White paper: Three key trends driving financial services IT transformation
How financial institutions can become more customer-centric, leverage hybrid IT infrastructure, and avoid vendor lock-in.
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Overcoming challenges on the road to open banking success
FinTech Futures speaks to Rajashekara V. Maiya at Infosys Finacle about open banking.
How to prevent your cloud finances from sinking you during economic turbulence
Practical steps to establish and maintain a successful cloud financial management (CFM) strategy.
Introducing CRUX Digital Days – getting the crux of the tech matter
What’s shaping the financial services technology industry of today and what awaits it tomorrow?
ChannelMeter raises $4m for content creator banking service
The start-up is launching its new service ‘Creator Cash’ this month.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 03 July 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
US challenger Point lands $10.5m for debit-credit hybrid
Rewards rest on a point-based system.
Living in a passive voice world
My frustration with organisations big and small “living in the passive voice” is not new.
Webinar: Stop wasting money in the cloud!
How Robert Half International (RHI) reduced cloud expenses and applied cost optimisation best practices across the enterprise.
Capitolis lands former Microsoft Azure director as CPO
Rahul Auradkar spent more than 12 years at Microsoft.
ScaleFactor winds down after COVID-19 cripples sales
The start-up raised $100 million between July 2018 and August 2019.
Why every company will soon be a fintech company
Why companies that have nothing to do with finance will get into financial services.
Uber presses pause on financial services play
Uber Money head Peter Hazlehurst is leaving the ride-hailing giant.
FinTech Futures and Jobbio team up to launch FinTech Futures Jobs
Launching an exciting new jobs board for the global fintech community.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 26 June 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Managing fintech security remotely: overcoming challenges with WFH setups
Let’s take a look at what IT staff can do during this time of crisis.
New York regulator plans to ease cryptocurrency rules
DFS announces batch of changes amid MOU with New York university.
White paper: The biggest threat to the financial services industry is BigTech
A guide to navigating technology challenges while avoiding common, costly pitfalls.
Storytelling for introverts
For the extroverts of all hues, ethnicities, sexualities, identities and faiths, check on your introverted friends.
Mastercard set to acquire Finicity for $825m
This follows a similar acquisition of Plaid by rival Visa in January.
Credit Sesame’s banking service uses i2c payments platform
More than 200,000 users have opened a Sesame Cash account.
P2P payments app Chipper Cash lands $13.8m
The San Francisco-based start-up operates across seven African countries.
PayPal and Venmo to “allow buys and sells of crypto directly”
It is understood the services will offer “a built-in wallet functionality” so you can store crypto.
Data privacy versus data security: why is it so hard to have both?
Blockchain and other DLT secure data by making it immutable.
Cloud banking provider nCino files for IPO in US
nCino plans to raise $100 million in its IPO.
MayStreet secures $21m Series A investment
The investment will be used to accelerate MayStreet’s product development and expansion.
Be Money looks to tap America’s 11m LGBT+ community
The start-up is planning to set up shop in Los Angeles.
Designing the digital services that US SMBs deserve
They’re also intrinsically linked to the powerful notions of freedom and the American Dream.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 19 June 2020
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
COVID-19: will fintechs crash, survive or get bought?
What can fintech firms do to ride out the storm?
Europe battles on with digital tax plans despite US walk out
Almost 140 countries are part of the talks to bring in a digital tax.
Santander gets US challenger bank Upgrade to unicorn status
The San Francisco-based challenger has landed a $40 million Series D.
Credit Sesame acquires Canadian challenger Stack for international expansion
The US loans company is absorbing all Stack employees.
Friends in low places
If you want something done in a bank you don’t need friends in high places. You need friends in low places.
Five steps that will change reconciliation forever
What does the future of reconciliation look like?
Fintech start-up Synapse cuts 50% of full-time staff
It also signalled its intention to move more of its workforce to Texas.
RBC-backed start-up Mydoh launches banking offering for kids
The app and smart card launched more than two weeks ago.
IBM returns to M&A market with cloud acquisition
The acquisition is IBM’s first since its $34bn buyout of Red Hat in 2018.
What does survival of the fittest mean for fintechs in a post-COVID-19 world?
COVID-19 has already led to a shift in mindset for many businesses.
Canadian and Taiwanese regulators sign fintech sandbox agreement
The regulators will build a “referral mechanism” between their fintech sandboxes.
