Tagged: spain

October 23, 2024 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European digital banking platform CaixaBank consolidates its position in mobile banking and partners with Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) to enhance customer experience. CaixaBank closed the first months of the year with 4.4 million customers with cards linked to mobile devices, figures that are “on the rise,” with… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 4:14 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spanish bank Santander showed up to ring the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange today to celebrate the launch of Openbank by Santander. Openbank is a digital-only bank powered by Santander. The company explains: Openbank, a division of Santander Bank, N.A., combines Santander’s… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 11:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem is experiencing significant growth in the adoption and development of advanced technologies, with a particular “focus on software platforms, artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics.” This is the key takeaway from the fifth edition of the research study ‘Analysis of a next… Read More

August 5, 2024 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired BOSLAN, a provider of management services for large infrastructure projects, headquartered in Bilbao, Spain. With BOSLAN, Accenture will reinvent “how clients engineer and execute net-zero infrastructure projects.” By applying artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies “to asset lifecycle management,… Read More

July 30, 2024 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mintos continues to roll out the benefit of a higher interest rate for parked cash. Today, Mintos is announcing that Spanish customers may now access a liquid money market fund managed by Blackrock. The Mintos Smart Cash is a money market fund that is described… Read More

June 18, 2024 @ 8:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dineo Crédito, Spanish microlender part of the international retail leader Cash Converters group, has entered a partnership with Mambu, the cloud banking platform. The move will see Dineo Crédito migrate from its in-house core system to Mambu, where it plans to “launch innovative lending products… Read More

June 15, 2024 @ 5:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European Blockchain Sandbox Brickken, a Barcelona-based startup that tokenizes real-world assets, has been selected to participate in the European Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) Regulatory Sandbox. This regulatory sandbox will provide legal certainty for decentralized technological solutions, including blockchain, by identifying deployment obstacles from… Read More

June 10, 2024 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A survey of more than 21,000 people in Spain, the “first of its kind” to give a voice to Worldcoin users, shows just how “important” digital proof of humanness has “become in the country—and the extent to which people recognize the value provided by World… Read More

June 6, 2024 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

European payments platform Mangopay has announced partnerships with several Spanish firms, including Webel, Filmo, and Kuarere. Mangopay states that collaborating with these three Spanish firms will increase its presence in sectors such as media, entertainment, and home delivery services. Filmo is a B2B2C platform that aims… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 8:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After years at the forefront of projects and research based on artificial intelligence (AI), BBVA takes a “decisive step” in the use of generative AI in its main markets. On the one hand, it has prioritized “around 100 projects that will be developed with different… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new report by EUROCROWD titled “Crowdfunding’s Role in Catalyzing Local and Rural Development in Spain” in collaboration with the Universidad Camilo José Cela, UAM Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Centro de Investigación sobre Justicia Administrativa, and Simbiosis HUB, “delves into the extensive impact of crowdfunding… Read More

May 3, 2024 @ 8:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Outpayce, which was launched last year to evolve Amadeus’ travel payments business, has been granted an eMoney institution (EMI) license by the Bank of Spain. As a licensed eMoney issuer, Outpayce will be able “to provide regulated payment services in Spain such as accepting customer… Read More

April 26, 2024 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank has reportedly become the first Spanish bank to adhere to the Pegasus Guidelines, the first voluntary climate-aligned finance framework for the aviation sector, “designed to help banks independently measure and disclose the emissions intensity and/or climate alignment of their aviation lending portfolios compared to… Read More

April 10, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Axis Corporate, a Spanish management and technology business consulting firm specialized in financial services. Axis Corporate enhances Accenture’s strategy and technology offerings “that enable companies in Spain to reinvent their business models, more effectively manage costs and develop new products… Read More

April 10, 2024 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Santander (NYSE: SAN) is announcing the launch of a new national, digital offering in the United States under the Openbank brand in the second half of 2024. Openbank will also be launched in Mexico in the same timeframe. Openbank operates with “a technological platform designed… Read More

February 13, 2024 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NCR Atleos Corporation (NYSE: NATL) says that Banco Sabadell, a large Spanish bank, has selected Atleos as its ATM network partner to provide its customers with easy, secure access to cash and financial services outside of its branches. Banco Sabadell customers will soon be “able to… Read More

February 1, 2024 @ 7:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banco Santander has announced the appointment of Petri Nikkilä as the new global CEO of Openbank and head of the Digital Consumer Bank’s non-auto consumer business. Mr. Nikkilä succeeds Ezequiel Szafir, who “was Openbank’s CEO until last year, and will report to Daniel Barriuso, head… Read More

January 24, 2024 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Akur8, the insurance pricing solution powered by transparent machine learning, is pleased to announce that MAPFRE, the 9th largest insurance company in Europe and the 17th largest insurer globally according to S&P Global Ratings, has reportedly “selected Akur8’s RISK and RATE modules.” This choice will… Read More

January 18, 2024 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo, the cross-border payments and FX fintech, has announced that the firm is now profitable as an increasing number of SMEs explore alternatives to banks for managing their international business needs. The Barcelona-based fintech which provides “a one-stop-shop multi-currency account for corporate treasurers recorded an… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Onfido’s technology automates identity verification, “reducing onboarding time from days to minutes.” Onfido, the global enabler of automated identity verification, announced a partnership with InbestMe, a digital investment platform offering personalised investment strategies, to automate their onboarding process. With Onfido’s AI technology, InbestMe can now… Read More