FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 3 March 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Intesa Sanpaolo
Intesa Sanpaolo partners IBM to upgrade its IT infrastructure
Intesa Sanpaolo will utilise the IBM z16 platform to bolster its cybersecurity operations.
Arvest Bank launches new lending product powered by Thought Machine
Arvest claims it is the first US bank to offer lending capabilities on Thought Machine’s core.
Intesa Sanpaolo sells Croatian merchant acquiring business to Nexi
The €180m deal forms part of a broader multi-year partnership in the merchant acquiring space.
Banking tech vendor Thought Machine receives £40m investment from Intesa Sanpaolo
Thought Machine’s Vault system will underpin Intesa Sanpaolo’s new digital banking service, Isybank.
Intesa Sanpaolo partners Thought Machine for new digital bank offering
The new digital bank will cater to the 4 million Intesa Sanpaolo customers already utilising digital-first services.
2020 review: Top 10 fintech and bank M&A deals
Despite COVID-19, the financial sector has still enjoyed some notable M&A deals.
Intesa Sanpaolo pushes for UBI Banca acquisition
The verdict next month will reveal if the acquisition can go ahead.
Intesa Sanpaolo makes €4.9bn bid for rival UBI
UBI Banca is Italy’s fifth largest bank.
Intesa Sanpaolo invests €7m into vending machine digital wallet MatiPay
The fintech will expand its operations in Europe, Japan and the US.
Intesa Sanpaolo signs Pelican for self-learning sanctions solution
Italian bank aims to reduce false positives with new software
Banque Morval and Intesa Sanpaolo unite on Avaloq’s core banking tech
The project took nine months to complete.
Italian insurtech Yolo gets €5m with Intesa Sanpaolo backing
The firm just closed its Series A and is looking abroad.
Intesa Sanpaolo goes Orbian for supply chain support
Italian bank gets help with receivables financing.
Accenture buys banking tech vendor SEC Servizi
Firm looking for core banking and digital action in Italy’s financial sector.
Fingerprints all over Intesa Sanpaolo’s biometric contactless card trial
The card is provided by Gemalto through the bank, with technology from Zwipe.
Oval Money shapes up nicely with Intesa Sanpaolo backing
Italian bank also takes stake in the automated savings platform.
Intesa Sanpaolo Private Bank swaps ERI’s Olympic for Avaloq’s core banking tech
The new system installed on a Business-Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) basis.
Banca IMI consolidates trading business on Murex MX.3 platform
The investment bank has consolidated all front office trading activities on a single platform – MX.3 from Murex.
Intesa Sanpaolo teams with iwoca for SME lending
SME lender iwoca and Italy’s Intesa Sanpaolo are partnering to provide Intesa’s SME clients with credit products. The partnership coincides with an investment in iwoca by Neva Finventures, Intesa Sanpaolo’s fintech venture capital arm. Maurizio Montagnese, chief innovation officer at Intesa Sanpaolo, adds that the “industrial synergies” between the firms “could be significant in the […]
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Intesa Sanpaolo and EBA Clearing complete first pan-European instant payment test
Italy’s largest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, and EBA Clearing have successfully completed their first user testing activities on Dovetail’s solution for EBA’s pan-European real-time payment platform. Among the institutions funding the new EBA infrastructure, Intesa Sanpaolo is the first one to connect to the test system. The new infrastructure will provide a real-time payment processing […]
Intesa Sanpaolo sends PIN codes to customers via digital channels
Italy’s largest retail bank, Intesa Sanpaolo, is working with Gemalto to deliver PIN codes to customers via SMS, web and mobile banking app. Gemalto describes the project as “the world’s first comprehensive e-PIN notification service”.
Custodian bank trio cut T2S asset servicing deal with Clearstream
Post-trade services institutions Clearstream, BNP Paribas Securities Services, Intesa Sanpaolo and BBVA have formed a tie-up in Europe, which they say is aimed at better asset servicing n Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain under the ECB’s forthcoming T2S project.
