ICYMI fintech funding round-up: TurnKey Lender, FairPlay, Bloom & more
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the globe.
Data & Analytics
Privacy, regulations and cross-border data sharing in finance
Discussing the value and inherent risks associated with data sharing on a global scale.
Heritage Bank appoints Mikhail Lopushanski as CISO
Lopushanski will work to strengthen the bank’s IT, digital and data security defences.
EXL, Corridor Platforms and Oliver Wyman partner up for new risk decisioning product
The solution leverages analytics, AI and cloud to deliver “instant” credit decisions to support digital lending.
US fintech Pico receives $200m investment from Golden Gate Capital
The new funds will be used to pursue M&A opportunities.
Recurring-revenue business lender Capchase secures $400m debt financing
The funds will be used to support SaaS start-ups across the US and Europe.
Neobank Kinly taps open finance fintech MX for data aggregation solutions
Kinly says it will leverage clean data and personalised financial alerts from MX to help Black American communities.
Less than two weeks until nomination deadline for Banking Tech Awards 2022
The deadline for nominations for the Banking Tech Awards 2022 is Friday 22 July.
What the FinTech? | S.3 Episode 10 | Making money work harder
In this episode of the podcast, we’re joined by Jay Swanston, chief platform officer at Moneybox.
Banking Tech Awards 2022 – call for judges
Join the judging panel for the Banking Tech Awards and be in great company of industry experts!
UK fintech Mode hires Jose Sanchez Loureda as CTO
Loureda will be tasked with helping Mode enhance its digital wallet offering.
Decarbonising data centres
Many FIs are looking to utilise external data centres to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
AML software firm Lucinity raises $17m Series B funding
Lucinity says the funding will help expand its customer base, partner network and product offering.
Banking Tech Awards USA 2022 Winner: Symphony AyasdiAI – Tech of the Future
AI does not look for a needle in a haystack, but rather for a needle in a stack of needles.
Banking Tech Awards USA 2022 Winner: Freddie Mac – Best UX/CX in Finance Initiative
Get Clarity into mortgage credit risk investing through Freddie Mac.
Congratulations to the PayTech Awards 2022 winners!
The winners and highly commended were announced in a ceremony at the Merchant Taylors’ Hall in London.
Oxbury Bank lands £20m in additional funding
The new cash injection takes the firm’s total capital raised to £68 million.
WTH are ZKPs? Making blockchain transactions private
In order to gain or have mainstream adoption of blockchain tech, it needs to be private.
Fintech start-up April secures $30m Series A to grow its embedded tax platform
Since launching in January 2022, the company has now raised $40 million in total capital.
FinTech Futures Jobs: Are you paying a loyalty tax at work?
Find your next fintech career move on the FinTech Futures job board today.
Video: SmartStream at Money 20/20 Europe – Levelling the playing field
We chat with SmartStream about how the firm is helping financial institutions keep up with new tech developments.
Bain Capital taps Chekk for KYB and KYC solutions
Chekk says its SaaS solutions “remove the pain and costs” from interactions between companies and customers.
ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Mapan, Ophelos, Lista, Vibrant and Singletrack
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the globe.
Video: Bitstamp at Money 20/20 Europe – Putting trust in crypto
We chat with Bitstamp CEO JB Graftieaux to discuss how trust in and adoption of crypto varies across the world.
White paper: Developing a futureproof payments market infrastructure – Insights from around the world
How payments market infrastrcutures (PMIs) enable safe, efficient and open payments.
Video: Kraken at Money 20/20 Europe – Keeping up with cybercriminals
We chat with Curtis Ting of Kraken to discuss how financial crime is evolving in the digital asset space.
UNO Digital Bank taps Businessnext to boost customer experience
Businessnext’s automated AI solutions will support the bank’s customer-facing managers.
Data platform SAS acquires financial risk management firm Kamakura
Together, SAS’ and Kamakura’s solutions “will prove far greater than the sum of its parts”.
Taming AI algorithms — finance without prejudice
Algorithmovigilance is growing in importance as human biases all too readily creep into AI tech.
Fintechs Stanhope and Stenn hire new CPOs as they look to scale
Groombridge will be leading Stanhope’s payments offering, while Bajwa will be developing Stenn’s financing solutions.
Europe funding round-up: Bits of Stock, Formance, Aveni, and Datia
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across Europe.
Sustainability data platform ESG Book raises $35m Series B
The new capital will be used to scale the company and further develop ESG Book’s technology capabilities.
Is standardisation the secret weapon against trade finance fraud?
How lenders can leverage technology to mitigate duplicate trade fraud.
KPMG and Microsoft partner to deliver cloud-based tax technologies
KPMG says its Digital Gateway platform, in collaboration with Microsoft, is “built with the C-suite in mind”.
UK challenger bank Recognise appoints Sahil Thapa as CTO
Recognise says Thapa “has the vision and ability to lead the Bank’s technology strategy”.
RBC partners Plaid to offer API-led connectivity with fintech services
The data access agreement will remove the need for credential sharing, enhancing security and privacy.
State of play: Money 20/20 Europe
Fintech analyst Philip Benton recaps key themes and trends at Money 20/20 Europe.
What the FinTech? | S.3 Episode 9 | Smart applications for AI and ML
We are joined by Jethro MacDonald, product manager, artificial intelligence and machine learning at SmartStream.
Qatar National Bank launches open banking platform for fintechs
QNB says its open banking APIs could transform the fintech landscape in Qatar.
Euronext migrates core data centre from UK to Italy
The move has been a strategic decision made in response to multiple factors including Brexit.
