02/21/2019
Firm launches pay-as-you-go digital life insurance
DeadHappy says its applications “take just a few minutes, not hours or days, right through to completion.”
FinTech
02/21/2019
Iress eyes DFM growth to boost profits
In 2018 results posted today, Iress reported a group revenue of AUD$464.6m (£252.8m), up 8 per cent on 2017.
02/20/2019
FinDatEx platform launched
The joint structure will build on the successful informal collaboration within the European Working Group.
02/19/2019
Liechtenstein’s LGT goes live with Avaloq Banking Suite in Austria
The roll-out complements similar activation projects for LGT with Avaloq in Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong.
02/19/2019
Baillie Gifford selects corfinancial for global trade processing
Baillie Gifford recognizes the benefits that straight-through-processing and scalability can deliver in helping the firm serve its growing international client base.
02/19/2019
Head of CKV Bank named Belgium's Financial Services CEO of the Year
With over a third of banking customers preferring to do all their banking online and increasing demand for mobile apps, traditional banks are in danger of being left behind if they don't respond to change.
02/17/2019
FSB report: FinTech and market structure in financial services
The FSB defines FinTech as technology-enabled innovation in financial services that could result in new business models, applications, processes or products with an associated material effect on the provision of financial services.
02/15/2019
Belgium’s BNP Paribas Fortis unleashes bank account aggregator
The new approach is in line with our broader ambitions to improve the perception of our users and to offer them new, innovative services that facilitate their daily life, in the context of the new Payment Services Directive (PSD).”
02/15/2019
Block Asset Management Launches Blockchain Multi-Strategy Certificate
The open-ended tracker certificate is listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange (Wiener Borse) and will track the performance of their Blockchain & Crypto Fund.
02/15/2019
Swiss allege woman sweet talked her way to $2M bank scam
They said the woman, who was not identified, was working with an “internationally active group” that also used spam emails in the scheme.
02/15/2019
Top 5 Lessons Private Banks Can Learn From Fintech
There are also several white-label innovations which can be plugged in to private banking platforms
02/15/2019
Axia Suite 2.1 released with new functional features
Axia Suite has now been enriched with new functionalities for risk management & compliance.
02/14/2019
Online mortgage broker secures £7m funding
The system uses artificial intelligence and the concept of natural language understanding to reduce the time it takes to get a decision.
02/13/2019
AI-powered banking experiences
Banks are generally still poor at understanding their customers and their specific needs.
02/13/2019
Eastern European companies fear 'chaos' of no-deal Brexit
Trade with central and eastern Europe already affected and local GDP could shrink by 5%
02/12/2019
Bitcoin After Death: your digital inheritance: Part 1 - Bitcoin, blockchain and the cryptowallet
If someone dies or loses mental capacity without leaving instructions on how to access their virtual wallet, there is very little which can currently be done to retrieve their crypto assets.
02/12/2019
Hungary’s MKB restructures around digital
Can the combination of core banking system replacement and a pioneering fintech programme help re-privatized lender MKB Bank leapfrog its rivals in the Hungarian market in the race for technological supremacy?
02/11/2019
Dunstan Thomas launches Integro CX
Integro CX is designed for integration with existing Imago Illustrations and Administration modules and offers a suite of ready-to-use plug-ins to enable creation of highly functioning, feature and data-rich customer and administrator user experiences.
02/11/2019
Lloyds online banking down: Customers unable to access accounts as Lloyds suffers outage
The latest outage follows a string of high profile banking IT failures.
02/08/2019
Credit Suisse tests blockchain for processing fund trades
The investment fund industry relies heavily on transactions and settlements that are often complex and time consuming to process.