No downside for Flipside Crypto with $3.4m funding grab
To date, Flipside has operated as a sort of data-driven angel network.
Innovation
PayTech Awards 2018: recognising successful individuals and teams
Celebrating people that make things happen!
The Finbourne supremacy fires up with wealthtech club
Working on a shared cloud-based investment management platform.
“Active sponsors” and other mythical creatures of banking innovation: a survival guide
Sponsorship is a double edged sword.
FCA welcomes EU agreement on Brexit
Everyone be cool. This is Brexit.
TSB joins lendtech race with Business Marketplace
Plans to become UK’s first high street lender to link to rival’s digital deals.
IoT gets chatty with DeepMind’s cloud text-to-speech
Will allow IoT devices to talk back to you.
Fintech funding round-up: 28 March 2018
Stars Canopy, Spring Labs, Equitise and Xinja.
Uber looking for Dutch payments licence
It’s a drive to diversification.
PKO turns to Coinfirm for blockchain-based documentation verification
Polish bank goes for full implementation of Trudatum platform.
Deutsche Börse and HQLAx to build securities lending solution on R3 Corda blockchain
They seek to improve collateral management of high quality liquid assets.
The gift of the gab: three chatbots leading in insurtech
Chatbots can do more than just use a script to move customers through a sales funnel.
Mizuho and IBM develop new AI tech for financial market forecasting
Will use Dynamic Boltzmann Machine to help forecast market trends and volatility.
PaymentComponents and Natech partner for open banking push
AplonAPI will be integrated with Natech’s core banking solution.
NatWest unleashes ClearSpend app for company card control freaks
Free mobile app for commercial card customers.
Broadridge acquires Israeli digital tech firm ActivePath
To strengthen its governance and communications businesses.
MUFG wanders over to ExaWizards for magical AI alliance
Plan to conduct development studies of online finance products.
Banco BNI Europa unveils account opening via videoconference
Portuguese bank brings verve and vivacity to video world.
Fintech funding round-up: 27 March 2018
Features Candex, MarketInvoice and Konsentus.
Tesobe powers API for Forty Seven Bank
London-based banking start-up will use open source API solution.
Predictive analytics firm Endor raises $45m in ICO
Israeli firm combines computing and MIT-developed proprietary social physics.
White paper: The transaction effort score – driving revenue through reduced customer effort
Welcome to the Avoka Transaction Effort Score.
Invisible payments come to Highbury
WoraPay tests out its order and pay platform as part of the Arsenal Innovation Lab.
New Zealand trials open banking
ASB, BNZ, Datacom, Paymark, Trade Me and Westpac join the pilot.
SimbaPay unleashes Pan-African remittances chatbot
In collaboration with e-payments and commerce firm Interswitch.
What is the India Stack and why is it no longer the dream it used to be?
The good, the bad and the ugly of the India Stack (or Aadhaar Stack) by Devie Mohan.
Denizen unveils “world’s first” global account for banking
Users can receive money in one country and pay it out in another.
New Nordic Fintech Alliance launches
Four find warmth and friendship in the Nordics.
Planet of Finance unleashes RoboComplianceOfficer for worldly wealthtech
Solution to help FIs with client onboarding, risk and compliance.
Commerzbank digs digitally deeper for corporate clients
First bank in Germany to offer its corporate clients a fully digitised advisory process.
Bank of England angles in on fintech hub scene
News revealed at yet another fintech conference in London.
Revolut’s a disposable raver for virtual cards
UK start-up plans to combat fraud with disposable virtual cards.
Mind trials contactless donation terminals with Santander
Mental health charity using terminals in ten shops in UK.
Say ciao to new ItaliaFintech association
Group represents 19 firms with nearly one million clients.
Australian neobank Xinja launches card and app
“This isn’t a finished product, it’s a step in our journey with our customers.”
Swift goes universal for real-time payment tracking
gpi Tracker extended to all payment messages.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 March 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Europe emerging as insurtech hub – Accenture
Accenture analysis finds investment growth dwarfing North America.
Fintech funding round-up: 22 March 2018
Features Averon, eToro and Constellation Digital Partners.
Square boxing clever for slow cash flow
Releases its new Instant Deposit service for UK businesses.
