Category : Fintech

Inside Wells Fargo’s global payments strategy

Wells Fargo, through its partnership with cross-border B2B payments provider TransferMate, is showing its global payments ambitions. According to Judd Holroyde, Head of Global Product Management for Wells Fargo, as e-commerce grows, digitally-driven...

BankMobile Grows Through Partnership Marketing

Challenger banks have to battle inertia to persuade people to switch banks. BankMobile uses partnerships with colleges and universities and T-Mobile to acquire new customers at scale.

Copper Chosen by SWARM as Preferred Digital Custodian

SWARM, an infrastructure provider for the issuance and trading of digital assets, has selected Copper as its preferred digital custodian. The integration of Copper’s solution will provide the institutional grade security fundamental to the mass marke...

CFC announces launch of new cyber platform

The insurer has announced that its new cyber insurance platform will launch on 1 June 2019.

Monzo Hits 2m Customer Milestone

Monzo has hit 2 million current account customers, signing up more than 35,000 new people every week. The impressive growth means that 3 in every 100 people in the UK now use the digital bank. Tom Blomfield, CEO at Monzo said: “A huge thanks to all...

UOB: Customer-Centricity Key to Engaging Digitally

In addition to technology, organizations must focus on customer needs to succeed in the innovation economy, the bank said.

TransferMate Announces Strategic Relationship with Wells Fargo

TransferMate, the cross-border B2B payments provider, has announced a strategic relationship with Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (“Wells Fargo”) to deliver Global Invoice Connect – the platform for U.S.-based international businesses looking for a simpler, m...

Smart City Traffic Technology Revenues More than Double in Next 4 Years, Reaching $4.4bn by 2023

New analysis by Juniper Research has found that smart city traffic technology solutions deployed to ease chronic congestion in cities will generate $4.4 billion in revenue in 2023, up from $2 billion in 2019. These solutions typically use sensors in...

Creighton University Among The First To Create A FinTech Degree

Creighton University has created a FinTech degree program, aiming to arm students with in-demand financial technology skills.

Introducing Bodeswell: Personal Financial Planning To Help You Live Your Best Life

Introducing Bodeswell: Personal Financial Planning To Help You Live Your Best Life. By combining personal financial data, economic models of the future, and an incredibly simple interface, BodesWell takes away the overwhelming aspects of financial pl...

Payday advance app Earnin expands personal finance toolkit

Payday advance app Earnin, which has been downloaded more than 11 million times according to Aptopia data, is on track to become a personal finance platform. It's building out its feature set through in-app bill management features that let users kno...

Green Dot Banking Services Are Available At 100,000 Outlets In The U.S.

Green Dot uses its banking license GoBank and provides banking services including refunds for tax preparers, Visa debit cards for Uber drivers, and savings accounts for investment firms including STASH and WealthFront.

WTW integrates insurtech vendor Tia Technology into pricing platform

Global insurance and reinsurance broker Willis Towers Watson (WTW) has partnered with insurtech vendor Tia Technology to enhance the offering of its Radar Live price delivery software. WTW intends to integrate the Tia rating engine into Radar Live, a...

“Chameleon Fraudsters” Slithering Through Companies House Loophole

Criminals perpetrate “chameleon fraud” via minor name or date of birth changes to register new directorships after they have been disqualified Abuse of the Companies House commercial register helps criminals to facilitate money laundering, crime and...

New Research Finds the UK’s Leading CFOs Plan to Spend Cautiously and Invest in Risk Management in 2019

Research from American Express and Institutional Investor has found that the UK’s CFOs are preparing for continued economic and political uncertainty by implementing risk management strategies for the year ahead. This year’s Global Business and Spend...