UK Open Banking outfit Yapily completes first close of $51 million Series B round London-based Open Banking infrastructure supplier Yapily has completed the first close of a $51 million series B funding round, taking its total investment funding to date to $69 million. ‘Open banking’ service to be launched in S. Korea 앱 하나로 모든… Continue reading
Citi to develop AI-based trade finance compliance platform Citi is working with EY and SAS to on the development of an AI-based risk analytics scoring engine to provide more context and usable data to aid decision makers in reviewing trade transactions. I only trust my code to trade #finance #tradingview #ai #programatictrading #proprietarycapital this video… Continue reading
ECB payments experts sound the death knell for bitcoin Senior payments experts at the European Central Bank have dismissed bitcoin as a marketing scam that should not be legitimised by regulatory intervention. John McAfee Final Interview You Can’t Plan Your Success In one of John McAfee’s last interviews before being detained in Spain he shares… Continue reading
Yapily to acquire German rival finAPI Open banking connectivity firm Yapily is to acquire German open banking provider finAPI from credit bureau Schufa. Open APIs – The Future of Banking and Finance In the world of finance, Open API stands for a technological revolution. This SFTI video shows how it works and gives you a… Continue reading
AFME: Support banks in reducing investment in high carbon emitting sectors, don’t punish them In light of the European Commission’s call for comment on the Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) posited that the cornerstone of future policies should be transition in the real economy – non-financial sectors –… Continue reading
IFGS 2022: Taking the pulse of UK fintech Following welcome addresses from Catherine McGuinness, chair, Policy and Resources Committee, City of London Corporation, and Janine Hirt, CEO, Innovate Finance, the Innovate Finance Global Summit took off with a panel stacked with leading fintech voices. Main Stage – ESG FinTech Summit 2022 Watch live panels and… Continue reading
Sibos 2020: Rethinking compliance for friction-free payments A handful of topical areas were canvassed in the ‘Friction or fiction: compliance in a real-time world’ panel session on day one of Sibos 2020’s virtual event. While there has been significant innovation in domestic and global payments, financial institutions still play a critical role in the global… Continue reading
AFME: ‘Financial materiality is not sustainable finance’s end goal’ In conversation with Richard Peers for Finextra TV, Tonia Plakhotniuk, associate director, policy (sustainable finance & financial reporting) at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) traverses a number of predications we can expect to see around sustainable finance in 2021. Bloomberg Green: Making Finance… Continue reading
Tough Cloud rules will stifle bank uptake – Afme European capital market participants are calling on supervisory authorities to remove regulatory barriers to cloud adoption, arguing that broad-brush diktats on portability and multi-cloud strategies would present significant challenges to implementation by financial firms. AVCT American Virtual Cloud Technologies is PUMPING HARD! HOW HIGH will it… Continue reading
Yapily expands into Germany Open banking connectivity firm Yapily is expanding from the UK to Germany, where it has appointed former PayPal and finleap executive Chris Scheuermann as commercial lead. Made in Germany | Ethics in money transactions The financial and economic crisis has affected banks the world over,but some institutions,known as ‘ethical banks’ seem… Continue reading