TD Ameritrade unveils $100k RIA innovation quest
Wants smart ideas for registered investment advisors.
Innovation
Sberbank in Slovenia teams with Token for open banking push
Slovenia’s seventh largest bank seeks to move beyond PSD2 compliance.
Singapore goes AI: training, incentives and regulation
Banks in Singapore take the lead on artificial intelligence (AI) training.
IBM honing blockchain development and skills at Columbia University
When academia meets business.
PayTech Awards 2018: and the winners are…
We are proud to announce the winners and highly commended at this year’s PayTech Awards!
Hong Kong banks setting up trade finance blockchain platform
With ambitions of expansion across industries and jurisdictions.
ACH Alert in record growth spurt
Tennessee-based payments fraud prevention doubles its staff in response to record growth.
Blockchain islands: Jersey launches ICO regulatory guidelines
Jersey has quietly notched up some major crypto and wider fintech achievements.
Nordic banks’ payments infrastructure plan picks up pace
The P27 project intends to launch new piece of financial infrastructure next year.
PayPal leads $50m funding round in PPRO
Citi Ventures and return investor HPE Growth Capital also participated
Insurtech Digital Risks feeling brisk with £2.25m funding
Firm offers a monthly subscription model for start-ups.
England triumph in fintech World Cup
A series of Twitter polls revealed the winner.
Kassir acquisition just the ticket for Tinkoff
Kassir will sell tickets via bank and mobile app.
EU takes issue with anticompetitive fintech
A thorough analysis by the European Parliament, but with few conclusions.
Redefining the status quo: how blockchain is decentralising software
Richard Gendal Brown, CTO at R3, looks at an intriguing paradox at the heart of our economy.
White paper: Delivering business transformations for fintech companies
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UK challenger BankNorth preps for launch
Will target the crowded SME lending market.
Analytics firm MapD launches latest platform version
San Francisco-based analytics and visualisation company stays fresh and juicy.
US start-up Dough rises to student debt crisis challenge
Lendtech strives to help students understand what they owe.
How blockchain will transform retail lending
The potential gains and benefits to global economics and society are on the horizon.
Tinkoff and Sberbank share mobile numbers for P2P payments
Available to all customers across Russia by the end of July.
Japanese post-pay outfit Paidy picks up $55m funding
Investment led by ITOCHU Corporation, with participation from Goldman Sachs.
CO-OP Financial Services brings digital power to LA credit union
Becomes fintech energy provider to Water and Power Community Credit Union.
Metro Bank unveils open banking developer portal
Built in collaboration with Google’s Apigee team.
Banking Technology Awards 2018: celebrating people that make things happen!
Taking place on 13 December in London.
Top fintech stories this week – 13 July 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Citi meets its payments Smart Match with HighRadius
Will match open invoices to payments received for Citi corporate clients.
Citizens Financial launches digital bank
Divine banking providence – aka Citizens Access – comes to Rhode Island.
Data manager Hazelcast gets new cast of customers
New faces include Lloyds, UBS, and National Australia Bank.
Gold-as-currency enabler Glint goes for £15m funding
UK-based start-up wants to shine in US and Japan.
Evry one wins with Handelsbanken’s handy wristband payments
Norwegian bank offers payments from micro bank cards in wristbands.
AEON and Fujitsu trial biometric payments
Will start in September 2018 in Japan.
Meniga to build BPER’s digital banking solution
Italian banking group turns to white-label solution provider.
Turkey launches fintech task force
Wants to make nation a global hub.
Big boy problems: the challenger banks’ challenge
In the disruption era, disintermediation is the big boys’ loss for sure, but not necessarily the disruptors’ gain.
BitGo brings right flow to Cinnober crypto exchange solutions
Will use BitGo’s crypto wallet solution.
Comdirect bank sells Ebase to FNZ Group for €151m
Fintech buys bank.
Eye in the sky: how drones can shape underwriting
Drones are hitting the mainstream – but how do they impact insurance?
Fujitsu fires up five-day blockchain production framework
For customers seeking or refining projects based on DLT.
Share-buying Dabbl app overfunded in first Seedrs campaign
Designed as a low-barrier entry for the public.
