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Finastra announces Hack to the Future 4 winners

Finastra has named the winners of its Hack to the Future 4 annual global hackathon.

28 April 2022

First AML launches in the UK

New Zealand-based anti-money laundering technology scaleup First AML has launched in the UK as it seeks to take advantage of a 'perfect storm' of events boosting interest in its platform.

26 April 2022

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Citi and State Street invest in FundGuard

Citi and State Street have joined a $40 million Series B funding round for AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform FundGuard.

21 April 2022

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Alkami to buy Segmint

Cloud-based digital banking technology vendor Alkami has agreed to buy financial data analytics and transaction cleansing provider Segmint for $135.5 million in cash.

29 March 2022

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Mizuho to shift operations to Google Cloud

Japan's Mizuho is to move into the banking-as-a-service market and re-engineer its operations through an alliance with Google Cloud.

23 March 2022

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ClearBank raises £175m for global expansion

UK clearing and embedded banking platform ClearBank is eying international expansion after raising £175 million in a financing round led by funds advised by Apax Digital.

21 March 2022

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JP Morgan to buy share plan management software provider

JP Morgan has agreed to buy Global Shares, an Irish cloud-based provider of share plan management software. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

15 March 2022

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NatWest taps AWS for data-driven services

NatWest Group is working with Amazon Web Services to bring together data from across its business in order to better anticipate the needs of customers.

11 March 2022

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PPRO buys Alpha Fintech for payments orchestration play

UK cross-border e-payments firm PPRO has boosted its presence in Asia Pacific through the acquisition of Alpha Fintech. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

08 March 2022

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CaixaBank makes quantum computing breakthrough

CaixaBank has joined forces with vendor D-Wave Systems to apply quantum computing in investment portfolio hedging calculation in the insurance sector.

07 March 2022

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NextGen Nordics: Circular economy startup Loopfront sees 300% increase in users

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on 27 April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of all the top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

04 March 2022

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Westpac appoints first BaaS chief

Westpac has appointed Damien MacRae as its first BaaS chief executive, overseeing the Australian lender's efforts to deepen its relationship with non-bank partners looking to embed banking services.

03 March 2022

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