AXIS Capital launches insurtech investment arm
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AlphaPoint’s blockchain fuels crypto exchange DCEX
DCEX is using Ripple’s digital currency, XRP, as its base currency.
ebankIT to power digital banking for Canada’s Coast Capital CU
Canada’s largest credit union by membership turns to ebankIT.
Insurance marketplace CoverHound is Intellirent’s best friend
US-based marketplace partners with rental marketing and tenant screening platform.
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Legal & General invests £3m in lendtech Smartr365
UK Software-as-a-Service company gets a cash boost.
Bank Leumi to sell card business to Warburg Pincus for $682m
Warburg Pincus opens its fintech warchest yet again.
Barclays battered in Current Account Switch Service contest
Latest CASS figures reveal the winners and losers.
Fintech infrastructure firm C88 gets $28m funding
Funding round led by Experian, alongside many other investors.
MyFirmsApp on best behaviour with messaging app
Staying smart for the UK’s smartphone soft spot.
TransferMate finds €21m investment mate in ING
They want more SME customers and corporate clients.
Chase Pay and Samsung Pay partner for retail action
JP Morgan Chase takes its payment ambitions up a gear.
GMEX takes gold-coated stake in Usave Blockchain
All part of a plan to build a digital exchange for physical gold.
Poland’s Horum Bank readies for launch abroad
Seeking a licence from one of the Baltic countries.
CLS and IBM furnish fintech with hosted blockchain service
Duo unveils services hosted on DLT platform LedgerConnect.
mBank and Commerzbank prep pan-European challenger
Project Kopernik (Copernicus) will initially target Germany.
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City of London Group to acquire Acorn to Oaks for £1.4m
A2O focuses on SME and insurance products.
Yoyo tops 1m user milestone
UK-based mobile payments and loyalty marketing platform on a high.
SoftBank, Yahoo Japan and Paytm make mobile payments mammoth
Smartphone payment service called PayPay. Genius!
Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission launches fintech hub
CySEC will also look for regtech action.
Stripe lines up APIs for programmable payment cards
APIs rule for US mobile payments firm.
Isbank opens API portal in Turkey
Initially offering 14 APIs for developers.
Monzo challenges Starling with joint account launch
Starling has had a head start.
CloudTrade secures £2m investment from Calculus Capital
Cloud-based docs are finally in demand.
Thomson Reuters Financial & Risk and Blackstone create Refinitiv
Will be a standalone company. And should lead to shorter headlines.
UK regulator clamps down on crowdfunding
Financial Conduct Authority proposes changes to rules and calls for feedback.
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.
Feedzai to help Credorax fight merchant fraud
Feedzai uses big data technology to stop payment fraud in real-time.
Switch brings voice tech to its CardSavr API
CardSavr will use natural language processing for managing cards on file.
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Starling faces payment and app issues, again
The bank struggled with its payment processor in the past.
Payments firm Flywire flying with $100m funding
Singapore investment firm Temasek led the Series D round.
Hitachi and KDDI trial biometric payments on blockchain
They aren’t KDDI-ing with their coupon settlement system experiment.
Banking Trojan Kronos reborn
New version rebranded Osiris and is being sold on underground markets.
MBT Bank outsources core banking tech to Jack Henry
MBT Bank has signed for Jack Henry’s Silverlake (core banking) and Banno (online and mobile channels).
Coinbase unveils crypto e-gift card for Uber and Google Play
All enabled via its partnership with WeGift.
Deutsche Bank debuts digital signatures for corporates
Accelerated account openings have arrived.
Infosys’ Finacle core banking system gains new taker in Myanmar
Ayeyarwaddy Farmers Development Bank in tech overhaul with Infosys and ACE Data Systems.
