07/08/2022
Insurance startup YuLife raises $120m
"We believe that wellbeing must be holistic, and we are committed to building a global financial services brand that can change the lives of millions of people across the world.”
Innovation & Startups
07/08/2022
Banking start-up set to launch plugin overdraft joins LSE
Fiinu says the new plugin will be a “gateway to better financial inclusion”.
07/07/2022
UK nabs top spot in open banking league table
The UK may be leading the pack when it comes open banking adoption, however, it still has a significant amount of work to do according to new research.
07/07/2022
FNB Community Bank enlists Teslar to automate lending processes
With Teslar, FNB Community Bank can better track exceptions and manage documents, increasing visibility into the pipeline and empowering lenders with easier access to relevant borrower and portfolio data.
07/07/2022
UAE’s YAP secures $41m to support continued expansion
The start-up’s app offers budgeting and spending analytics tools, card controls, easy money transfers and real-time notifications of purchases, as well as debit, pre-paid and virtual cards.
07/07/2022
Scotland’s largest festival of fintech to address 'economic and social challenges'
Plans have been unveiled for Scotland’s largest festival of financial technology to highlight how fintech can address “economic and social challenges”.
07/07/2022
London-based fintech startup Griffin banks €15 million for its self-service BaaS platform
London’s fintech space is continuing to bring hot innovations, exciting startups and fresh approaches to finance.
07/07/2022
WiseTech Global acquires Bolero.net
All parties to the transaction can securely monitor progress and access information about ownership, progress and payment throughout the supply chain life cycle.
07/06/2022
Allica Bank eyes profitability as it hits £1bn of lending
With a goal of hitting profitability on a monthly basis in 2022, Allica Bank is still growing its loan book exponentially.
07/06/2022
Chip and TrueLayer partner to improve savings experience
The “one-stop-shop” for growing money and building wealth will use the open banking platform to enhance its services.
07/06/2022
Ant Group open sources privacy software
Lei Wang, GM, privacy computing department, Ant, says: "It is costly for developers to start from scratch as there are many fundamental technologies involved in the privacy-preserving computing process."
07/06/2022
SystemLabs named as Qush Platinum Partner in Channel Islands
As the only business in the Channel Islands to be given this status we are thrilled to be able to offer local businesses a supported product which can help secure sensitive client data.
07/05/2022
Core Banking Gets Better on Cloud
It will interest them to know that core modernisation has evolved rapidly in recent years, pushed forward by cloud.
07/05/2022
New Gen Z finance app ‘Quirk’ launches
So far more than 40,000 people have taken Quirk’s financial personality test, with 86% saying it reflected them accurately.
07/05/2022
AIOps provider ScienceLogic expands to South Africa
In the last year, South African research house, BMI-T, valued the South African AIOps market at R914 million, with R374 million of annual spend in the financial, business and other services sector.
07/05/2022
The new Finuevo Core Banking platform is released!
The platform has been redesigned to deliver an optimum user experience, to improve user productivity and provide superior customer service.
07/05/2022
Why technology is essential for private equity managers
There has been exponential growth in the volume of data available to private equity firms.
07/04/2022
Saudi edtech startup AlGooru raises $1.8m in seed funding
Founded in 2021, the company is planning to utilize its funding by widening its offerings as well as expanding further in the Kingdom, MAGNiTT reported.
07/04/2022
Origo launches pensions dashboard connector
The Origo Dashboard Connector is billed as a means of allowing schemes to comply with both ‘find’ and ‘view’ functionality without going to the expense of upgrading their own technology operations.
07/04/2022
CoinShares acquires Napoleon Asset Management
The acquisition of Napoleon Asset Management allows CoinShares to offer AIFM compliant products and services, in addition to its market leading position as an issuer of crypto Exchange Traded Products (ETPs).