Tagged: financial institutions

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

May 8, 2023 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, announces the launch of TS One, a cross-asset class, SaaS-based solution designed “for investing teams who are seeking access to global markets, advanced execution management tools, battle-tested risk management… Read More

May 7, 2023 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SCRYPT, the Swiss-licensed crypto trading firm offering digital asset solutions for institutions, announced a strategic partnership with London-based Fiat-as-a-Service platform Fiat Republic in order “to supercharge SCRYPT’s fiat on/off ramp capabilities, as well as improve automation of customer settlements to its institutional trading platform.” This… Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Peach Finance recently conducted a survey of fintech lenders in order to obtain their feedback and insights regarding the current state of lending.. As the fintech industry continues to grow and evolve, one of the most promising areas of innovation is lending…. Read More

April 23, 2023 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra research reveals that just one in ten financial institutions are “not currently seeking to integrate fintech solutions, indicating that 90% are actively pursuing new fintech partnerships to improve their offerings.” A key pain point is “the automation of digital workflows, with respondents saying only… Read More

April 21, 2023 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, recently announced that it has appointed Spiros Theodossiou as Chief Product Officer (CPO). An industry figure “with over 20 years of experience, Spiros previously served as CPO at cloud accounting platform DEXT.” Before… Read More

April 14, 2023 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Evergreen Subnet, “Spruce,” has been launched with an initial cohort of institutional partners that includes T. Rowe Price Associates, WisdomTree, Wellington Management, and Cumberland. Participating institutions will be using Spruce “as a testnet for a variety of applications and assets to measure the benefits… Read More

April 10, 2023 @ 10:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pairing Mambu’s cloud-native core banking infrastructure with Bitpanda’s 24/7 trading platform makes it easier for financial institutions globally “to provide investment capabilities to their customers.” Bitpanda Technology Solutions, the European Investment-as-a-Service platform, has partnered with SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) cloud banking platform Mambu “to provide financial institutions… Read More

April 6, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PostFinance, one of Switzerland’s major financial institutions and largest retail banks, partners with Sygnum, which claims to be one of the world’s first digital asset banks, “to offer its customers a range of regulated digital asset banking services via Sygnum’s B2B banking platform.” PostFinance‘s partnership… Read More

April 5, 2023 @ 6:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Embedded Banking provider announces full-year results “including 46% increase in transaction volumes and 22% growth in customers.” ClearBank Ltd., enabler of bank accounts, real-time clearing, and Embedded Banking for financial institutions, presents “the results from its 2022 Annual Report revealing the bank nearly tripled… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Federal Reserve has reportedly selected AutoRek, a global end-to-end financial data control platform, to feature in its FedNow Service Provider Showcase, which connects financial institutions with providers offering real-time payment solutions. Launching in July this year, the FedNow Service – an instant payments… Read More

April 4, 2023 @ 6:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hadhramout Commercial Bank (HCB) has successfully gone live on ICS BANKS Innovative Core banking, Digital Banking, and Islamic Banking solutions from ICS Financial Systems (ICSFS), the global software and services provider for banks and financial institutions. Hadhramout Commercial Bank is “a newly established Yemeni bank… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 10:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pidgin, a secure, real-time payments platform built for the future of payments, has partnered with Effectiv, a fraud-fighting and compliance automation platform “to help financial institutions monitor transactions to detect and prevent payments fraud in real time.” Through the partnership, financial institutions using Pidgin’s faster… Read More

April 2, 2023 @ 6:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NdcTech, a technology services firm transforming banks and financial institutions globally has successfully modernized the core banking system of Samba Bank onto the latest release of Temenos Transact. Samba Bank Limited is “a subsidiary of Saudi National Bank (SNB) KSA in Pakistan, offering personal and… Read More

March 29, 2023 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SMEs are at the heart of our economy and financial institutions need to do more to help them. It has been found that they play a central role in financial inclusion, representing around 90% of businesses globally and more than 50% of employment worldwide, according… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) announced that Kiatnakin Phatra Securities Plc., one of the leading financial institutions in Thailand for wealth management, has selected Temenos to advance its service platform. Kiatnakin Phatra Securities, “which is part of Kiatnakin Phatra Financial Group, will implement Temenos Wealth to provide… Read More

March 25, 2023 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MeridianLink, Inc. (NYSE: MLNK), a provider of modern software platforms for financial institutions and consumer reporting agencies, announced that FedChoice Federal Credit Union is live on MeridianLink Insight, the business intelligence component of the company’s multi-product platform, MeridianLink One. The credit union is already live… Read More

March 23, 2023 @ 11:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

It’s already “trusted,” fully regulated and bringing simplified and secured investing to 20+ million customers, the team at Bitpanda wrote in a blog post. Now, they’re announcing that Visa (NYSE: V) has partnered with Bitpanda, bringing Bitpanda Technology Solutions to its vast network of institutional… Read More

March 22, 2023 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arf, the Swiss-regulated global settlement banking platform, with support from the Stellar Development Foundation, is now offering what it claims is “the world’s first unsecured, short-term, USDC-based working capital financing solutions for licensed financial institutions.” Making cross-border payments faster, cheaper, and more transparent and inclusive… Read More

March 18, 2023 @ 2:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

National Australia Bank (NAB) has completed an intra-bank cross-border transaction using NAB-issued stablecoin, which represents a “world-first” by a major financial institution on a layer-one public blockchain. This pilot transaction on the public and permissionless Ethereum blockchain “involved deployment of stablecoin smart contracts for seven… Read More