Top fintech stories this week – 26 January 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Digital
Geezeo powers PFM platform for F&M Bank of Virginia
“Stow away” savings with Squirrel.
Banking tech round-up: 25 January 2018
Features Yolt, Chevy Chase Trust, FIS, Haven Savings Bank and Connecticut Online Computer Centre.
UK government plots cryptocurrency regulations
Amidst the drama and diatribes of Davos, two politicians open their mouths.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 25 January 2018
Starring Coinsilium Group, GMEX Technologies and Vaultbank.
Lloyds online banking goes down
Things fall apart… again.
Payfone in its element with O2 digital partnership
Initiative aims to protect mobile users from fraud.
Tradeshift explores new Frontiers with innovation lab launch
To boldly go where many other fintech firms have been before.
Expensify ends 2017 on an all-time high
US travel and expense management firm in receipt of good news.
NTT-AT to distribute Trusona ID tech in Japan
Will offer Trusona’s password-less login solution to its enterprise customers across the nation.
Unified monitoring: how banks can plan for success, not just prepare against failures
How to stay competitive among other brick-and-mortar operations.
2,000+ bank branches closed in US in 2017
Digital is all the rage now for US banks.
First Data to open new fintech centre in Ireland
US payments firm also aims to hire 150 staff from around the world.
Challenger BankiFi launches with open banking battle cry
Platform’s launching customer is Nordea’s developer portal.
Mastercard eyes biometric totality by 2019
Banks issuing Mastercard-branded cards will have to offer biometric authentication.
SoFi’s choice: former Twitter COO to take helm as new CEO
Social media’s loss is social finance’s big gain.
Trulioo launches KYC tool to connect MNOs
Will work with 24 MNOs from the US, Canada, the UK, China, India, Spain, France, and Switzerland.
Zopa enhances executive ranks with new trio
En route to its launch of a challenger bank later this year.
New UK mobile bank Countingup brings heart to sole traders
Will focus on the 4.5 million sole traders, freelancers and contractors in the UK.
Yusen Logistics favours Fiorano for digital revamp
The integration backbone for all inbound and outbound client traffic in Singapore.
A new twist on an ancient game
Lotto games have been around since before 205 BC in China, and used to finance major infrastructure projects.
Payments round-up: 23 January 2018
Features DBS Bank, Xero, WeChat Pay and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Member Driven Technologies adds four US credit unions
They all opt for Symitar Episys core banking platform.
SAP invests €2bn for French fintech innovation ASAP
Its areas of interest include cloud, machine learning, blockchain, IoT and SaaS.
Fintech funding round-up: 23 January 2018
From London to Asia. Stars Anorak Technologies, Funding Societies and Mekar.
Dwolla to power ID verification for Yahoo’s Tanda savings app
Tanda app is intended to be used as an alternative to credit cards or short term loans
Open banking: what you need to know
The landscape for financial services is changing, and the jury is still out on how the endgame is going to play out.
WealthForge tops $500m in investments processed
US-based private placement platform feeling perky.
Fintech funding round-up: 22 January 2018
Features Oval Money, TradeCore, Paytronix Systems and Hippo.
Banking tech round-up: 22 January 2018
Our southern stars are Bank Zero, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
iSignthis and Worldline finalise payments partnership
Proof that digital identity proofing company iSignthis has done it.
Lending firm Defi Solutions definitely lands $55m
The Series C funding round comes from Bain Capital Ventures.
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Three steps to improving customer engagement with AI
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Finicity’s Mvelopes gets Budget Makeover
A ten-week crash course in personal finance.
ThreatMetrix teams up with GlobalOnePay
Will power GlobalOnePay’s Sentinel Defend, a fraud detection and scoring engine.
Citi plays Cupid for university talent search
Shoot that fintech arrow to my heart!
Fintech funding round-up: 19 January 2018
Stars Varo Money, OakNorth Bank, NetPay and ISME ACE.
IBM hits growth for first time in 23 quarters
Did it in style – exceeding analyst revenue expectations by almost $500 million.
UK and France governments strike accord for fintech innovation
Tech sectors plan to get closer together with a digital conference to promote deeper integration.
