Software-as-a-Service/SaaS


FinReach extends digital reach to Austria and Spain

German digital account exchange provider FinReach has expanded into Austria and Spain – meaning its service is now used by over 500 banks in three countries. In Austria, FinReach has partnered with, amongst others, banking group Raiffeisen Austria, which includes 434 banks and has 1.7 million customers. In terms of the Spanish market, Self Bank, […]

Cheddar on mission to help software developers monetise faster

It’s a tale as old as tech start-ups – a software developer creates a new app and is convinced it will take the world by storm. The only problem? No idea how to monetise the brilliant creation. Xconomy (Banking Technology‘s sister publication) reports that a US fintech start-up based in Bloomington, Indiana, called Cheddar aims […]

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank goes live with Intellect’s core banking system

Utkarsh Small Finance Bank, a microfinance institution in India, has rolled out Intellect Design Arena’s core banking system. The bank received its licence last year, and according to Intellect, one of the key requirements for Utkarsh was to have a joint liability group solution that would enable it to provide group loans to the microfinance […]

Bank of Ireland’s new CEO reviews tech revamp

Bank of Ireland’s new CEO is understood to be reviewing its five-year €900 million modernisation initiative – aka Project Omega – according to the Irish Times. As Banking Technology reported last year, the new set-up will be hosted by Capgemini. The bank was known to be evaluating a joint Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering from Temenos and […]

ERI and Swisscom team for hosted core banking tech and ops

Switzerland-based core banking software provider ERI has joined forces with another domestic IT firm Swisscom to offer private-banking and wealth management outsourcing services to banks and financial institutions operating in the Swiss financial centres.

Avaloq maintains momentum with massive earnings rise

Avaloq has reported impressive earnings growth for the first half of 2017 due to investment in its banking suite and the “accelerating trend of the market” towards digital, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and transaction processing services. For H1 2017, the firm says compared to the same period last year, adjusted EBITDA increased 257% to CHF 36.3 million […]