What adds up to $95 billion? Q3 for Google, Microsoft and Amazon
$43.7 billion for Amazon, $27.7 billion for Google and $24.5 billion for Microsoft. And it hasn’t even hit the Christmas sales period yet.
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Case study: Hellenic Bank – building a bank through strategic partnerships
Natasha Kyprianides, group head of digital banking and innovation at Hellenic Bank, gives the lowdown on how to apply the partnership strategy in practice and achieve real results.
Regions Bank completes wealthtech modernisation project with SEI
US-based Regions Bank has gone live with the SEI Wealth Platform, following an 18-month transition of its private wealth, asset management and institutional services businesses to the new platform.
Case study: the technology behind P2P
The UK peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market has flourished in the last decade. Lending volumes among the major platforms are increasing rapidly, pushing the cumulative total above £7 billion for the first time, as the understanding of the investment model continues to grow.
Avaloq signs core banking tech deal with Bank of Asia
Bank of Asia, a start-up digital bank in the British Virgin Islands focused on companies that have ties to Asia, has signed for the Avaloq Banking Suite core platform.
Four US banks sign for DCI’s iCore360 core banking tech
A Kansas-based banking software developer, Data Centre Inc (DCI), has signed four new clients for its flagship core banking system, iCore360.
Teradata targets AWS and Azure with new data analytics platform
US-based Teradata has got Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure in its sights with the launch of Teradata Analytics Platform, offering a choice of analytic engines to get round the issue of siloes. Oliver Ratzesberger, EVP and chief product officer at Teradata, says: “Many different users have many different analytic needs and this dynamic causes […]
Castle Trust in mortgage tech modernisation project with Phoebus Software
Castle Trust has appointed Phoebus Software for all of its mortgage servicing, allowing to “significantly” reduce the time and cost it takes to service its mortgage book.
Volante extends VolPay to Microsoft Azure cloud
Volante Technologies has made its entire range of VolPay payments processing products available on Micosoft’s Azure cloud platform.
ATB Financial live on Murex treasury and capital markets tech
Canada’s ATB Financial has gone live with a new treasury and capital markets (TCM) solution, MX.3, supplied by Murex. The solution is delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis.
BIAN unveils API-ready release to boost cloud banking ambitions
The Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), a not-for-profit fintech industry body, has launched its latest release of its service landscape. Termed SL 6.0, the framework is designed to provide a “globally standardised and simplified” banking architecture structure, using a service-based architecture.
nCino is the one for ConnectOne’s cloud-powered lending
New Jersey-based ConnectOne Bank has selected nCino’s Bank Operating System for account opening, lending and portfolio management. According to nCino, Bank Operating System gives ConnectOne a single cloud-based platform, built on Salesforce, that combines customer relationship management (CRM), loan origination, account opening, workflow, enterprise content management, business process management, digital engagement and instant reporting. Frank […]
Cloud security start-up ShiftLeft de-stealths
Eyes right. US start-up ShiftLeft has emerged from stealth and wants to shift enterprise cloud security strategy from reactive to preventative. Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology‘s sister publication) reports that ShiftLeft is an alternative to finding vulnerabilities and attacks as they crop up and defending against them. Instead, ShiftLeft’s service scans application and microservices source […]
Alibaba sets aside $15bn R&D war chest to be a world beater
How do you try and become one of the biggest and most influential technology companies in the world? Just move the $15 billion you have stashed away into the R&D business.
TSB Bank awards five-year services contract to NCR
NCR Corporation has signed a five-year deal with UK’s TSB Bank to look after the bank’s 900+ ATMs and IDMs as well as provide service desk support for its employees across its branch network.
Utkarsh Small Finance Bank goes live with Intellect’s core banking system
Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, a microfinance institution in India, has rolled out Intellect Design Arena’s core banking system. The bank received its licence last year, and according to Intellect, one of the key requirements for Utkarsh was to have a joint liability group solution that would enable it to provide group loans to the microfinance […]
The tech is there so why aren’t we doing better?
New technology has been billed as a means to make us more efficient in the work place, but we are actually becoming less productive. So what’s missing from the equation? Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication) reports. The point was made by Joshua Meltzer from the Brookings Institute at the “Nordic Digital Business Summit” in Helsinki. […]
Top fintech stories this week – 6 October 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Once again fintech firms and challenger banks are hit with card payment issues
There have been another problematic 24 hours for fintech firms and challenger banks after being hit with a slew of card payments issues.
