Banking

Study finds UK banks do not prioritise single customer view

A new study commissioned by FICO has revealed work still needs to be done for advanced personalisation in UK banks. The Forrester Consulting study, Unlocking Hyper-Personalization at Hyper-Scale, includes the results of a survey among 52 financial services...

Luxoft and Finastra to deliver turnkey managed services to banks in EMEA

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, has announced a new managed services partnership agreement with Luxoft, a DXC Technology company, to support Finastra’s Kondor customers in...

Bank lending to rise as Britain dodges recession

Banks are expected to increase their lending as the UK economy swerves the predicted recession and the housing market shows small signs of some revival, according to a panel of leading economists. Total loans in the UK are expected to rise 1.2% this year – a n...

Barclays and TransferMate provide international payments solution for UK businesses

TransferMate and Barclays have announced a new collaboration to help UK businesses reduce transaction costs and save time. Barclays clients operating in GBP will now be able to invoice their customers in their clients’ local currency in over 60 c...

Emirates Development Bank and Emirates Islamic to support SMEs in the UAE

Emirates Development Bank (EDB), a key financial engine for the economic development and industrial advancement of the nation, and Emirates Islamic, one of the leading Islamic financial institutions in the UAE, have announced the signing of a Memorandum of...

What can banks do to better protect themselves and their customers? 

Which? research has found that basic security flaws on some of the biggest banks’ websites and apps are putting consumers at increased risk of falling victim to fraud.  The research comes after 29,102 cases of remote banking fraud were reported to UK Fi...

Will women take over the financial markets?

For years, a woman operating in the financial markets was someone unique. However, recently there has been a dynamic change and women investors are increasing year by year. XTB Group tells us more. The last three years have been a time when financial...

Lanistar launches Google Pay in Brazil

Lanistar, a virtual payment card provider, has gone live with Google Pay operability to its virtual payment card in Brazil – one of the fastest-growing markets for its service. This is the first time Lanistar has been approved for use through Google’s pro...

Research reveals 10 in-demand finance jobs globally

A new study from CMC Markets analysed monthly Google searches using Ahrefs for jobs within the financial industry to see which career is the most in demand.  It also extracted the number of UK-based listings for each finance role from the job sit...

Boost has enabled Thai tourists to make payments in Malaysia

Boost, a leading regional full-spectrum FinTech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), a national retail payments network infrastructure, have announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now accept cross-border payments f...

Synechron completes integration of payments services and solutions provider Attra

Synechron, a leading global Digital Transformation consulting firm, has announced that it has now fully integrated its subsidiary, Attra, a payments technology services and solutions provider headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, into the larger Synechron...

Experts predict the biggest FinTech trends for 2023  

As we move into 2023, Intergiro has revealed the predicted trends for the new year. Nick Root, CEO of Intergiro, tells us more.  The financial technology sector is rapidly evolving with traditional methods of banking now being replaced with digital ...