What the FinTech? | S.2 Episode 22 | Let’s talk about SaaS
Michel Breeuwer, general manager for the Benelux and Baltics at Mambu, joins us on this week’s episode of the What the FinTech? podcast.
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Video: fintech news pick of the week – Stripe, M1 Finance, HSBC & more
Our top pick of news from the world of finance and tech in bitesize video format, every week.
FinTech Futures Jobs: Three really great jobs to apply for this week
Exciting vacancies at OakNorth, Deloitte and Oracle. Apply today!
ICYMI funding round-up: Chip, Multiverse Computing, Kevin, APLYiD & more
Another collection of funding rounds and raises from all over the world you might have missed.
HSBC launches new BaaS offering with NetSuite
Major bank plans more BaaS services, including a new digital wallet.
Collaboration and the reinvention of banking and financial services
Banks and FIs should look to enable innovation through collaboration with the larger financial ecosystem.
BaaS platform Productfy raises $16m and forms card issuance partnership
Productfy provides companies with embeddable modules for payments, deposits, and card issuance.
Green Dot picks Temenos Banking Cloud to digitise partner accounts
Prepaid debit card firm plans to roll new system out across multiple channels.
VoxSmart acquires speech recognition platform GreenKey
Firm aims to bolster its communications surveillance offering for financial institutions.
OracleFS exec questions staying power of new cloud-focused competition
Conor Colleary says banks must ask if their partner can embrace new changes.
UK government overreliance on old tech is a wake-up call to finance
A recent report shows the UK government spends £2.3 billion a year patching up old systems.
Bahrain’s Bank ABC taps Fenergo for client management solution
Bank ABC operates across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia.
The Banking Tech Awards are coming to the USA!
The nomination deadline is 18 February 2022 with the winners announced in June.
Payments fintech Highnote emerges from stealth with $54m funding
The card issuing platform will help SMEs compete with ecommerce giants like Amazon.
Leveraging best practice to maximise the benefits of cloud technology
Firms must assess and refine their cloud adoption strategy to ensure regulatory compliance and overall resiliency.
Aussie fintech Airwallex secures $200m Series E funding at $4bn valuation
The company has now raised more than $700m in total capital.
MODIFI tops €100m valuation with €20m Series B funding
Start-up plans to grow its trade finance platform into a global trade management hub.
Regtech start-up PassFort lands $16.2m Series A funding round
PassFort intends to use the money to expand internationally.
Why finance teams are coming out of the pandemic stronger than before
Adoption of digital solutions gave CFOs the tools to keep growing during the pandemic.
ICYMI funding round-up: TomoCredit, Lightyear, X-Margin, Coinfirm & more
More funding deals you may have missed during a busy week of news.
Shortlist announced for Banking Tech Awards 2021
Congratulations to all of this year’s finalists.
E-commerce fintech SellersFunding secures $166.5m investment
US fintech plans geographical expansion and increased headcount.
B2B payments platform Melio lands $250m investment at $4bn valuation
The firm says the Series D capital will be used to accelerate its expansion through partnerships.
PayTech Awards 2021 Winner: Volante – Best Real-Time Payments Solution
Delivering a clear roadmap to a real-time payments infrastructure.
First Horizon Bank partners Wipro to support VirtualBank cloud migration
Wipro says it worked with six other companies to streamline VirtualBank’s cloud migration.
DevOps platform Copado lands $140m funding
The firm plans to use the cash raised to expand its testing software.
Irwin secures $20m in Series A funding round led by K1
The investment will help further the fintech’s mission to upgrade the capital markets software offering.
SEC threatens suit over Coinbase crypto lending product
Coinbase’s CEO and chief legal officer admonish US markets regulator over lack of clarity.
Trade surveillance fintech Eventus secures $30m Series B funding
Eventus will use the Series B cash to continue its growth.
Railsbank hires Stuart Gregory as new chief product officer
Gregory joins from fintech firm Wise, having previously worked for Paysafe and Visa.
Fintech software firm Veritran hits $225m valuation with Trivest investment
Veritran’s enterprise low-code platform facilitates billions of transactions annually.
Databricks hits $38bn valuation with $1.6bn Series H round
Data and AI firm plans to turbocharge adoption of its ‘lakehouse’ data management architecture.
White paper: Accelerate financial services innovation
Read this e-book to discover the benefits of Open Source hybrid cloud technologies financial services organisations.
Technical brief: Scalable, actionable anti-money laundering infrastructure
Open source AML solutions offer lower costs, rapid technology evolution, and broad community-based innovation.
Sun Life taps AWS as cloud tech provider in digital transformation push
The Canadian firm says the partnership will expedite cloud adoption and boost innovation.
Data availability and disaster recovery: lessons for banks and fintechs
Fintechs and banks should have a foolproof disaster recovery strategy in place to avoid data loss.
eBook: Three data trends in financial services
How banks, brokerages, and fintech start-ups can collect, store, analyse, and share data easily and securely.
Goldman Sachs hires AWS exec to boost asset management division
Kamlesh Talreja joins to improve client experience for Goldman clients.
Video: Compass Plus on developing a new universal payments processor
FinTech Futures interviews Maria Nottingham, Executive Vice President of Compass Plus.
Is a change of approach required to benefit from cloud services as critical infrastructure?
It’s a fine balancing exercise of facilitating and encouraging innovation and adoption of cloud integrated services.
