Tagged: financial institutions

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

June 3, 2023 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, is pleased to announce the appointments of Stephanie Cheung and An Hoong to its team in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Both bring relevant experience “from previous roles at… Read More

June 3, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HAYVN, a digital asset focused financial institution delivering Payments, Trading, Custody, Asset Management and Research services, has obtained a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT). This regulatory approval “complements HAYVN‘s existing regulatory framework in the UAE, the… Read More

June 2, 2023 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

White Clay, a company that helps community and regional financial institutions improve relationships and increase revenue, announced the launch of its Treasury Management Pricing and Profitability solution. Determining the pricing and profitability of treasury management relationships can often be manual and cumbersome, “requiring bankers to… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebacks911, which claims to be the first company dedicated to providing chargeback remediation services to the world’s largest banks and businesses, released its 2023 Chargeback Field Report, “giving retailers and financial institutions an understanding into the current state of friendly fraud, first-party misuse and chargeback… Read More

May 29, 2023 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eltropy, the digital conversations platform for community financial institutions, is excited to announce that Cyprus Credit Union has chosen Eltropy as its new partner to modernize the credit union’s digital communication strategy. Ashish Garg, co-founder and CEO of Eltropy, said: “We’re thrilled to welcome Cyprus… Read More

May 27, 2023 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank launches Smartphone TPV, a solution designed for businesses, professionals and the self-employed of any size and sector, “enabling them to easily accept card payments of any amount from mobile devices, without the need for an additional device, as was previously necessary.” It is reportedly… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), which claims to be a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, announced a collaboration with Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform, to enable financial institutions and payment providers to utilize ACI solutions on the platform. The collaboration… Read More

May 26, 2023 @ 2:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SC Ventures, Standard Chartered’s (LON: STAN) innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, has exited its stake in Metaco SA, a Swiss-based tech firm offering critical software infrastructure that enables institutions to issue, secure, manage and trade digital assets. SC Ventures was “one of the early… Read More

May 24, 2023 @ 11:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HAYVN, a regulated digital asset focused financial institution, announced “strong” HAYVN 20 Cryptocurrency Index Fund returns to investors during Q1 2023, despite increasing volatility in the digital asset market. The index fund for cryptocurrency assets “offering clients a diversified, low cost, and regulated strategy to… Read More

May 23, 2023 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In today’s digital age, financial institutions are increasingly “moving their services online,” according to an update from Jumio. However, with this “comes the risk of fraud and identity theft, which can have severe consequences for both the financial institution and the consumer.” This is “where… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset class provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, announces the appointment of Simarjit (Sim) Johal to Head of Asia Pacific (APAC), reporting to Rob Flatley, Chief Executive Officer. Sim will reportedly “join TS Imagine’s Executive Leadership… Read More

May 19, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MDOTM Ltd, the global provider of AI-driven investment solutions for financial institutions, announces new ChatGPT-powered features in Sphere, its investment platform for institutional investors. The custom integration with ChatGPT APIs will “leverage Sphere’s proprietary insights and explainability data to generate bespoke portfolio commentaries.” These new… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Emirates Islamic, which claims to be one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, has launched the new Emarati Absher Business Account designed exclusively “to provide a comprehensive suite of premium banking solutions for Emarati start-ups in the UAE.” The new business banking… Read More

May 16, 2023 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hyphe, the digital asset liquidity provider for financial institutions, has received a certificate of compliance to ISO 27001 Information Security Management by internationally-recognized certification body, BSI Group. The certification “reinforces Hyphe’s commitment to the highest security standards ahead of Europe’s new Markets in Crypto Assets… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services umbrella of the Linux Foundation, announces the addition of Fidelity Investments as its newest buy-side member joining the foundation’s growing community of leading asset managers, hedge funds, and financial services firms. Fidelity’s membership “represents a continued… Read More

May 12, 2023 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MX, which claims to be an industry leader in Open Finance, announced that Data Access, formerly MXaccess, is now “available for free to financial institutions and data providers.” Data Access enables financial institutions and other data providers “to help consumers connect to all the financial… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra has announced that Banco Sofisa, a nationally ranked São Paulo, Brazil-based financial institution known for its Sofisa Direto digital bank, has partnered with Finastra “to implement Vector Risk, a market and credit risk solution.” Delivered via Finastra’s FusionFabric.cloud and hosted on Microsoft Azure, Vector… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 11:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eltropy, the digital conversations platform for community financial institutions, announced it has added new use cases – including fraud prevention – and new deployment models for its Video Banking technology, “enabling community banks and credit unions (CFIs) to offer branch-like experiences to their customers and… Read More