Yes Bank appoints Pankaj Sharma as chief strategy and transformation officer
Prashant Kumar, managing director and CEO of Yes Bank, says Sharma’s appointment comes “at an important juncture”.
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FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 1 September 2023
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
India’s Yes Bank draws on Zaggle to launch credit cards with spend management capabilities
The Yes Bank Zaggle corporate credit card seeks to enable businesses to tap operation efficiencies.
Yes Bank taps IBSFintech to digitise services for corporate clients
The partnership aims to enable paperless communication across treasury and trade finance processes.
Private equity firms buy stake in India’s Yes Bank as part of $1.1bn capital raise
Carlyle Group and Advent International have both agreed to acquire up to a 10% stake in the bank.
Major Indian banks join trade finance blockchain project IBBIC
The consortium promises the creation of a secure environment for processing letters of credit.
Wipro hires former Yes Bank exec Anup Purohit as new CIO
Purohit has previously worked in leadership roles at RBL, Barclays and JPMC.
Over one million users migrate from Yes Bank’s to ICICI Bank’s UPIs
The collapse of Yes Bank is causing ripple effects for UPI partners.
Yes Bank launches India’s biggest API sandbox
Private lender says ‘yes’ to fintech developer collaboration.
India’s Yes Bank gets $1.2bn takeover offer from unnamed tech investor
Stocks soared as high as 39% following the announcement.
Yes Bank uses Microsoft’s AI platform for chatbot
The AI chatbot is well-versed in the banking world.
Indian banks unveil blockchain-linked funding for SMEs
The 11 lenders include ICICI, Axis, Yes Bank and Standard Chartered.
No fun for Yes Bank over forced CEO exit
Three board members resign in India.
RBI says no to Yes Bank CEO staying on
The forced exit is a result of lack of compliance.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 18 January 2018
Features Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Jibrel Network, Yes Bank and HashCash.
Yes Bank and Nearby Tech bring cardless ATM services to India
With the aim to become the payments enabler for India.
Yes Fintech calls on fintech start-ups worldwide to apply for second cohort
Yes Bank, one of the largest banks in India, us calling for start-ups to apply for the second cohort of its Yes Fintech innovation programme.
Yes Bank and TerraPay tap into India’s migrant market
Mobile payments switch TerraPay has partnered with Yes Bank to enable real-time international money transfers to bank accounts in India – with the Indian migrant market firmly in their sights. TerraPay provides its clearing and settlement service, and via a “Rupee Drawing Arrangement”, its network partners can make the transfers to bank accounts in the […]
Yes Fintech accelerator unveils 12 finalists
Yes Fintech, the accelerator programme of India’s Yes Bank, has unveiled its 12 finalists.
Yes Bank opens fintech accelerator programme for start-ups
India’s Yes Bank is inviting fintech start-ups to take part in its Yes Fintech Accelerator Programme. The application process is open until 2nd February 2017.
Millions at risk from India ATM hack
ATMs at some of India’s biggest banks have suffered a malware attack, with around 3.2 million debit cards now at risk. Most of the affected cards belong to HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, State Bank of India (SBI) and Yes Bank. The malware potentially means unauthorised individuals can get access to the data on debit cards […]
Yes Bank goes biometric for payments
Yes Bank, India’s fifth largest in the private sector, has partnered with Lastmile.mobi to introduce the IRIS EMV POS solution. The device allows biometric authentication through iris scanning, and can act as a POS terminal as well as an ATM. Lastmile.mobi provides a cloud-based platform accessible by a biometric enabled mobile device. The solution integrates […]
PhonePe and Yes Bank unveil India’s “first” UPI-based payments app
Payments firm PhonePe and Yes Bank have teamed up to launch India’s “first” UPI (Unified Payments Interface) based mobile payments app. UPI was launched in April by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) – with Yes Bank being one of the 21 banks recently going live. UPI offers instant, online bank payments, and is […]
Yes Bank says yes to Gemalto’s mobile payments for UPI
Yes Bank has deployed Gemalto’s SafeNet Network HSM to secure mobile payment transactions for its customers under India’s recently implemented Unified Payments Interface (UPI). UPI was launched in April by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), and will go live by the end of this month with 15 participating banks. It offers instant, online […]
Yes Bank teams with Ultracash Technologies for sound-based payments
India-based Yes Bank is partnering with Ultracash Technologies to launch payments processing through sound waves. The bank, the fifth largest in the Indian private sector, says the collaboration will let Ultracash issue Yes Bank-sponsored mobile wallets and use its Immediate Payment Service (IMPS) payments platform for the processing of instant proximity transactions. Ritesh Pai, senior […]
