Managers of Wealth Fintech

Digital Payments’ Summer of Love

How this plays out as financial institutions (FIs) throttle up digital innovation amid waning COVID panic forms the substance of The Digital Payments in a Digital World Playbook for June.

Platform links loan borrowers to lenders

Kopalink has come at a time when Covid-19 has changed the way people interact and access services.

Digitization strategy oversees Equity’s growth in loans and transactions

By Waiving fees on mobile transactions charges the bank says it continues support the government initiatives of facilitating cashless transactions to help alleviate the impact of Covid-19 on its customers.

Facebook invests in Indonesia's Gojek in WhatsApp push

The company didn't specify how much it is investing and a spokesperson declined to share details.

Digital Channels to Drive Standard Chartered's Retail Growth

The bank has bulked up its digital solutions in recent years, expanding its real-time onboarding, remittance services, and investment platform.

Lloyds' online and mobile banking goes down

At around 2:30pm the bank tweeted that things were "back to normal" but customers in the replies did not agree.

Banking Sector urged to go digital to build resilience and sustainable growth post Covid-19

Speaking at the online event, Brett King, author of Bank 4.0, a New York-based mobile banking startup, said the behavioural changes that come with coronavirus further underpins the needs for digital transformation in banking sector.

Banks determined to lock in coronavirus technology changes

Pandemic is forcing progress in a security-conscious field — but can it be maintained?

Information technology in money and banking industry

Information Technology is influencing competition and the degree of contestability in banking is prospering very fast.

PayThink Tech firms have used payments to jump ahead of banks

Whatever the reason may be for falling behind, the bottom line is financial institutions continue to run the risk of losing ground to fintech players that are challenging the status quo.

UAE fintech Ziina rolls out mobile money transfer app

Ziina allows users in the country to send cash easily as sending an SMS

Asia Online Launches On-Demand Virtual Event Platform

The future of events is online - AOPG's platform will support a new era of online, on demand, and live physical event amplification.

UBA Upgrades Mobile App, Introduces Exciting New Features for Customers

Customers who subscribe to the lifestyle offering on the app will enjoy access to the free online medical doctor, a great response to the new norm created by Covid-19 pandemic.

How the UK pensions industry is paving the way for open data sharing ecosystems

Nick Caley, VP of UK and Ireland at ForgeRock, explores how the UK pensions industry is paving the way for open data sharing ecosystems

Remote tellers: A strategy for broadening banking options during social distancing

Some services customers want are not available through these channels, leaving a gap in provision which video teller machines can help to fill.

New accounts can be opened at BBVA Switzerland with a simple video call

Taking out loans and contracting the bank’s advisory and wealth management services are among the other services that customers can also access online.

Your Home Office Is a Hacker’s Paradise. Here’s Why.

Kids, anxiety, and distance from colleagues make investors ultra-vulnerable.

Is COVID-19 Being Used As A Scapegoat For Neobanks’ Recent Sluggish Growth?

The current priority is to flatten the curve and reduce the rate at which hundreds of thousands of people are dying

IBM helps to modernise Canadian finance with cloud platform

Utilising its IBM Payments Centre Canada platform, IBM’s PaaS (payments as a service) system will be deployed via a private cloud offering hosted on IBM’s public cloud.

E-Signatures - Who Needs Ink Anyway?

The Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision) (ETL) puts electronic signatures on an equal footing with “wet ink” signatures in the Cayman Islands.

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