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New Revolut feature to block pickpockets and phone snatchers from accessing customer savings ahead of summer travel season 

Revolut, the global FinTech with over 8 million UK customers and 40 million globally, has introduced Wealth Protection, an extra layer of in-app identity verification, designed to prevent thieves from accessing customer savings within the Revolut app....

SumUp and Adyen partner to bring faster payouts to millions of SMEs globally

Adyen, the financial technology platform for larger businesses and SumUp, a global leader in financial technology for small merchants, have joined forces in a strategic partnership to offer a payment experience and accelerated settlements for millions of...

Bank Midwest’s OnePlace.bank goes live with Finastra to deliver tailored financial services to the healthcare sector 

Finastra has announced that Bank Midwest, an employee-owned bank with locations throughout Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, has launched OnePlace.bank, a digital bank powered by Finastra, focused exclusively on the financial needs of the healthcare...

Three UK continuously enhances customer protection against scams and nuisance communications 

Three UK has blocked more than 173 million spam texts, equivalent to 10,000 every hour of the day, in the last two years, as part of its efforts to protect its customers from rising online fraud.   The progress follows Three becoming the first UK...

Chime partners with FairPlay to embed fairness into its algorithmic decisions 

Chime will incorporate FairPlay’s Fairness-as-a-Service solutions to further its mission of helping everyday Americans unlock financial progress.  FairPlay, a Fairness-as-a-Service company, has announced a customer relationship with Chime, a financial ...

AI solution creates up to 90% time savings in software development

The journey of creating software is long, complex, fragmented and involves dozens of separate tools. Embedded Artificial Intelligence solutions can streamline this process. In pilot projects with Latin American tier 1 banks GFT’s AI...

NatWest launches the latest GenAI upgrade to the bank’s digital assistant  

NatWest is announcing the launch of Cora+, an upgrade to its digital assistant, Cora, developed in collaboration with IBM. NatWest will be one the first banks in the UK to deploy Generative AI through a digital assistant.  Cora supports customers in...

The importance of robust API security in insurance

In this article by Andre Kerstens, Principal Solution Architect, Noname Security, we take a look at how APIs in insurance handle vast amounts of sensitive data, making robust API security essential to protect against vulnerabilities, prevent data breaches...

Spotting ‘finfluencer’ red flags: Tips for identifying credible financial advice online 

The rise of the ‘finfluencer,’ a term combining the social media influencer and finance advisor, brings both an array of misinformation and too-good-to-be-true hacks whilst potentially making alternative and lesser-known information and methods on financial dec...

Helping businesses to sell anywhere

Square invented the first mobile card reader of its kind 15 years ago. Since then, it has developed into a business technology platform which serves all kinds of businesses. It allows businesses to sell anywhere and its operating system also allows companies...

Tech-driven unity: How US CMOs and CFOs can achieve strategic harmony 

We hear from an Americas-based perspective on how there is potential in a ‘formidable alliance’ between marketing and finance teams. In this article by Greg Dos Santos, CFO, Incubeta Americas, we explore the opportunities and tech and communication strategies as ...

Why the need for insurance firms to innovate cannot be overstated 

For firms operating in the insurance industry, transactional volumes and associated data is growing year-on-year. But managing this growth with spreadsheets presents an operational inefficiency as the industry continues to expand. This is worrying, with...