Blockchain record-tracker Factom gets $6m investment
FastForward Innovations shows interest in blockchain record-tracking company.
Software-as-a-Service/SaaS
MBT Bank outsources core banking tech to Jack Henry
MBT Bank has signed for Jack Henry’s Silverlake (core banking) and Banno (online and mobile channels).
Meridian Credit Union rushes to BlueRush’s IndiVideo
Meridian will use Toronto-based company’s digital marketing solution.
White paper: Cloud-based credit origination solutions are not all the same
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Oracle buys US firm DataScience
Adds platform to its cloud for machine learning boost.
CardFlight and Paya team for EMV-ready mPOS solutions
Enabling Paya to offer CardFlight’s SwipeSimple payment acceptance solutions to its merchants.
Seven banks in seven months select Jack Henry’s Core Director platform
Windows-based platform is designed for community banks in US.
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.
Lanco FCU live with new core banking system, Symitar’s Episys
New tech is provided on a hosted basis by Member Driven Technologies (MDT).
Softtek and Mambu unveil banking Platform-as-a-Service
SaaS-y engine provider partners with Mexican system integrator.
Glossary: what’s what in fintech
What’s what in fintech? Here is a glossary of the most commonly used terms.
California Coast Credit Union opts for PSCU’s paytech
California Coast Credit Union abandons CO-OP Financial Services for PSCU.
Unified monitoring: how banks can plan for success, not just prepare against failures
How to stay competitive among other brick-and-mortar operations.
Member Driven Technologies adds four US credit unions
They all opt for Symitar Episys core banking platform.
Cloud market soared to $180bn in revenue in 2017 – study
A 24% year-over-year increase, according to new research by Synergy Research Group.
AWS and Microsoft Azure lead $35bn public cloud market
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) continue to grow.
Oracle cloud revenue bursts 44%
Oracle reported total cloud revenues up 44% to $1.5 billion for Q2 of its fiscal 2018.
Case study: Towergate Insurance – achieving “good enough” IT in the cloud
If you’ve worked in information technology long enough, you’ve fallen prey to the urge to pursue technology on the cutting edge or even the bleeding edge.
ATB Financial live on Murex treasury and capital markets tech
Canada’s ATB Financial has gone live with a new treasury and capital markets (TCM) solution, MX.3, supplied by Murex. The solution is delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) basis.
Oracle expands on-premise public cloud offering – sounds weird right?
Oracle has continued its journey into the cloud, expanding an interesting proposition to target the data sensitive and paranoid.
Fintech funding round-up: 30 June 2017
A handy round-up of who’s investing in what in the fintech space. Featuring Revolut, Tango Card and ClauseMatch.
Bank of America signs for Oracle ERP
Bank of America is rolling out Oracle’s cloud-based ERP system and financial applications for its international general ledger and broker-dealer systems.
Avaloq Community Conference 2017: embracing blockchain and Bitcoin innovation
Swiss core banking software vendor Avaloq is prepared to tap into the potential of blockchain and Bitcoin over the next 12 months as it seeks to experiment and innovate more in these areas.
Oracle taps into AI buzz to calm security fears
Oracle has announced a number of updates to its security portfolio focusing on leveraging the buzz surrounding machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and contextual awareness technologies.
People on the Move: A.J. Koehn, Urban FT
A.J. Koehn has joined Urban FT Inc., a digital payments platform provider and 2017 Pay Awards winner for Startup of the Year, as its new senior vice president of compliance and program management.
SAP launches Blockchain-as-a-Service in the cloud
SAP has launched a blockchain platform – “ready-to-use blockchain technology” – in the SAP cloud.
ClauseMatch right match for Barclays compliance
Barclays has chosen smart document management provider ClauseMatch for handling policies and standards in one place with a new online editor. London-based ClauseMatch, a 2014 graduate of the inaugural Barclays accelerator programme, will provide its editor to the bank. This tool turns a “fragmented workflow” of Word documents, PDFs and e-mails and replaces them with […]
Oracle earnings look promising, but why the IaaS obsession?
Oracle has had another positive quarter as it navigates the complicated waters of business transformation, but it’s still a long way from kicking Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Top fintech stories this week – 17 March 2017
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Bank Yahav live with TCS Bancs core banking platform: “the world’s most complex IT project”
Israel-based Bank Yahav has gone live with a new core banking platform, Bancs, supplied by TCS Financial Solutions. The “pure Java-based” solution is provided on a hosted basis.
Fintech acquisition round-up: 9 March 2017
Who’s buying who? Featuring Broadridge, Message Automation, Numerix and TFG Financial Systems.
Infographics: the fintech landscape
It’s infographics time! A great compilation of fintech companies, showing how we’ve gone from graph paper to personal data algorithms – and everything in between.
Dysrupt Labs launches world’s first SaaS collective forecasting platform
Dysrupt Labs has launched Percypt, the “first” Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) collective forecasting platform. The firm says Percypt is designed to give organisations insight on questions; and by tapping into the combined insight of its teams and networks, it says collective forecasts are 30-80% more accurate. Dysrupt Labs CEO Karl Mattingly says surveys, polls and traditional management […]
TAS and targit team up
Italy’s TAS Group and targit GmbH Austria have signed a deal to collaborate on bringing a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model for liquidity risk management and reporting within reach of tier two and three banks throughout Central and Eastern Europe, including Austria and Germany.
New SaaS tech delivery – Form3 Financial Cloud – launched for UK banks and FIs
Start-up Form3 Financial Cloud will offer payment and core banking solutions through a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) delivery model. These are the Dovetail payments system and a new core banking system recently launched by Thought Machine.
Are cloud-based managed services set to take off in 2016?
Over the last few years, technology infrastructures have become increasingly complex and expensive to manage. At the same time, IT budgets have been cut, leading to companies finding it hard to provide and maintain IT infrastructures. Dana Brants, head of services at Swift, looks at what companies can do under the circumstances. Due to costs, […]
