American Express (Amex) has launched a reinvented corporate program with new offerings to meet the needs of companies and their employees. The American Express Corporate Program, a suite of...
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Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofA Merrill) has introduced accounts payable optimization toolkit. The new solution analyses a company’s suppliers and determines the most efficient payment method for each...
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Florida-based Seacoast Bank has implemented nCino’s bank operating system to digitize its operations. Using nCino’s solution, the bank plans to standardize its commercial, small business administration, small business lending, and...
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Australia’s online cash management marketplace Cashwerkz said in the first quarter of 2019, total inflows on its platform rose by over 8 per cent to $578 million, while net...
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Verady, an Atlanta-based cryptocurrency accounting and audit platform, has closed an investment round led by TTV Capital, an early-stage FinTech venture capital firm. The round also saw participation from...
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London-based institutional digital securities exchange Archax said on Friday that it has partnered with enterprise blockchain software firm R3. Under this partnership, Archax will use R3’s Corda Enterprise platform...
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Huntington Bancshares Inc has appointed Zachary J. Wasserman as new senior executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective November 4, 2019. In the new role, Wasserman will be...
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Mastercard has entered into an agreement with global retailer WHSmith and its brands Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery in a move to launch online payments via...
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iSTOX, a platform that offers end-to-end issuance, custody, and trading of digitized securities, said it has appointed Oi Yee Choo as its first Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Choo will...
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Galileo Financial Technologies, a US-based API and payment platform provider, has raked in $77 million in Series A round led by venture capital firm Accel with participation from Qualtrics Co-Founder...
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Australia’s Cashwerkz Limited announced a new alliance with Volt, an Australian neobank. Through the alliance, domestic investors will get the facility to compare Volt deposit rates in real-time in...
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Direct carrier billing company Boku has entered into a partnership with Indonesia-based GoPay, the digital payments platform of Gojek. Through the partnership, Boku’s merchant customers in Indonesia will be...
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During last month's Sibos conference and exhibition in London, cloud computing came to the fore, both on the exhibition floor and in the conference sessions. Swift launched Cloud Connect, an initiative that expands options for its customers adopting cloud services. The initiative covers large public cloud providers and Swif's own private cloud platform.
Read MorePine Labs has been an innovator in India's ever-growing digital payments space. Vicky Bindra, who took over as the company's chief executive last year, spoke with IBS Journal about the company's plans to further disrupt the digital retail payments landscape.
Subscribe to read moreDuring the past few years, Indian fintech company Sarvatra Technologies, which was founded in 2000, has been helping small community banks in India integrate technology to facilitate real-time, online payments. The initial aim of the company was to offer nationwide connectivity between these small banks and their larger brethren.
Read MoreBlockchain has been one of the most hyped technologies in recent years; technology conferences inevitably featured discussions on how the blockchain could solve the problems of the world. But with the volatile performance of bitcoin and other commonly traded blockchain-based cryptocurrencies during the past year, enthusiasm for the technology has mellowed.
Subscribe to read moreThe expectations for this year's Sibos catchphrase 'thriving in a hyper-connected world' was that about 8,000 delegates would attend the London conference. In reality, more than 10,000 people made it to the fintech event, with some unofficial reports suggesting even 13,000-14,000 delegates, making it the largest, most attended Sibos to date..
Read MoreWhile real-time payments are nothing new Japan launched a system more than 45 years ago advances in technology and government support for digital payments are driving recent growth. The payments space has been experiencing aggressive growth.
Subscribe to read moreThis section is a monthly snapshot of activity in the banking technology system space. This is useful for anyone who wants to track banking system sales on a regular basis. The Who’s Bought What provides all the key details of the deal such as the bank that bought the system, the type of system, the supplier and the system name, and the country of sale.
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