Managers of Wealth Fintech

Alliance Data rebrands as Bread Financial

The company’s prior market-facing brands are now unified under the singular, cohesive Bread Financial brand.

Open Banking: Apple makes first major UK fintech acquisition with Credit Kudos purchase

A big validation for UK fintech as the world’s most valuable company snaps up one of its newest startups.

State Street, Charles River® Development and Advisor360° Announce Strategic Partnership to Deliver an Integrated Technology Solution

The ability for mutual clients to leverage the capabilities of both firms helps create an innovative and differentiated wealth management solution for the industry.

SME back office automation platform Finally raises $95 million

The round was led by PeakSpan Capital with participation from Active Capital, 500 FinTech, and GTMfund.

Egypt state banks setting up $85mln fintech innovation fund

Legislative and regulatory changes in Egypt over the last two years have paved the way for a surge in fintech investments and a change in the way the country's largely unbanked citizens do business

Fidelity Investments® Rolls Out New Features on Bond Trading Platform

Bond Beacon helps address this by using real-time data and analytics to trade against live markets, providing a robust view into fixed income markets and substantially cutting the time needed for transactions.

Egypt's biggest national banks lead $85m investment in new FinTech fund

‘Nclude’ by Global Ventures aims to boost growth in sector and drive financial inclusion

Finastra to Build Model Digital Bank for Union of Arab Banks

The model digital bank will also be designed to enable the fulfilment of several of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Climate tech startup Lune raises $4 million

Lune partners directly with carbon project developers across the world to curate a diverse list of high-impact and innovative projects.

Dubai’s Shuaa Capital acquires controlling stake in fintech Souqalmal

This programme is currently offered by MAF, Careem, and Emirates Catering to their employees.

Mastercard partners HSBC

As a result, 62% of small businesses say they’ve experienced either an increase in late payments or had payments frozen completely.

IFC invests $5mln in Egypt fund to support fintech startups

The Cairo-based venture capital invests in fintech and fintech-enabled startups

Standard Bank employs AWS technology to boost Shari’ah Banking services

The bank introduced the Shari’ah Banking Call Centre on 9 March 2022, that seeks to resolve customers’ queries remotely and efficiently while maintaining all the requirements of Shari’ah Banking.

10 ways to rethink plastic through technology

Despite increasing awareness around the challenge of plastic pollution, we are continuing to make the situation worse.

Financial dashboard startup lands $1mn

In an announcement this week (March 15), the startup said it is “currently engaged” with a number of banks and insurers across the financial services industry, ahead of its “imminent” launch to market.

Ex-HSBC exec takes on global data governance headache

The software is installed onto an organisation’s network allowing the data to remain where it was, and begins work in minutes.

Irish fintechs go on display in Dubai

Enterprise Ireland is proactive in supporting its Fintech sector to thrive and be competitive globally.

Citi, Discount Bank, announce Israel’s Most Promising Fintech Startups for 2022

Voted on by Israel’s leading VC’s and financial institutions, the eight winners were awarded an NFT

‘Data driven Guernsey week’ returns to the Digital Greenhouse

This year the events will be held in blended formats, with options to attend in person or virtually, making the best use of tech to keep our community connected.

Northern Ireland bids to cement status as fintech hub

The event will also hear from Innovate Finance, the independent industry body for fintech in the UK.

Innovation & Startups