03/31/2020
Coronavirus: Zoom becomes India's top Android app ahead of WhatsApp, TikTok
Zoom's remote conferencing software is rising in popularity as COVID-19 forces millions of people to stay indoors and work from home.
Innovation & Startups
03/31/2020
Digital Transformation Reshapes Banking Industry
Many businesses use the term “digital banking” in a loose manner, to make themselves stand out as cutting-edge institutions.
03/31/2020
How banks can use technology to improve operational resilience in uncertain times
For the new remote workforce, staff need to be equipped not only with the right hardware and software to enable collaborative working, they also need the right tools to grapple with customer challenges that have never been seen before.
03/31/2020
European B2B Wealthtech Startup Raises €2 Million
Financial institutions are accelerating their digital transformation of wealth management as a result of increased regulation, lower profitability and a challenging macro-economic climate, growing competition from new players and more demanding digital-na
03/31/2020
Digital banking service One picks Finxact core system
One is running on Finxact's platform, which offers open APIs and extensible components to help banks invent, curate, and launch products quickly and simply.
03/31/2020
Japanese Fintech Startup Raises Funds Despite Virus Chilling VCs
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03/30/2020
Open Banking: Tink Acquires Eurobits Technologies for €15.5 million
The open banking platform is also said to be used by more than 5,000 developers.
03/30/2020
Connectivity Between Corporate Treasury Systems and Bank Accounts
Two of the themes in our CEP Outlook for 2020 are both applicable here; one being ‘globalization’ and the other ‘resourcefulness’.
03/30/2020
Loss-making tech start-ups appeal for inclusion in loan schemes
MPs are understood to have written to Rishi Sunak voicing concerns over startups
03/30/2020
Open Banking Platform Tink Acquires Eurobits
“Tink is undoubtedly one of the most innovative companies within open banking,” said Eurobits CEO Arturo Gonzalez Mac Dowell.
03/30/2020
Withers KhattarWong advised Grab in the launch of Grab Ventures Ignite programme
The Withers KhattarWong team, led by Singapore-based Corporate partner Leong Chuo Ming, with the assistance of legal associate Chow Su Rin, assisted Grab in drafting the strategic collaboration agreement with a leading venture capital firm.
03/27/2020
Technology investments paying off for Shoals banks
The few employees who are working at bank branches are segregated as much as possible.
03/27/2020
Deloitte: 2030 and the future of banking
To be successful over the next decade, banks must embrace emerging technologies and digital transformation, according to Deloitte
03/26/2020
Dubai-based World Investments invests $258m in Australian Xinja Bank
World Investments already has significant equity holdings in banks across Europe and the Middle East
03/26/2020
Are digital advisers more immune to coronavirus?
Tips to keep your clients calm, engaged and informed during the outbreak
03/26/2020
Entreda offers free suite of work-form-home cybersecurity tools to support wealth managers during coronavirus crisis
The offer is part of Entreda’s commitment to support industry-wide coronavirus pandemic response efforts that involve transitioning to a work-from-home model.
03/26/2020
Iress opens Coronavirus support hub
Visitors can access a range of guidance and tools including information on how to continue to support clients while working remotely
03/25/2020
Singapore Robo-Advisor Winds Up Business
Smartly said that it considered introducing core platform improvements but strategic corporate considerations by parent company VinaCapital Group ultimately guided its decision to shut down.
03/25/2020
Bank of China Partners Refinitiv for AI-Based FX Trading App
The service is available for free through Refinitiv’s App Studio.
03/25/2020
Brex acquires three companies to build out its bank alternative for startups
While on first thought the COVID-19 pandemic may have slowed the acquisitions