Money20/20 Europe: creating safe spaces – platforms and collaboration
The platformication of everything continues and large tech companies must be part of that process.
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Santander café branches in Chile include Zytronics biometric touch screens
Is it a bank? Is it a café? It is both!
UniCredit invests €3.1m in Meniga
The biggest personal finance management (PFM) deal in Europe to date.
Free financial advice service Multiply secures £1.75m investment
Multiply is ready to take off spurred by £1.75m investment.
OCBC Bank in Singapore’s first instant account opening
You can now open an account with OCBC in Singapore in less than five minutes online.
Banking Technology Awards 2018 now open for entry!
Recognising excellence in the use of IT in financial services.
First Bank teams with WorldRemit for digital money transfers to Nigeria
In 2017, Nigeria received over $22bn in remittances, making it the largest recipient in Africa.
Lunar Way picks Humio for data visualisation
Humio will provide log management for fintech Lunar Way.
Cinnober sells majority stake in Irisium to KRM22
KRM22 buys a 60% stake in Irisium, a subsdiary of trading tech firm Cinnober, for £2.6m in cash.
Caxton FX pilots direct payments with Token
Token facilitates direct payments for Caxton FX.
Money 20/20 Europe: putting the AI in certainty
AI’s potential is discussed at the Amsterdam event.
Survey on payment methods 2017 – Swiss National Bank
Survey on payment behaviour and the use of cash in Switzerland.
BBVA joins Fintonic’s lending platform
Crossing PFM functionality with a full lending platform.
MassChallenge Fintech accelerator: start-ups wanted
Big corporations increasingly say they see start-ups as friends, not enemies.
Gusto unveils Partner Directory of accountants for SMEs
Gusto launches its own Yelp for accountants.
Hanseatic Bank signs for collectAI’s B2B2C white label tech
Hanseatic Bank among the first to deploy collectAI’s B2B2C white label solution.
TD launches TD Ready Challenge to open industry to humanitarian initiatives
Canada’s TD bank opens its Ready Challenge to “world-changing” solutions.
ING pushes for open banking with SME financing platform and Yolt expansion
ING is leveraging open banking and making their SME and retail offer more attractive than ever across Europe
BPCE, Natixis and TransferWise team for affordable cross-border remittances
Transferwise enables cross-border remittances for BPCE’s subsidiaries.
Form3 teams with Arkéa Banking Services for SEPA real-time payments
The new service is “industry-first”, according to Form3.
BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank launch co-developed chatbot for traders
BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank launch chatbot for trading on the HKEX.
Money20/20 Europe keynote: the age of invisible payments (and apology from Visa)
Innovation benefits the entire ecosystem, states Visa Europe’s CEO.
Paytech heavyweights Nets and Concardis to merge
Paytech firms Nets and Concardis will merge but retain their own brands.
Emirates NBD unveils EasyHub digital kiosk
The Emirates NBD EasyHub capabilities go far beyond a typical ATM, Diebold Nixdorf says.
Switch launches CardSavr API for virtual cards
Solution for those looking to make the leap from plastic to virtual cards.
Personetics accommodates challenger banks
A new customisable, pre-packaged application lowering barriers for smaller banks.
Visa hit by payment outages across Europe
Update – 2 June – situation now resolved.
CBA customers caught in email address confusion
Australian bank says no customer data was compromised.
Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange softly launches
It’s a subsidiary of the Gibraltar Stock Exchange.
Robo-advisor Munnypot is so hot for Capita
Capita becomes a shareholder in UK robo-advice investment platform.
Instarem buddies up with BeeTech for payments on blockchain
Will use Ripple’s network RippleNet for action in Asia-Pacific and South America.
US mobile banking challenger Chime raises $70m
It also reached over one million bank accounts this month.
Orange and Google looking to fund fintech start-ups
Interested in IoT, cybersecurity, cloud and AI in EMEA.
Finicity and Mortgage Cadence team for mortgage tech
Finicity’s Verification of Assets (VoA) solution integrated with Mortgage Cadence’s loan origination platform.
Dwolla launches pay-as-you-go payment offering, Start
Out-of-the box way for businesses to move money without a large time or money commitment.
BondIT integrates bond portfolio solution with FIIG Securities
Fixed income portfolio platform BondIT inks a deal with FIIG Securities in Australia.
Ex-Simple co-founder preps developer app for launch
Shamir Karkal wants to help developers get fintech apps to market.
Arxan brings app protection tech to Android
The first cybersecurity solution to leverage Google for Android-supported Kotlin to secure Android apps.
UK start-up Tosca Money prepares to act
Social savings service powered by a digital token.
Top fintech stories this week – 1 June 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
