Philip Hammond joins OakNorth advisory board
Philip Hammond, the former UK chancellor and foreign secretary, has joined SoftBank-backed OakNorth as the fintech looks to accelerate its overseas expansion,…
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SBI Holdings invests $20m in core banking API firm OpenLegacy
Japanese investment firm SBI Holdings has announced a $20 million investment in core banking integration firm OpenLegacy. SBI wants to introduce OpenLegacy…
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 31 January 2020
The FinTech Futures weekly round-up of the industry’s top stories and happenings from across the globe. This week we cover: Viva Wallet buys Greece’s…
What Brexit Day means for the future of fintech
The UK officially left the European Union on 31 January and will be entering an implementation period, which is due to last…
Enterprise customers want to work with startups. Here’s how to get in the door.
Guest Post: The following post is a sponsored guest post by Perry Light, the Market Connect Lead, North America of Oracle for…
IBM makes major changes to executive leadership
IBM has announced that its first female CEO Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, 62, is retiring at the end of 2020 after nearly 40…
The Challenges of Innovation
Innovation. It’s a good idea, right? In fact, it’s a great idea. If it delivers value. Hands up who’s seen those pet…
Klarna lands $200m from CBA for Australia launch
Klarna, the Swedish ‘buy now, pay later’ fintech unicorn, has landed a US$200 million investment from the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)…
JP Morgan plans to cut hundreds of jobs across consumer division
JP Morgan Chase is planning to cut hundreds of jobs across its consumer division, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people briefed on…
US paytech BandPay set to help musicians get paid
Bandpay, a new paytech platform which guarantees musicians get paid, is launching in mid-March on the App Store and Google Play for…
How SalaryFits is connecting banks with the unbanked
SalaryFits, the fintech offering the gig economy advances on their salary through their employers, tells FinTech Futures how it’s helping banks tap…
Griffin raises £3m to take aim at banks’ legacy tech
Griffin, the London-based challenger and soon-to-be bank, has raised £3 million in a seed round led by Europe’s seed fund Seedcamp and…
Cybertonica raises £2 million Series A
Cybertonica, a platform using Machine Learning and AI for delivering authentication to the payments and fintech sector, has raised £2 million in…
Industry undecided on UK’s fintech funding success
The industry is undecided over roughly $1 billion dollars in funding raised by UK fintechs last year. Whilst one report released by Spanish…
EXCLUSIVE: Drugs, defecation, and graffiti at HMRC’s Manchester headquarters
UK government staff working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have been warned about repeated acts of vandalism at its Manchester…
US neobank Rellevate picks Technisys for core tech
Rellevate, a US challenger banking service founded by a Western Union alum, has selected Technisys to provide its cloud-based core digital banking…
Five Foundations for Building a Culture of Innovation
If you are trying to transform an organisation which is sluggish and risk averse into one which is innovative and entrepreneurial then…
EXCLUSIVE: TCS to power Israeli digital bank with debut platform offering
Indian technology firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is set to provide a front-to-back banking platform for the first Israeli bank to launch…
Digital Transformation is More about Transformation than Digital
Premise: It seems like there can’t be a day that goes by when I don’t hear the word transformation being tossed around,…
Crédit Agricole acquires majority stake in aggregation fintech Linxo
French cooperative Crédit Agricole has acquired a majority stake in payment aggregation and initiation fintech Linxo. Crédit Agricole has nabbed a 85%…