05/11/2017
RBC's new collaboration with OneEleven provides Canada's top technology startups with resources to manage and grow their businesses
This new collaboration will help OneEleven improve its ability to support the country's top startups.
Innovation & Startups
05/11/2017
Mizuho Teams Up with World Innovation Lab to Roll Out New Fintech Unit
The collaboration will create new business services utilizing fintech innovations and IoT developments.
05/10/2017
500 Startups closes $15M fund to back founders in the Middle East and North Africa
Ideally this would mean increasing the size of the team to between seven and nine people to support the fund’s efforts.
05/10/2017
Synpulse, additiv ink robo-advice focused partnership
It will define and deliver an offering that will place them among the disruptors and first movers.
05/10/2017
KPMG Buys Fintech Innovation Firm
Fintech companies and solutions are reviewed and undergo a curation process in order to qualify to appear on KPMG's innovative Matchi platform.
05/10/2017
J.P. Morgan Launches Virtual Branch in China
The launch follows the successful introduction of J.P. Morgan’s Virtual Branch in India, Indonesia and Thailand.
05/10/2017
UK tech investors face loss of significant funding after Brexit
It was business as usual for UK fund managers and UK-based funds.
05/10/2017
South Africa's Mercantile Bank uses TCS' solution
The city-headquartered company used TCS Bancs Digital platform for the project.
05/10/2017
UAE SCF platform gets investment from ex-Citi CEO
The platform enables suppliers to see the status of their invoices through the mobile app/cloud system.
05/10/2017
BNY Mellon advances artificial intelligence tech across operations
BNY Mellon said 20 bots have been placed in production since the start of the year.
05/10/2017
The second wave of challenger banks
ClearBank’s core banking technology and API has been developed in accordance with ISO 20022 and is purpose-built for simple access through a single connection to multiple payment options.
05/10/2017
BNP Paribas to become startup bank for Parisian version of Silicon Valley
Saeed Amidi founder and CEO of Plug and Play, says of Station F: “I believe it will become the hot spot of all startups and all corporate innovation".
05/10/2017
Now the hard part for bank robos: Getting customers to use them
We want to make it easy to do business with us, and offer them the advice and technology that make them want to come on to our platforms.
05/09/2017
Switzerland’s Hypothekarbank Lenzburg goes open banking
The open platform will be made available to Swiss Fintech Innovations.
05/09/2017
Why veteran of a legacy vendor joined core banking startup crowd
The Irish fintech startup Leveris is also building a cloud-based system.
05/08/2017
Database provider MariaDB secures €25 million from European Investment Bank
The worldwide database market is tipped to reach $50 billion this year, according to IDC.
05/05/2017
Sydney robo-advisor founded by ex-UBS portfolio manager raises $3 million in series B
Alium Capital partner Rajeev Gupta said that there’s been a “mammoth global shift” to index and ETF funds in recent years
05/05/2017
Barclays sign eight FinTech start-ups and spinoff ‘intrapreneur’
Barclays, Britain's second biggest bank, has given formal engagements to eight of the 11 financial technology (FinTech) start-up companies that pitched yesterday at its Rise event in London, U.K., after graduating from their 13-week business Accelera
05/05/2017
Nordea ships staff to Stockholm Fintech Hub
Nordea is keen to develop relationships with startups and third party developers as part of a wide-ranging digital transformation programme.
05/05/2017
Silicon Valley Bank sets sights on Canada
Silicon Valley Bank, based in Santa Clara, Calif., filed an application Thursday with Canada’s banking regulator for a license to open a lending branch in Toronto.