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News/startups
Santander's fintech venture capital fund has invested in German credit scoring and personal finance app Bonify. Details were not disclosed.
15 November 2018
News/payments
For the seventh year running, Money 20/20 put on an impressive show in Las Vegas and welcomed thousands of innovators from the fintech and banking industries to learn about disruption and forge business connections.
01 November 2018
Singapore-based DBS has begun testing a chatbot that allows customers to order and pay for meals at participating restaurants through Facebook Messenger.
29 October 2018
News/Credit referencing and support
Jumo, an African fintech startup that helps the underbanked get access to financial services such as loans and savings products, has set its sights on Asia after securing $52 million in a funding round led by Goldman Sachs.
18 September 2018
Mastercard and American Express are among the big names to join a $15 million Series A funding round for Divido, a consumer finance platform for retailers, lenders and payment partners.
Ant Financial has denied using Equifax's intellectual property or trade secrets in the development of its credit rating product, blasting a Wall Street Journal report on the subject.
13 September 2018
The UK's competition watchdog has referred Experian's proposed takeover of Clearscore for an independent investigation after the vendors failed to address concerns raised during a preliminary probe.
31 July 2018
Canadian startup Citrusexchange has unveiled a blockchain-based platform for supply chain and invoice financing.
10 July 2018
As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.
03 July 2018
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage from the Linedata Exchange Europe 2018. The theme for this year's event centres around transformation and how digital, operational and industry-wide transformation can be leveraged to deliver growth.
19 June 2018
UK banks will be forced to develop develop alerts for customers who may be about to slip into the red as well as a range of prompts and PFM tools that make it easier to keep on top of finances following a review by the Financial Conduct Authority into the high-cost credit market.
31 May 2018
The largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish Credit Office, is teaming up with local DLT specialist Billon to move millions of credit histories to the blockchain.
14 May 2018
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is looking to bring lending into the digital age, allowing banks to forgo traditional credit checks on some personal loans in favour of big data analysis.
11 May 2018
Following a pilot in Kenya, Mastercard and consumer goods giant Unilever are expanding a digital lending initiative designed to help micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries get credit.
01 May 2018
India's Yes Bank has moved to smooth out its digital lending processes through an API-based integration with Paisabazaar, a marketplace for loans and cards.
24 April 2018
Private equity firm Silver Lake is buying a $500 million stake in personal finance technology outfit Credit Karma from existing investors.
29 March 2018
Challenger bank TSB has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against Britain's high street giants, a business marketplace where SMEs can compare financing options from a host of lenders in one place.
28 March 2018
Monzo and Starling Bank have joined a raft of incumbents to integrate with rent recognition platform CreditLadder to help tenants to improve their credit history with rating agencies.
Kraft, a new Norwegian bank targeting customers rejected by other lenders, has selected Tieto's AI technology for processing loan applications.
23 March 2018
Equifax has identified another 2.4 million US victims of the massive data breach the credit referencing firm suffered last year.
02 March 2018
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