JCB pilots Japan’s first fingerprint authentication chip card
Teams with Idemia for biometrics and contactless innovation.
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PayTech Awards 2018: recognising most innovative projects and services
Enter by Friday, 20 April!
Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban invests in Billshark
Bill reduction service Billshark receives some serious street cred.
Emirates NBD goes blockchain for its “Cheque Chain”
Integrates blockchain technology into bank-issued cheques.
Wirecard’s boon mobile payment tech looking Fitbit
Teams with wearables brand to offer contactless payments using Fitbit Pay.
Fintech funding round-up: 17 April 2018
Features Santander InnoVentures, Creditas, Konsileo and ArchOver.
Lithuania plots virtual limited liability companies on blockchain
Nation will let VLLCs be remotely managed using blockchain.
UK’s Coventry Building Society in IT recruitment drive
More than 80 IT roles on offer as digital revamp takes shape.
Scale-Ups seeks fintech start-ups
Make a beeline for B-Hive’s innovation platform.
BBVA to invest $50m into Chinese venture capital fund
The fund has a special focus on artificial intelligence.
Equiniti Riskfactor gains foothold in Canada
Equiniti Riskfactor has gained its first client in Canada – Baron Finance.
U Account unveils cash pay-in for current account customers
50,000 customers feeling fine with sublime cash pay-in time.
Coinbase acquires Earn, appoints first CTO
The deal is valued at $100 million.
Data analytics firm Ephesoft moves into mortgage tech
Document capture and data analytics firm Ephesoft unveils Ephesoft Transact for Mortgage.
IBM finds firm blockchain ground with Marsh proof of insurance pilot
Applying blockchain technology for first commercial proof of insurance.
Openbank extends Temenos deal to wealthtech
Openbank has extended its contract with Temenos to include the latter’s wealthtech offering.
White paper: Solving the identity problem in PSD2 and GDPR
Insight into how legislation mandates regulated firms.
Metro Bank sets its Insights on Personetics’ AI
Will be used for money management through bank’s mobile app.
PayTech Awards 2018: Woman in PayTech Award
Celebrating the spirit of inclusion, diversity, and creativity.
Fintech Fellowship open for applications – addressing skills gap
An £8,000 award to a postgraduate student studying a fintech-related course at a UK university.
Barclays UK Ventures in pursuit of innovation
BUKV will work as a start-up, will partner with fintechs and invest in them.
Euronext vexed by brief technical glitch
“Critical issue” affects traders in Netherlands, Belgium, France and Portugal.
OCBC Bank Singapore’s first in instant digital card issuing
Within minutes of applying for an OCBC Bank card, you could be using it via Apple Pay.
Moneyhub integrates with Monzo and Starling; Yolt reaches customer milestone
Integration galore – it’s all about open banking.
MetLife EMEA calls for insurtech start-ups
Prize is a $100,000 contract to develop and pilot solutions with the insurance firm.
Nigerian lendtech Fint unleashes loan marketplace
Calls itself the nation’s “first loan marketplace”.
Standard Chartered brings eXellerator innovation lab to Hong Kong
Shiny, speedy and 10,000 square feet.
NZCU South migrates to new core banking system, Oracle Flexcube
Project part of broader core banking replacement programme.
Allai allys with Flinks for insurtech and AI
Canadian start-ups combine in clever collaboration.
Goldman Sachs acquires personal finance app Clarity Money
Brings over one million customers to its online lending platform Marcus.
Where top European banks are investing in fintech – CB Insights
European banks are investing in wealthtech, lendtech, paytech, regtech and blockchain.
Agreement Express lands investment from Frontier Capital
Account onboarding specialist Agreement Express receives its second round of funding.
Regions Bank invests in lendtech firm Lender Price
The California-based mortgage tech firm gets equity funding from Regions Bank.
PeoplesBank rolls out new digital banking strategy with Gro Solutions
PeoplesBank plans to make the new Gro services available later this year.
doxo and Coinstar to facilitate cash payments for underbanked
There are 34 million unbanked or underbanked households across the US.
Town Square Bank in core banking tech revamp with Jack Henry
The Silverlake core banking system will support retail and commercial banking operations at Town Square Bank.
The Billon blockchain plan to power multi-currency cards
Teams with Igoria Trade for payments in 150 currencies.
Startupbootcamp FinTech looks for LatAm loving start-ups
It’s all lovely as all early stage firms from around the world can apply.
Paysafe to purchase iPayment
You can probably guess it’s to do with payments.
Atos in strategic partnership with low-code development platform OutSystems
Accelerating digital transformation initiatives.
