2022: Top five movers and shakers
FinTech Futures recaps the year’s top movers and shakers.
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2022: Top five crypto developments
FinTech Futures takes a look back at some of the year’s top crypto developments and stories.
2022: Top five partnerships
FinTech Futures takes a look back at some of the year’s top new fintech partnerships.
2022: Top five core banking deals
FinTech Futures recaps five of the top core banking deals of 2022.
2022: Top five fundraising rounds of the year
FinTech Futures recaps the top five fundraising rounds this year.
Top five fintechs and neobanks of 2022
FinTech Futures takes a look back at some of the year’s top new fintechs and neobanks.
2022: Top five regulations and fines
FinTech Futures takes a look back at some of the year’s top regulatory stories of 2022.
2022: The year of fintech job cuts
FinTech Futures takes a look back at a bruising year of job cuts in fintech.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos taps Wolters Kluwer for regulatory compliance
CGD, Portugal’s largest bank, will leverage the Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) service from Wolters Kluwer.
UK’s Recognise Bank secures £25m funding from PV27
The fresh funding brings Recognise Bank’s total funding to date to over £95 million.
ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Moneyhub, Kredito, OneBanx and more
A handy round-up of the recent funding endeavours of fintech companies across the globe.
FinWise Bank taps Finastra for core banking solution
FinWise says it selected Finastra to propel its banking business and build on its fintech partnership lending programme.
Coastal Community Bank hires Barb MacLean as head of tech
MacLean brings to the role more than two decades of experience, having spent over 21 years at Celero Solutions.
Splitit and Worldline ink North American BNPL deal
Initially, Worldline plans on integrating Splitit into its North American processing platform before expanding into other geographies.
Cboe Clear Europe hires Vikesh Patel as president
Patel joins from interbank cooperative Swift, where he was most recently head of securities.
Fintech Galaxy snaps up Egypt’s Underlie to boost regional open finance
Fintech Galaxy will leverage Underlie’s open banking APIs expertise to speed up market penetration in Egypt.
Ethereum-focused Aztec Network lands $100m Series B
The Series B was led by a16z crypto and saw participation from A Capital, King River, Variant, and others.
Network International appoints group chief business transformation and technology officer
Network’s new hire Sandeep Chouhan brings over three decades of experience working in consumer banking and payments.
Nine UK banks link up to form company protecting access to cash
The company’s aim is to provide cash access, deposit and basic banking services where they are needed, across the UK.
Monex Europe hires Tim Philip as global operations director
Prior to joining Monex, Philip spent seven years as global chief operating officer at fintech firm Salary Finance.
eBook: The gap in financial services and customer service innovation
There is a major gap between customer satisfaction perception by financial organisations and the reality.
Webinar: Digital lending 2.0 – fulfilling new customer expectations through technology
Rocket Mortgage, Five Star, Salesforce discuss how technology can help address the challenges lenders face.
Webinar: Achieving service excellence with Salesforce for retail banking – UMB Bank use case
UMB Bank shares its experience of migrating to Salesforce and the impressive results.
eBook: Financial services – embracing a new service model for the digital world
Customer service transformation in the digital world is accelerating – here’s what it means for banks and FIs.
White paper: How mortgage-as-a-service levels the playing field for minority and first-time homeowners
How industry leaders leverage mortgage-as-a-service to increase minority and first-time homeownership.
Wells Fargo fined $3.7bn for loan, mortgage and deposit mismanagement
Wells Fargo must pay more than $2bn in redress to 16 million affected consumers and a $1.7bn civil penalty.
Jordan Kuwait Bank taps Codebase for digital onboarding and instant credit services
The bank will utilise Codebase Technologies’ Digibanc platform.
Mechanics Cooperative Bank selects Finastra’s Payments To Go solution
The bank is expanding its partnership with Finastra to introduce new business payments services.
Workday appoints Sequoia Capital’s Carl Eschenbach as co-CEO
After January 2024, it is expected that Eschenbach will take up sole CEO responsibilities.
NetGuardians tapped by Bank of Africa for fraud prevention software
NetGuardians says building out an “anti-fraud culture” is essential to the growth of pan-African banking.
Mangopay appoints Carlos Sanchez Arruti as CFO
Arruti joins from Amazon and brings more than two decades of experience to the role.
The Bank of London names Gavin Hewitt as new chief financial officer
Hewitt will lead the firm’s accounting, finance and corporate treasury operations.
South Korean tech firm behind super-app Toss raises $405m Series G funding
Tonic Private Equity led the Series G round along with a number of existing investors.
JP Morgan invests in Indian paytech ISG, buys stake in Viva Wallet
JP Morgan is aiming to enhance digital transactions for its corporate clients in APAC and Europe.
Crypto exchange Binance.US to acquire Voyager assets in $1bn deal
Voyager says the bid “sets a clear path forward” for customer funds to be unlocked “as soon as possible”.
UK regulators fine TSB £48.6m over “operational resilience failings”
The FCA says technical failures in TSB’s IT system led to customers being unable to access banking services.
The What the FinTech? podcast | Season three’s jailed buzzwords
We run down all the buzzwords our podcast guests wanted gone from the industry this year.
LSEG looks to boost post trade offering with Acadia acquisition
The deal is the latest in a string of acquisitions for LSEG this year.
Solaris shakes up management board as it strives for profitability
The move is linked to a new target operating model and the firm’s new CEO, Carsten Höltkemeyer.
What the FinTech? | S.3 Episode 20 | 2022 in review
In the final episode of the year, we take a look at some of the biggest fintech trends of 2022.
