Tagged: ing

September 15, 2022 @ 12:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

With a huge sigh of relief, Ethereum supporters have declared the success of the MERGE. Ethereum has moved away from Proof of Work (POW) to Proof of Stake (PoS), thus improving the entire ecosystem. While reducing electricity usage, improving speed, and boosting scalability, the Merge… Read More

August 6, 2022 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ING will be trialing a carbon footprint tracking app offered by Fintech firm Cogo with 350,000 mobile clients. The Footprint Insight feature is being made available to clients who currently use the bank’s Insight function, which groups their income and expenditure by spending category. Footprint… Read More

July 10, 2022 @ 12:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced that it is working cooperatively with ING Bank N.V. on Project NEAR, which is ING’s pilot of the industry’s “first” UWB-based peer-to-peer payment app. The pilot program will “leverage UWB-enabled Samsung Galaxy smartphones1 to allow consumers to directly share money… Read More

March 29, 2022 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygno, the provider of Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) transaction monitoring models, has reportedly joined the recent cohort of scale-ups that will enter the ING Labs 2022 Program. During the 2022 program, Sygno will aim to bring its tech stack into ING’s transaction monitoring environment and… Read More

September 22, 2021 @ 10:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HCL Technologies, a global tech firm, has agreed to a multi-year application services transformation partnership with Lendico, which is a brand of ING Germany, in order to deliver application and engineering services to help it create a digital platform that makes business banking faster and… Read More

August 25, 2021 @ 8:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial giant ING (AMS: INGA), a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Amsterdam, reveals that it has hired Marnix van Stiphout as its Chief Operations Officer and Chief Transformation Officer (COO/CTO) and member of the Management Board Banking. Marnix will be taking… Read More

June 2, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Divido, a UK-based buy now pay later platform, announced on Wednesday it secured $30 million through its Series B funding round, which was led by HSBC and ING with participation from Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brand, DG Daiwa Ventures,… Read More

July 2, 2020 @ 12:59 am By JD Alois  |  

While we have seen other subscription management services, this is the first we have seen from a traditional bank. ING Belgium is partnering with Minna Technologies on the service that will allow the bank’s customers utilize the service all while remaining on the ING application…. Read More

January 19, 2020 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The challenger bank trend first began in Europe and has been gradually spreading to other parts of the world. Traditional banking challengers have been growing steadily and have managed to attract large investments. FT Partners’ new report, titled The Rise of Challenger Banks: Are the… Read More

January 8, 2020 @ 4:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dutch financial giant ING will spin out the bond analytics platform Katana, the latest startup to successfully complete and graduate from the bank’s Fintech incubation labs. Katana is presently among 25 other innovation projects being incubated at ING Labs, which have centers based in Amsterdam,… Read More

December 30, 2019 @ 9:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ING is teaming up with the United Nations Children’s Fund Office of Innovation, in order to test a global program in the Philippines, which aims to identify and invest in various Fintech firms that are developing solutions that could help disadvantaged youth and families in… Read More

December 23, 2019 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority of Filipinos still do not actively use online banking services with many locals preferring to visit traditional brick and mortar locations. However, an entire generation of new users in the country is now using digital banking platforms. Europe-based Global bank ING, a financial… Read More

December 17, 2019 @ 3:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The digital-only retail banking platform of ING, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation based in Amsterdam, is set to expand its product offering in 2020. The financial giant’s new services will reportedly include new payments and lending options, and various other products that… Read More

November 9, 2019 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest bank in the US by total assets, and Dutch banking giant ING led a $19.3 million round in Chicago-based Regtech firm Ascent Ascent provides a cloud-based platform that helps financial services providers to keep their business operations compliant. The… Read More

October 11, 2019 @ 3:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amsterdam-based ING, a multinational banking and financial services corporation, has joined a group of organizations to promote the development and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the Netherlands. The project is part of a nationwide plan to halt a brain drain of talented AI professionals… Read More

September 27, 2019 @ 6:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDCs are on their way. That is according to ING’s Chief Economist, Mark Cliffe. In a post and video, the global bank states: “Rapid advances in distributed ledger technology have spurred debate about the possibilities, advantages and drawbacks of central… Read More

March 30, 2019 @ 4:01 am By Xu Gao  |  

Parent Company of Shuidi Crowdfunding Receives nearly ¥500 million B-round Funding led by Tencent Shuidi, the parent company of Shuidi Crowdfunding and Shuidi Mutual Insurance, announced this week that it had received a nearly ¥500 million B-round financing. This investment was led by Tencent, and… Read More

March 11, 2019 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois  |  

ING Belgium and Netherlands accelerator program Fintech Village has announced their newest round of participants. According to ING, 121 Fintech startups applied but only 7 were selected. ING states that it wanted to address businesses that were more mature, more likely to offer innovations that… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 10:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based online investment service Wealthify announced on Thursday it was formed a partnership with Yolt, an ING created smart thinking money app, for an in-app integration. According to Wealthify, the integration will enable its customers to view their investments within the Yolt money app. This will create what… Read More

October 25, 2018 @ 3:25 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Department for International Trade has announced a series of new agreements with the Netherlands designed to boost closer collaboration with the Netherlands. The announcement coincided with a Dutch State Visit which took place on October 24th. Several of the deals included Fintech deals…. Read More