WorkFusion’s $50m funding to fuel robotic process automation plans
Series E investment round bags some serious money.
Innovation
Mortgage platform Lender Price teams with Ellie Mae
The pricing engine is right.
Swift gpi: move forward or fall behind
Making the case for banks to become Swift gpi-ready.
YapStone touches Couchbase for payments platform propulsion
Looking for inspiration with a cloud-native data sensation.
Uber gives drivers a lift with Visa Debit Card
But it also faces tax problems in Denmark.
PayTech Awards 2018: meet the judges
The event is taking place on 13 July in London.
Banking marketeers Micronotes hits right notes with $3m funding
US firm focuses on helping banks strengthen customer relationships with PaaS.
Symbiont brings the blockchain to mortgagetech
Teams with technology investment firm Ranieri Solutions for exploration plans.
Fintech and credit unions: risk vs. reward
“Fintech can’t turn you into something you aren’t.”
Fintech funding round-up: 4 April 2018
Stars DriveWealth, Starta Ventures and BitPay.
IBM joins Sovrin Network for decentralised digital identity desires
Another chapter in IBM’s blockchain plans.
It’s time to level the playing field in cards payments
The right IT infrastructure and payments technology are a critical investment.
The Innovation Readiness Playbook
Top payments performer edition.
Analytics firm MapD shoots for the cloud
San Francisco-based company unveils MapD Cloud.
Interview: Red Hat – fuelling open innovation in banking
Discussing cloud titans, blockchain and why the company is at the heart of the open source community.
Ripple joins Hyperledger Project
Ripple CTO says “developers will be able to access Interledger Protocol in Java for enterprise use”.
Bambu goes global with new office and talent
In fintech, when the going is good, the good go global.
Five ways AI is disrupting financial services
Whether you realise it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over the world.
Banking Technology April 2018 issue out now
You sought symmetry. And fintech came to you.
Pindrop is tongue-licking good for biometrics
Jaws drop as it launches Tongueprinting.
None better than non-clients for Citi mobile app
It’s an open house as non-Citi clients can connect their accounts to app.
No downside for Flipside Crypto with $3.4m funding grab
To date, Flipside has operated as a sort of data-driven angel network.
PayTech Awards 2018: recognising successful individuals and teams
Celebrating people that make things happen!
“Active sponsors” and other mythical creatures of banking innovation: a survival guide
Sponsorship is a double edged sword.
IoT gets chatty with DeepMind’s cloud text-to-speech
Will allow IoT devices to talk back to you.
Fintech funding round-up: 28 March 2018
Stars Canopy, Spring Labs, Equitise and Xinja.
The gift of the gab: three chatbots leading in insurtech
Chatbots can do more than just use a script to move customers through a sales funnel.
Fintech funding round-up: 27 March 2018
Features Candex, MarketInvoice and Konsentus.
White paper: The transaction effort score – driving revenue through reduced customer effort
Welcome to the Avoka Transaction Effort Score.
Invisible payments come to Highbury
WoraPay tests out its order and pay platform as part of the Arsenal Innovation Lab.
Denizen unveils “world’s first” global account for banking
Users can receive money in one country and pay it out in another.
Swift goes universal for real-time payment tracking
gpi Tracker extended to all payment messages.
Top fintech stories this week – 23 March 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Europe emerging as insurtech hub – Accenture
Accenture analysis finds investment growth dwarfing North America.
Fintech funding round-up: 22 March 2018
Features Averon, eToro and Constellation Digital Partners.
RBC first Canadian bank to open API developer portal
Royal Bank of Canada is initially offering five API packages.
Executive decision making and emergent tech: the opposite of cricket
If decision makers want to learn, they should put in the effort. Or pass the controls to people who do.
Affirm introduces in-store capabilities; integrates virtual cards with Apple Pay
Affirm InStore, an alternative to traditional credit cards at brick-and-mortar merchants.
Fintech funding round-up: 21 March 2018
Features M-BIRR, Funding Xchange, MarketInvoice, Digital Reasoning and regtech bouncer Enforcd.
Introducing PayTech Awards!
Celebrating excellence in the use of IT in the finance and payment industry, and the people who make it happen.
