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Boursorama picks IBM for hybrid cloud strategy

Boursorama has inked a five-year deal with IBM that will see the French online bank accelerate its hybrid cloud strategy.

23 April 2019

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Ohpen brings new shareholder on board

Private equity firm Amerbourgh has sold a 35% stake in Dutch core banking vendor Ohpen to NPM Capital.

18 April 2019

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One-third of retail banks planning to build digital brands

As many as a third of retail banks are looking to build a greenfield digital bank to ward off competition from upstart challengers and cherry-picking fintechs.

04 April 2019

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Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Nordics 2019, live from Copenhagen. This event has a focus on accelerating digital transformation, and will look at how the financial community in the region is harnessing technological change to deliver a digital customer experience.

28 March 2019

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SGX strengthens forex biz with BidFX investment

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has paid US$25 million for a 20% stake in BidFX, a specialised trading platform for global FX markets.

27 March 2019

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Standard Bank contracts with AWS for mass migration to the cloud

Standard Bank of South Africa is to adopt a cloud-first approach to its business, contracting with Amazon Web Services for a mass-migration of its IT architecture in a bid to drive its digital transformation strategy.

27 March 2019

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Banco Santander appoints former Googler Kazi to chief platform officer

Banco Santander has hired former Google exec Aiaz Kazi to fill a newly-created role as chief platform officer with responsibility for helping the bank to improve the way it delivers products and services to customers.

04 March 2019

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Barclaycard partners with SAP to simplify corporate payments

Barclaycard Commercial Payments is integrating its business-to-business product, Precisionpay, into SAP Ariba, a B2B marketplace.

15 February 2019

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Santander strikes $700m IBM deal to support biz transformation programme

IBM continues to rack up the financial services contract wins, scoring a huge $700 million global deal with Banco Santander, as well as agreements with ICBC Argentina and the card unit of Hyundai and Kia Motors.

13 February 2019

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ACI acquires tech assets for omnichannel payments offering

ACI Worldwide has bought technology assets from RevChip and TranSend to boost its UP Merchant Payments offering with new cloud-based, omni-channel in-store capabilities.

11 February 2019

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Morgan Stanley agrees to pay $900m for employee stock plan manager

Morgan Stanley has struck a $900 million cash deal to buy Solium Capital, a Canadian provider of cloud-enabled share plan administration services.

11 February 2019

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Top Image Systems board recommends Kofax takeover offer

The board of Top Image Systems is recommending a cash takeover offer from Kofax that will see shareholders receive a hefty premium over the content processing firm’s share price.

04 February 2019

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