07/18/2022
US fintech Pico receives $200m investment from Golden Gate Capital
The new funds will be used to pursue M&A opportunities and improve the firm’s infrastructure and data offerings, as well as expand its market coverage.
Innovation & Startups
07/15/2022
Leonteq Launches first products with VP Bank under new innovative issuance model
This innovative business offering provides fast time-to-market based on a simplified cooperation design triggering limited investment costs.
07/15/2022
Digital Banking Solutions Provider Apiture Secures $29 Million Investment
The investment brings Apiture’s total capital raised to $69 million.
07/15/2022
Standard Chartered Bank's SWOOSH Platform Wins at the Technology Excellence Awards 2021
Text extraction, semantic understanding and contextualisation of actions to be performed from emails
07/15/2022
CIBC Innovation Banking injects £40 million growth financing to UK fintech Smart
The company has since expanded to work with financial institutions and governments across the world, including through its core technology platform Keystone.
07/15/2022
German insurtech ELEMENT secures € 21.4 million in latest round
The current investment round underlines the continuous growth of the Berlin-based InsurTech.
07/14/2022
Former Flutterwave exec launches African remittance startup in UK
Sendsprint's launch coincides with a $2 million raise by FCA-licenced startup Zazuu, which provides a price comparison site for members of the African diaspora to sift through the best available deals.
07/14/2022
Finuevo Suite: The new Banking experience
The Finuevo Suite platform delivers a unique banking experience to banks and financial institutions that want to differentiate and competitively meet and exceed their customer expectations whilst offering an outstanding level of service to their banking p
07/14/2022
Pontera and Hilltop Wealth Advisors Announce Partnership to Improve Client Retirement Outcomes
RIA firm Hilltop Wealth Advisors partners with Pontera to securely manage and trade clients’ held away accounts, including 401(k)s, 403(b)s, and more
07/14/2022
BIS and Bank Indonesia shortlist 21 teams for CBDC G20 TechSprint challenge
The shortlisted teams range from large global corporations to more specialised fintechs.
07/13/2022
Recognise Bank taps TruNarrative for digital customer onboarding solution
The bank will deploy the RiskNarrative platform as it looks to speed up the onboarding of new customers by digitising a number of anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) processes via a single API.
07/13/2022
Crédit Agricole builds its own fintechs
The group is now building its own fintechs to complement and disrupt itself, and the sector, at a rapidly increasing rate.
07/13/2022
Illuminate Financial Secures Strategic Investment from Citi
Citi joins existing investors Jefferies, J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Börse Group and S&P Global as a limited partner in Illuminate Financial's venture capital strategy.
07/13/2022
HPD Lendscape announces its change in name to Lendscape
Lendscape supports a range of working capital and asset finance solutions
07/12/2022
BCG X: BCG’s New Tech-Build and Design Business Unit Is Home to the World's Best Tech Talent
The new business unit brings together cutting-edge AI, visionary business ventures, and unique software and products in the most strategic industry applications for clients.
07/12/2022
Low code fintech platform Quiltt raises $4 million
As the fintech stack continues to grow in complexity, delivering compelling fintech-enabled experiences requires too much repetitive and costly data engineering work.
07/12/2022
Qori launches multi-channel pay by bank and pay by crypto tech
Qori will initially focus on France, Spain and the UK, promising a fully digital, multi-channel and cheaper alternative to card payments.
07/11/2022
Europe to become deep tech capital of the world as part of new innovation agenda plans
Together, we will make Europe the global powerhouse for deep-tech innovations and startups.
07/11/2022
Linkbancorp taps Jack Henry for digital banking and lending upgrade
The company will also look to utilise Jack Henry’s existing industry partnerships, with Samuel adding the firm can now quickly adopt technologies from specialised fintechs “that would otherwise have taken us 6-12 months to implement”.
07/11/2022
IQ-EQ enhances MaxComply
Expanded range of verification functions, including facial biometrics, global address checking and ID validation