Tagged: innovation

June 1, 2023 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After a long period of consistent profitability, the wealth and asset management sector is “facing rising costs, shrinking margins, and intensifying consumer demands.” Firms are looking for ways “to accelerate their digital transformations, bring more of what their clients want to the table, and bolster… Read More

June 1, 2023 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CAPE will develop property risk analytics leveraging structural attributes from Google geospatial data in order “to support innovation across the insurance industry and better protect homes and businesses” Protecting people, society, and the economy “means safeguarding homes, businesses, and other structures—especially from catastrophic weather events.”… Read More

May 28, 2023 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IntellectEU, an innovator in digital finance and emerging technologies, is now an Amazon Web Services (AWS) services delivery partner. IntellectEU will “support migration of Swift infrastructure to AWS cloud and provide integration and deployment of API channels, along with ISO 20022 advisory services.” Sigrid Wiley,… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 11:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a firm focused on digital payments, was one of nine finalists tasked with exploring innovative blockchain-based use cases for the Real Digital (Brazil’s central bank-issued digital currency, or CBDC) as part of the most recent LIFT Challenge. The company partnered with Agrotoken,… Read More

May 11, 2023 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum announces the addition of Cosmos’ native token ATOM to its expanding portfolio of regulated digital asset banking products and services. Sygnum clients “can now conveniently buy and hold ATOM on its institutional-grade platform and stake their holdings to earn attractive staking rewards” From today,… Read More

May 10, 2023 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grasshopper, the client-first digital bank built for the business and innovation economy, and Sydecar, a frictionless deal execution platform for venture investors, announced a partnership to provide Sydecar’s venture investing clients with access to digital banking products through Grasshopper’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. The partnership fulfills… Read More

May 6, 2023 @ 1:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fraud prevention firm Moonsense announced they have raised $4.2 million in seed funding and the general availability of its user behavioral and network intelligence solution to help organizations future-proof their fraud detection and prevention. Moonsense’s new approach “allows companies to better customize fraud management based… Read More

May 5, 2023 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking for the global financial services industry, today announces its partnership with Grasshopper, the client-first digital bank built for the business and innovation economy. Grasshopper will “leverage multiple nCino solutions, including Portfolio Analytics, Commercial Banking and Customer… Read More

May 3, 2023 @ 8:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Appdome, the mobile app economy’s one and only Cyber Defense Automation platform,  announced that it has released a pre-built integration between its platform and GitLab, the scalable enterprise DevSecOps platform for software innovation. The new integration is “part of Appdome’s Dev2Cyber Partner initiative to accelerate… Read More

May 1, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital Holdings Ltd. (TSX: GLXY), a financial services and investment management innovator in the digital asset and blockchain technology sector, and DWS, which claims to be one of the world’s leading asset managers, have entered into a strategic alliance with the aim of initially… Read More

April 30, 2023 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, the global provider of cloud payments and financial messaging solutions to accelerate digital transformation, has released a partner-authored paper featuring insights “into the banking sector and projections for innovation-driven growth.” The report, the first in an annual series, “incorporates contributions from fifteen global… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Valley National Bank, a principal subsidiary of Valley National Bancorp (NASDAQ: VLY), announced the launch of “a new innovation platform which will accelerate and enhance its collaboration with fintech companies to meet the needs of Valley’s customers in a rapidly evolving digital environment.” Advancements in… Read More

April 22, 2023 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of its goal to provide clients with meaningful innovation and improvement, Wolters Kluwer Enablon has released V9 2023 of the Enablon Vision Platform, its integrated risk management platform. This major release reportedly “brings valuable changes, additional functionality, and usability enhancements to the Enablon… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GitLab Inc., which claims to be the most comprehensive DevSecOps platform for software innovation, and Oracle Corporation, a global technology firm, announced the general availability of a new offering “that expands shared artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) functionalities.” Customers can now “run AI… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 9:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Payments Association, which celebrates innovation and collaboration across the payments industry, has released a new whitepaper examining the current arrangements for sharing data to prevent economic crime in the UK, “citing collaboration between regulated entities and between public and private sector is key to… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grasshopper, the client-first digital bank built for the business and innovation economy, and Ramp, the first finance automation platform and corporate card designed to help businesses spend less, announce a partnership “to provide Grasshopper’s clients with access to Ramp’s platform, including its virtual and physical… Read More

January 3, 2023 @ 9:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance has partnered with Kazakhstan’s government organizations in charge of financial technology, education, digital development, and innovation “with the goal of delivering blockchain education to 40,000 people by 2026.” To plan and execute this large-scale initiative, Binance joined forces with the Research Lab’s Blockchain Center,… Read More

December 13, 2022 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Web3 startup Nillion has closed a $20m+ fundraise from strategic partners and investors. The project is “based on a new mathematical innovation, invented by cryptography professor Dr. Miguel de Vega, called Nil Message Compute (NMC) which enables the creation of a non-blockchain decentralized network that… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital, innovation and incubation arm of Binance, is pleased “to announce that it is leading a private round II for GoPlus Security.” GoPlus Security claims it is “a leading Web3 security infrastructure provider that covers most of the major blockchain networks… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Luxembourg is a country known for its “strong” focus on innovation and is one of the world’s “leading” financial centers, and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) is pleased to announce that they will be “expanding PayPal’s cryptocurrency services to eligible Luxembourgish customers in the coming days.” The introduction… Read More