10/06/2020
Stefan Kimmel, COO, Commercial Bank of Dubai on digitisation
Kimmel explains how COVID-19 has created digitisation opportunities in banking and why customer-centricity is essential to CBD’s operations
Innovation & Startups
10/06/2020
New IDB Chief of Operations calls for digital and technology change
These new technologies will allow government and businesses to generate new interactions, new types of data, new behaviours, new opportunities, and new services and products.
10/06/2020
Abu Dhabi’s ADQ plans to set up digital bank in the UAE
First Abu Dhabi Bank will have a 10% stake in the digital bank
10/06/2020
SocGen eases treasury management with new virtual accounts offer
The new virtual accounts offer from Societe Generale provides European corporate clients with an unlimited amount of virtual account numbers (vIBAN)
10/06/2020
SA prop-tech startup reOS launches publicly with heavyweight angel backing
South African prop-tech startup reOS, which has developed a management platform for rental professionals, has publicly launched with the backing of heavyweight local angels including Bill Paladino and Mark Forrester.
10/06/2020
Broadridge's AI-driven Corporate Bond Trading Platform LTX® Selects 7 Chord as Third-Party Pricing Provider
Platform offers greater insights into pre-trade liquidity
10/06/2020
Traditional banks need to quickly build a new digital core based on open and distributed technologies
In this environment, traditional bank services from deposits and loans to remittances are quickly evolving to include payment and investment services.
10/06/2020
Swiss Fintech Launches a New Version of Wealth Management Software
The new version of KeeSense is part of this vision of innovation and excellence.
10/06/2020
AppTech Announces Digital Banking and Payment Technology Partnership with NEC Payments
NECP will assist AppTech to complete the development of its text payment solution and, to do so, AppTech is licensing its patents to NECP enabling them to customize and provide best-in-class software that complements AppTech’s intellectual property.
10/06/2020
Rebuilding after ‘software ate the world’
The impact that these trends have had at both an economic level and from a financial market perspective are profound, with any shift to ‘rebuilding’ potentially having equally important implications.
10/05/2020
NEC acquires Switzerland’s Avaloq for $2.2bn
Each being a market leader in their own field, the combination of their shared vision, technological strengths, and global presence, will accelerate Avaloq’s long-term growth, global expansion and value creation strategy.
10/05/2020
Emerging technologies can change the African financial landscape
The ease and convenience of services backed with the emerging techs can dramatically improve the financial landscape in Africa.
10/05/2020
Broadridge and PPI AG Collaborate to Launch Payments-as-a-Service for the European Market
New generation of modern payments processing platforms and services combines the payment expertise of PPI AG with Broadridge's SaaS competence and operational excellence European banks to achieve a more powerful payments operation with new solution
10/05/2020
New virtual banks hit by glitches
A Mox spokesman said e-statement services have returned to normal the same night, and the company has strengthened the accuracy of the function in the background process.
10/05/2020
Connecting people with finance: new digital core in banks (By Vincent Chen)
In this environment, traditional bank services – from deposits and loans to remittances – are quickly evolving to include payment and investment services.
10/05/2020
The fintech sector made up 35% of Millionaire West African Startups in the last decade
Interestingly, despite fintech companies having the highest number of Millionaire West African Startups, online retail companies raised the most funds.
10/05/2020
Aberdeen seeks new steam age with innovation fund launch
The company said the mandate would invest outside the obvious candidates of tech.
10/05/2020
Four ways to automate your business and avoid lockdown frustration with Cloud
All tasks and costs need to yield a higher ROI than ever before.
10/05/2020
CREALOGIX and Solo.io partner to deliver a secure digital banking platform on the cloud
The partnership between CREALOGIX and Solo.io started during the extended validation phase as they worked together to add financial industry specific functionality to Gloo.
10/04/2020
15 Lagos Computer village firms in N1.2bn suspicious transactions
The FinCEN files say the transactions involved unidentified entities or individuals located in or banking in high risk jurisdictions.