Standard Chartered takes TradeIX and Infor route for digital trade finance drive
Standard Chartered is using TradeIX’s TIX blockchain platform and Infor’s GT Nexus Commerce Network for two separate digitalisation efforts in trade finance. The TradeIX platform enabled Standard Chartered’s unnamed client to “help its customers increase their payment terms whilst maintaining the company’s receivables at current terms”. The financing was offered by Standard Chartered with credit […]
Use the Salesforce Luke… for your retail banking
Salesforce has unleashed “Financial Services Cloud for Retail Banking”, a new application that lets bank employees have a “complete view” of their customers and work collaboratively. New features in the application comprise a retail banking data model and console. This includes all customer data – such as bank accounts and personal identification documents – which […]
Bank of Ireland’s new CEO reviews tech revamp
Bank of Ireland’s new CEO is understood to be reviewing its five-year €900 million modernisation initiative – aka Project Omega – according to the Irish Times. As Banking Technology reported last year, the new set-up will be hosted by Capgemini. The bank was known to be evaluating a joint Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering from Temenos and […]
Cloudy with a chance of Microsoft for TSB’s digital banking
TSB has selected Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Dynamics 365 cloud solution as part of its digital banking revamp for its eight corporate centres and 550 branches. Microsoft 365 integrates Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security into a solution to help the bank’s 8,500 employees. Dynamics 365 delivers a cloud-based suite of applications […]
IT services business AMS systems PSF acquired by Calligo
Calligo, a global cloud solution provider, has purchased AMS Systems PSF, a Luxembourg based IT services business that provides managed services and cloud infrastructure to the financial sector. Financial terms were not disclosed but the acquisition means big things for Calligo. Not only does it allow further expansion, but also access to AMS Systems’ technology […]
Deutsche Börse selects SmartStream RDU for regtech hub
Deutsche Börse Group has signed for the SmartStream Reference Data Utility (RDU), to use its managed service and tools for Deutsche Börse’s upcoming Regulatory Reporting Hub.
Gulf Coast Bank & Trust turns to nCino for cloud-based lending
Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Bank & Trust has gone live with nCino’s cloud-based Bank Operating System, “increasing the efficiency and speed” of the commercial loan process. According to nCino, Gulf Coast Bank & Trust, a 113-year-old bank with branches throughout southeastern Louisiana, identified the need to replace numerous siloed systems with a solution that would automate […]
Banking tech vendor Ohpen acquires FYNN Advice for implementation capabilities boost
Core banking tech vendor Ohpen has acquired a fellow Dutch fintech firm, FYNN Advice, which specialises in core banking software implementations.
VTB applies for UK banking licence, selects core banking system
EXCLUSIVE: Russia’s second largest banking group, VTB, is looking to launch a retail banking business in the UK, Banking Technology understands. The bank has applied for a UK banking licence, to enable it to take retail deposits.
Webhelp acquires regtech firm GreenPoint
Webhelp, a Paris-based customer experience and business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, has acquired fellow French tech company GreenPoint.
Temenos vs Finacle in Union Bank of Israel’s core banking system search
EXCLUSIVE: Union Bank of Israel (also known by its Hebrew name – Bank Igud) is looking for a new core banking system and supplier.
Infographic: UK’s cloud computing job market
According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), investment in cloud computing is expected to grow at over six times the rate of IT spending by 2020. Job meta-search engine Joblift has analyse the state of the UK’s cloud computing job market and found that, in line with the rise in investment, cloud computing vacancies have risen by over 7% on average monthly.
Nucleus Software signs TAB Capital for flagship lendtech platform, FinnOne Neo Cloud
India-based finance company TAB Capital is implementing a new lending system, FinnOne Neo, supplied by domestic vendor Nucleus Software. The solution will be delivered in the cloud.
Intel and Tencent team up for blockchain tech
Chinese investment holding company Tencent and US-based Intel have joined forces to co-operate on blockchain projects.
Two new core banking tech deals for Technisys in Brazil and Argentina
EXCLUSIVE: Banking tech vendor Technisys has landed two new deals for its flagship core banking system, Cyberbank Core, and digital channels software, Cyberbank Omnichannel.
Instabank takes risk analytics to the cloud with Provenir
Instabank, a new digital bank in Norway, has implemented Provenir’s Risk Analytics and Decisioning solution. Delivered in the cloud, the system provides “a real-time, digital lending experience” for its Instabank’s customers, Provenir says.
What we learnt at CloudSec: life, death and Twitter
Before you get too excited about the down and dirty world of cloud security, we should warn you this is more of a light-hearted report on the quirky things our sister publication Telecoms.com picked up at the CloudSec conference.
Google licks lips at thought of DCI pie
Google might be raising some eyebrows with its traditional business, but the cloud team has started down an interesting route in the world of data centre interconnect (DCI).
Top fintech stories this week – 8 September 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Infographics: the dark side of the cloud
Cloud storage is often hailed as the future of data storage in IT, but there are still risks involved. This infographic from Parker Software explains the disadvantages of cloud storage, reveals the cloud stats that aren’t commonly shared and argues there remains a strong demand for on-premises software.
Fintech funding round-up: 7 September 2017
The fintech funding is on fire. Following on from yesterday’s (6 September) action, here’s another round-up. Features ABN Amro, Cloud Lending Solutions, Dataiku, EY and Innovate Finance. Amsterdam-based ABN Amro has made an undisclosed investment in US-based Cloud Lending Solutions (CLS) – the second by the bank’s Digital Impact Fund (DIF) and in line with […]
