Xero buys paperless accounting hero Hubdoc
“Business has never been so beautiful.” Awww. Pass the sick bag.
Cloud
Entrust Datacard acquires SMS Passcode
Entrust hopes to further establish itself in the authentication space.
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.
Gusto and Xero partner for payroll playtime
To enable Xero to provide full-service payroll in all 50 US states.
Analytics firm MapD launches latest platform version
San Francisco-based analytics and visualisation company stays fresh and juicy.
IBM docks with Banca Carige for $500m American JV
Looking to help Italian bank with AI, big data, analytics and cognitive tools.
Enveil unveils data defender tech
ZeroReveal Compute Fabric is revealed by cybersecurity firm.
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Inspire FCU to deploy Nymbus core banking solutions
Nymbus will replace 15 technology vendors in the process.
DefenseStorm goes down a cyber storm at NAFCU
US-based National Association of Federally-Insured Credit Unions makes its choice.
Are banks buying into public clouds?
Are banks at a turning point, or are there more important things to worry about?
InvestCloud acquires rplan for $20m in asset management advance
Deal extends its direct-to-consumer (D2C) offering for asset managers.
nCino partners with Tech Qualled to help veterans get into fintech
nCino celebrated the Memorial Day in the US with a new partnership.
Four Finastra’s a jolly good fintech fellow
And so say all of US. (Well, four firms do.)
Tradeshift Pay to take the pain from supply chain
Cloud platform will bring together supply chain finance and blockchain-based payments.
Oracle buys US firm DataScience
Adds platform to its cloud for machine learning boost.
Appian World 2018: Miami nice for drag and drop
A look at the low-code application provider’s event in Miami.
Appian unleashes contact centre platform for financial services
An “orchestration of the human and robotic elements of service”.
Fintech funding round-up: 10 April 2018
Stars JP Morgan, Access Fintech, SenseTime, Alibaba, Kaleidofin and CloudMargin.
AT&T powers Citizens Bank’s digital branch revamp
It is providing tech solutions for more than 1,100 US branches.
Banking marketeers Micronotes hits right notes with $3m funding
US firm focuses on helping banks strengthen customer relationships with PaaS.
Fintech funding round-up: 4 April 2018
Stars DriveWealth, Starta Ventures and BitPay.
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.
Fintech funding round-up: 28 March 2018
Stars Canopy, Spring Labs, Equitise and Xinja.
TD Bank in commercial lendtech revamp with nCino
Chalk up another big win for cloud-based lendtech vendor nCino.
Fintech funding round-up: 22 March 2018
Features Averon, eToro and Constellation Digital Partners.
Beacon Community Bank opts for Jack Henry’s Silverlake core banking system
The solution is supplied on a hosted basis via JHA OutLink Processing Services.
IBM betting on multi-cloud
At its Las Vegas event Big Blue goes gambling.
Privakey launches free cloud authentication service
Digital identity service provider Privakey is making its cloud authentication service available for free.
Pindrop and Aeriandi team up to combat phone fraud
Voice authentication specialist Pindrop has partnered with voice solutions provider Aeriandi.
Dream Payments and Mastercard speed up insurance payouts
Cloud-based payments platform Dream Payments has teamed up with Mastercard.
GreenKey teams with IPC to develop AI-based speech recognition solution
Will convert real-time voice into useable data for financial market participants.
Overcoming the challenges: back-up and storage
Now is a good time for banks to achieve cost-savings and regulatory compliance.
Softtek and Mambu unveil banking Platform-as-a-Service
SaaS-y engine provider partners with Mexican system integrator.
Fintech funding round-up: 14 February 2018
Special guest stars are Middleton Enterprises, Oradian, IdentityMind Global and Payworks.
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Salesforce invests in nCino
Cloud-based banking tech vendor nCino has reeled in investment from Salesforce Ventures.
