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BNY Mellon, Citi and Visa join $35m round in Volante

Volante Technologies has raised $35 million in growth equity financing led by Wavecrest Growth Partners with participation from BNY Mellon, Citi Ventures, PostePay and Visa.

03 August 2020

Company announcement/people

Citi makes changes to TTS management team

Citi has announced the appointment of Stephen Randall as the TTS Global Head of Liquidity Management Services

31 July 2020

News/markets

Citi HK uses bot technology to give clients real-time trade status reports

Citi is using bot technology in Hong Kong to offer its Securities Services clients real-time processing for matching and settlement, giving them the ability to view their trade status consistently throughout the day and to be able to activate stock borrowing if needed.

24 July 2020

Company announcement/wholesale

Citi launches supplier finance mobile app in Latin America

Citi launched a new mobile app in Latin America to facilitate suppliers enrolled in Citi Supplier Finance domestic programs access to working capital.

23 July 2020

News/markets

Big banks invest in Capital Markets Gateway

A host of Wall Street heavyweights, including Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, have joined a $25 million funding round for Capital Markets Gateway (CMG), a fintech startup that facilitates equity capital market transactions.

25 June 2020

News/cloud

Citi veteran Yolande Piazza joins Google Cloud

Former Citi FinTech CEO Yolande Piazza has been hired by Google Cloud to lead the company’s North American financial services sales and customer engineering teams

24 June 2020

News/devops

Citi and Deutsche Bank open source data projects to Finos

Citi and Deutsche Bank have offered up a new round of open source contributions to nonprofit Finos (Fintech Open Source Foundation).

18 June 2020

Company announcement/startups

Citi joins Restarting Together post-Covid innovation programme

Airbus BizLab, BASF, Boston Consulting Group, CEMEX, Citi, Endeavor, IDB Lab, IE, IESE Business School, Microsoft for Startups, South Summit and Telefonica announced today the launch of Restarting Together, a global challenge that seeks to boost innovative projects after the impact of COVID-19.

10 June 2020

Company announcement/retail

Citi launches online tool to help workers improve their skills

Today Citi launches WorthiSM, a free, online tool that provides market insights and resources for workers to improve their skills in today’s evolving job market.

28 May 2020

News/crypto

Citi's Tony McLaughlin on CBDCs, Libra and bitcoin

Tony McLaughlin of emerging payments and business development at Citi tells Finextra TV of his soft spot for bitcoin as an alternative investment, but points out the inefficiencies that still afflict the cryptocurrency.

19 May 2020

Finextra TV/crypto

The Future of Money Post-Pandemic with Citibank

Tony McLaughlin, Emerging Payments and Business Development, Citi, questions whether the popular opinion that the pandemic will encourage the acceleration of both Digital Transformation and the adoption of Digital Currencies. He talks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV about the gap between 'Bitcoin Ideology' and actual adoption, how China and Sweden are taking a closer look at committing to a central bank digital currency, what ESG concerns other cryptocurrencies might spark and the impact Covid-19 will have on our relationship with sharing data.

15 May 2020

News/payments

Will SCA delays stall Request to Pay’s momentum?

Request to Pay (R2P) services originally scheduled to launch later this year have been expected to play a major part in transforming the UK and EU’s payments ecosystem.

14 May 2020