Monzo challenges Starling with joint account launch
Starling has had a head start.
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VTB Bank in Armenia updates mobile and online services
Only 7% of transactions were made online in the first six months.
TSB’s April IT crash leads to £107m loss
Results in a loss of customers and increased post-migration costs.
UK bank Secure Trust selects nCino for digital lending ops
Bank will use nCino’s system for real estate financing.
Fairstone Financial’s lending on fire with Fiserv
LoanServ will consolidate multiple records to decrease response times.
OCBC Bank turns tellers into digital ambassadors
Wants to upskill its workforce.
Faster Payments issue affects UK banks
Problems for Halifax, Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Monzo.
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Sberbank in Slovenia teams with Token for open banking push
Slovenia’s seventh largest bank seeks to move beyond PSD2 compliance.
Kassir acquisition just the ticket for Tinkoff
Kassir will sell tickets via bank and mobile app.
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The potential gains and benefits to global economics and society are on the horizon.
Metro Bank unveils open banking developer portal
Built in collaboration with Google’s Apigee team.
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Taking place on 13 December in London.
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Citizens Financial launches digital bank
Divine banking providence – aka Citizens Access – comes to Rhode Island.
UK Faster Payments suffers seriously slow service
Issues started Sunday 8 July and backlog remains.
Banking problems return to TSB
Customers reporting online issues again.
Equifax and Consents Online in open banking pact
Will develop solutions for UK consumers and small businesses.
Sberbank now supports Google Pay
First bank in Russia to do so.
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UK regulators want banks to offer resilience brilliance
BoE, PRA and FCA call for feedback from firms and financial market infrastructures.
Autosoft and Finja power Allied Bank’s branchless banking
Pakistan-based bank in digital drive.
Dutch savings bank LeasePlan makes the jump to Ohpen’s cloud tech
We talk with Pieter Aartsen and Angelique Schouten, global board members at Ohpen.
JP Morgan Chase’s mobile app Finn goes nationwide
Finn by Chase is designed for millennials in the US.
Coventry Building Society selects Temenos for digital revamp
UK-based society opts for T24 core banking system.
Banking Technology Awards 2018: celebrating most innovative projects of the year!
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Georgia’s TBC Bank launches digital neobank Space
SaaS engine Mambu powers new autonomous business.
Merrill Lynch app makes mobile merry work of paperwork
Part of its digital expansion strategy, focused on mobile features.
Australian challenger bank 86 400 launches
Team includes former ANZ CEO and ex-Metro Bank founder.
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper comes to HSBC USA
Robots relish retail banking.
Commerzbank taps Google for mobile payments in Germany
Google Pay is the way.
French savings firm Cashbee preps for flying launch
Offering automated, digital cash deposits and savings.
Standard Bank SA faces IT crash, again
ATMs and online platforms were affected, according to reports.
Lloyds banking app crashes over weekend
Saturday not so sweet for Lloyds, TSB, Halifax and Bank of Scotland.
Banco Sabadell’s venture hub InnoCells acquires lendtech Instant Credit
It aims to grow its digital retail vertical.
Financial sector organisations must forge ahead with video or risk getting left behind
Fantasy has quickly become reality.
Top fintech stories this week – 22 June 2018
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IBM criticism brings more blues to TSB tech issues
Big Blue says go-live criteria to prove production wasn’t ready.
Visa reveals over 5m payments affected by June outage
Half of which were in the UK.
Scottish banking start-up Nexves readies for launch
Offers financial platform which operates like a bank account.
