climate engagement solution, ecolytiq, is partnering with cloud banking platform Mambu to make scalable, effective climate action solutions easily accessible for financial institutions. ecolytiq’s climate engagement product suite “will be available on the Mambu marketplace that serves 110 million end users.” The partnership will offer… Read More

July 23, 2023 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY Mellon (NYSE:BK) announced it is now live on the Federal Reserve’s new instant payment rail, the FedNow Service, making it one of the first banks to begin sending and receiving payments from participating institutions and support payment activity through settlement or liquidity services. FedNow… Read More

July 20, 2023 @ 5:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Shinhan Bank, SCB TechX, and an unnamed financial institution in Taiwan have announced the successful completion of a stablecoin remittance proof-of-concept (PoC) pilot, according to a release. The PoC was reportedly built on the Hedera network, a high-performance blockchain. The pilot was said to have… Read More

July 18, 2023 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Shira Brezis, CEO & Co-founder of Redefine, the “first” end-to-end security tech for DeFi investors. Dr. Shira discussed major issues financial institutions are concerned about regarding safety and security for web3 investing. Redefine helps enable secure transactions, monitor in real-time,… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 11:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutions face unique challenges when it comes to executing digital asset transactions efficiently, according to an update from Talos. The digital asset market is “highly fragmented” across numerous exchanges, platforms and dealers globally. At Talos, they are committed “to simplifying institutional adoption of digital assets,… Read More

July 17, 2023 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zodia Custody, an institution-first digital asset custodian by Standard Chartered in association with Northern Trust and SBI Holdings, is announcing its collaboration with Hidden Road Partners, the global credit network for institutions, to provide secure access to digital assets for institutions. As a result of… Read More

July 8, 2023 @ 1:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As trilogue negotiations take place on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) proposal later this month, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published a position paper, “outlining its recommendations for negotiators and calling on them to focus on ensuring that the… Read More

July 5, 2023 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial institution is launching a new job portal “to attract people with technological backgrounds in the different countries where it has a presence.” The Group expects to end 2023 “with over 2,600 new hires of this type of professionals, 1,000 of which will be… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Salesforce launched Personalized Financial Engagement, a new solution to help financial institutions use AI, real-time data and CRM to manage customers’ financial plans and deliver intelligent, personalized financial insights at scale. And with Financial Services Cloud, Marketing GPT and Data Cloud, marketers at financial institutions… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sardine announced the formation of SardineX, an industry-wide, independent consortium to curtail payment fraud by bringing together established financial institutions and emerging fintech organizations to establish trust across multiple payment rails. Founding members reportedly “include Chesapeake Bank, Visa, Airbase, Blockchain.com, Alloy Labs Alliance, iLex, and… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 5:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitpanda has announced that Bitpanda Pro, their digital asset exchange for institutions and “seasoned” investors, is rebranding and becoming ‘One Trading.’ Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Bitpanda is one of the most successful digital asset firms in Europe. After a €30m Series A… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledger brings core tech and governance “to help institutions manage crypto trading risk and regulation with custodial trading solutions.” Ledger recently announced that the firm is “entering the institutional trading technology market with the first open network to enable custodial trading via exchange and custodial… Read More

June 23, 2023 @ 2:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Plaid introduces Plaid Beacon, the anti-fraud network for fintechs and financial institutions. Beacon is designed “to stop the chain reaction of fraud that occurs when identities are stolen and accounts are compromised.” Through a set of APIs, Beacon reportedly “enables real-time, secure information… Read More

June 21, 2023 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealth-as-a-Service platform OneVest announced CAD$17M in Series A funding as it aims to improve the wealth management experience for both financial institutions and their customers. The investment round, “which is led by OMERS Ventures with participation from existing investors Luge Capital, Panache Ventures, AAF Management,… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Opensee, which provides complete data access and real-time analytics to financial institutions, has appointed Anne-Laure Delaplace to the new role of Chief Operating Officer as it “deepens its senior leadership team to drive the company on its growth trajectory.” Stephane Rio, Founder and CEO of… Read More

June 12, 2023 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial institutions (FIs) that “run on a true SaaS platform bounce back from market disruption nearly 2.5x faster than their industry peers,” according to new research from cloud banking platform Mambu. The Turning turbulence into triumph report “examines how personal lenders, SME lenders and neobanks… Read More

June 10, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, today announced its partnership with Allica Bank, the fintech challenger bank dedicated to supporting established UK small and medium businesses. Allica Bank was founded “to serve established UK SMEs (businesses with 10-250 employees)… Read More

June 6, 2023 @ 11:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Online fraud and financial crime prevention platform SEON has released its latest ‘Global Banking Fraud Index’, which analyzes “the cost of fraud to banks and other financial institutions around the world in 2023.” Notably, the new review by SEON highlights the following: The value of… Read More