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TransPecos Bank selects Oscilar AML risk platform for BaaS offering

TransPecos Banks, an innovative Texas-based community bank, has selected Oscilar’s innovative AI-Powered AML Risk Platform to transform its compliance and risk management capabilities. This strategic partnership will leverage the latest technology to capitalize on growth opportunities in TransPecos Banks’ fintech programs while ensuring robust regulatory compliance.

01 August 2024

Finextra TV/wholesale

Reimagining Your Core: How Banks Can Thrive Amidst Rapid Technological Change

Narendra Mistry, CPTO of Universal Banking at Finastra, emphasises that banks must adapt quickly to evolving technology and customer expectations. Success lies in implementing efficient core banking systems, that enable innovation at scale and at pace, while navigating AI and data with a focus on mindset and business services. Lean systems, like those of neo and digital-only banks, are good, but long-term growth requires a clear vision, a strong culture and breadth of capabilities. For established banks with pre-existing infrastructures, symbiosis – where next gen solutions are deployed alongside existing solutions – can offer a fast way to deliver outstanding experiences, stay ahead of competitors and, when appropriate, ease transitions.

24 July 2024

Finextra TV/wholesale

Adapting to change: How financial institutions can revolutionise core banking systems

Siobhan Byron, EVP of Universal Banking at Finastra, discusses how innovation is not just limited to the neo and startup banks, indeed established banks are combining the move-fast philosophies of the emerging players with their own considerable assets. The conversation highlights the need for financial institutions to have a clear vision and strategy, find the right pace and technology for transformation, avoid high-risk methods, outline the challenges of losing market share, talent, and the ability to meet future needs if institutions fail to stay current and innovative.

24 July 2024

News/retail

UniCredit to acquire Banking-as-a-Service venture Vodeno and Belgian digital bank Aion

Italy's UniCredit has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the entire share capital of European Banking-as-a-Service platform Vodeno and Belgian digital bank Aion.

24 July 2024

Company update/security

AmInvestment Bank taps Broadridge for securities finance solution

To transform and expand their prime brokerage business lines and as part of its broader efforts to add and enhance value for its clientele, AmInvestment Bank, a company in the Ambank Group and one of the largest banking groups in Malaysia, has deployed global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.‘s (NYSE: BR) Securities Finance and Collateral Management platform to enable their Securities Borrowing and Lending product offerings.

19 July 2024

Finextra TV/regulation

The Importance of ESG when Choosing a Technology Provider

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Kalliopi Chioti, Chief ESG Officer, Temenos and Christian Sarafidis, Chief Executive, EMEA Financial Services, Microsoft, dive deep into how choosing the right provider and right partner is crucial for ESG. With increasing pressure coming to the fore from regulators, organisations have no choice but to consider their reputations. This journey cannot be completed alone, so partners are of paramount importance, in addition to technologies such as cloud and AI to drive sustainability efforts.

17 July 2024

Company update/payments

HPS opens Australia office

HPS (CSE: HPS), one of the leading global providers of software and payment solutions, is pleased to announce the establishment of its new entity in Sydney, Australia.

15 July 2024

Company update/payments

OpenPayd announces real-time payments capability via Pix

Today, the global provider of embedded finance infrastructure, OpenPayd, announces its clients can now send and receive payments via Pix, the Brazilian real-time payment network.

12 July 2024

Company update/startups

Griffin certifies as B Corp, prioritises sustainability

Griffin, the UK’s leading bank for fintechs, is thrilled to announce that it is now a certified B Corp - the global community of companies committed to high standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. This milestone reinforces Griffin’s dedication to embedding sustainable and ethical business practices into its operations at all levels.

12 July 2024

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Core Banking Transformation: Enabling Future Growth at a Systemic Bank

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Mick Fennell, Business Line Director - Payments, Temenos and Serge Munten, Head of Transformation, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg discuss their digital transformation project and the obstacles the bank faced when modernising core banking and payments capabilities. Scoping out the project, it is explored how BIL decided to completely revisit their IT landscape to enable the bank to manage higher transaction volumes, keep up with changing regulations and drive future growth.

12 July 2024

Finextra TV/cloud

Considering Cloud? Here are the options for banks

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Tony Coleman, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Temenos and Keith Lynch, Head of Enterprise Business, EMEA, Red Hat dive deep into why choice remains a fundamental tenet for the banking industry and how cloud migration is no exception. A bank in 2024 has many options, whether it is moving to public cloud, where technology stacks are supported by hefty players such as AWS or Azure, for example, or working with SaaS providers. The conversation also shifts to expanding on the benefits of private cloud where cloud-like deployments are established. The advantages of hybrid cloud are also prevalent, where one technology stack can run across multiple footprints, allowing organisations to build an app once, but deploy it everywhere with open source technology.

11 July 2024

News/startups

Brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets raises €12m

Berlin-based brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets has raised €12 million in a funding round led by CommerzVentures.

11 July 2024

Finextra TV/retail

Fintech in Asia: How are Digital Experiences Evolving?

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Ramki Ramakrishnan, Managing Director, APAC, Temenos and Trinh Vinh Hien, CTO & CDO, PVcomBank provide an overview of how the APAC region is leading when it comes to efficient digital experiences and the innovations that have come to the fore since 2022. As more and more customers expect digital access to all services, scalable solutions are imperative for financial players in Asia, the Pacific and further afield. While the likes of Alipay and WeChat attempt to bridge the gap between the banked and unbanked, innovation must ensure it is fit for purpose for all.

10 July 2024

Finextra TV/payments

Why without technology, there would be no banks

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Maurya Murphy, Senior Product Director, Corporate Banking, Temenos and Benjamin Wey, Senior Advisor, Hamilton Reserve Bank chat through how technology can be used to streamline operations and grow and develop as a business. For the largest global bank headquartered in the Caribbean, technology is essential for resolving problems that all traditional banks face, such as lack of communication and lack of customer support. There is now an expectation from customers of a much closer link between banking and technology, and corporate clients are looking for more personalisation, more choice and more sustainability in their products.

08 July 2024

Finextra TV/ai

AI, the Mechanism for Anticipating Customer Needs

Join FinextraTV at the Temenos Community Forum 2024 as Arun Thallapelly, Global Head of BSG, Temenos and Tielman Walters, Chief Technology Officer, Barko survey how digital innovation is helping banks make key connections with customers. Considering the wealth, facets and magnitudes of data available to financial institutions, the discussion taps into how effectively leveraging this data could provide banks with a detailed picture of how a customer currently behaves and would behave in the future. Organisations now need to anticipate needs in a much more effective way and AI is the tool to utilise to achieve this. AI can help precisely understand what the next step of the user journey will be and in turn, products and usability can be enhanced.

05 July 2024

Company update/payments

Worldline extends Banking-as-a-Service partnership with BKN301

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global leader in payment services, continues its strategic partnership with BKN301, a Banking-as-a-Service fintech company that continues to grow in the digital payment services market.

04 July 2024

News/startups

BaaS startup Connect Money raises $8 million

Egyptian Banking-as-a-Service startup Connect Money has closed an $8 million seed funding round led by Disruptech Ventures and Algebra Ventures.

25 June 2024

News/startups

Chift raises seed funding to help SaaS companies build integrations

Chift, a Belgian startup that helps SaaS companies integrate with other financial applications and tools via APIs, has raised €2.3 million in seed funding.

25 June 2024

Company update/retail