09/11/2019
Octopus completes Seccl acquisition following FCA approval
The deal was agreed in principle in August for £10 million
FinTech
09/11/2019
Zedra Enters The Digital Assets Market
ZEDRA has also partnered with digital custodians Vo1t, trading and settlement specialists BCB
09/10/2019
Edinburgh fintech hails first-half progress
Adjusted underlying earnings of £4.6 million, down from £4.9m, were in line with expectations, the firm noted, following substantial planned investment in its product development during the period.
09/10/2019
Touchstone selects Sequrest
Sequrest facilitates its services delivery through its newly-developed Paratus Cyber Management System, which provides Cyber Security as a Service (CSaaS) “on demand” to clients, by means of a simple online dashboard.
09/09/2019
Dutch tech firm CM.com considers IPO in Amsterdam
The company has also started running ticket services and won the contract to organise sales for next year’s Zandvoort Grand Prix, the first to be held in the Netherlands in 35 years.
09/09/2019
Brewin Dolphin launches ‘MyBrewin’
The app has all the core features of the MyBrewin portal
09/09/2019
Investment in digital transformation is a top priority for asset management says new survey
Almost a quarter of respondents stated that fund administrators and custodians, are not currently keeping pace with the changing requirements of asset managers
09/06/2019
Turning Words into Actions: PWC Luxembourg Embraces Crypto Payments
Despite this technological breakthrough, bad buzz and structural challenges have added to its growing pains by acting as impediments to its mass adoption.
09/05/2019
Rowan Dartington goes live with Iress’ order management system
Iress’ software is expected to provide integration with the wealthtech’s in-house portfolio management system.
09/04/2019
Robo-advice preferred by 4 per cent of UK mass affluent investors, up from 1.3 per cent, says GlobalData
Robo-advisors are evidently holding on to consumers more than ever before.”
09/04/2019
B-North selects Mambu for core banking
This new platform will allow B-North to process loans at speed and deliver a highly efficient, “minimum hassle” service to its SME customers.
09/04/2019
Monese and Raisin launch new service
With over 70% of incoming funds being from salary payments, Monese is a primary account for the majority of its customers
09/04/2019
Dubai-backed fintech company Numbrs reaches $1bn valuation
The firm plans to use the latest fund-raising to support expansion plans beyond Germany, particularly into the UK.
09/04/2019
Robo-adviser to enter mortgage market
OpenMoney will initially target first-time buyers covering the duration of the house buying process
09/03/2019
Money and private currencies: reflections on Libra
Speech by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the ESCB Legal Conference, Frankfurt am Main
09/03/2019
Avaloq announces record half-year revenues
The half-year period saw Avaloq successfully complete its largest transformation project to date and one of the biggest financial services upgrade programmes globally.
09/02/2019
Aberdeen Standard Investments standardises global virtual desktops
The IGEL Operating System simplifies deployment, security and maintenance whilst improving desktop performance
09/02/2019
Two leading Fintech companies join forces
The partnership comes amid a fundamental change in the way banking and wealth management clients behave and how financial services will do business in the future.
09/01/2019
wealth management firm goes live with Iress
The software supports multi-proposition, multi-asset, central dealing team, providing close integration with the in-house portfolio management system as well as the London dealing desk, Bristol head office and branches across the
09/01/2019
Private banks warn over Facebook holiday scams
The perpetrator found enough details of the family’s holiday to impersonate them and authorise the transfer — with the weak link being a social media profile saying, “headed to Paris with the family! See ya in two weeks!”