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SEB to buy stake in Kirva

SEB is to buy a minority stake in digital document exchange firm Kirva.

23 January 2024

Document management startup Arteria AI arises $30m

Arteria AI, a document and contract management spin out from Deloitte, has raised $30 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by GGV Capital US.

26 October 2023

News/markets

BNP Paribas invests in AccessFintech

BNP Paribas is the latest banking giant to invest in AccessFintech, joining a previously announced Series C funding round for the capital markets specialist.

10 January 2023

News/markets

Wall Street giants join $60m AccessFintech funding round

Capital markets specialist AccessFintech has closed a $60 million Series C funding round led by WestCap and joined by a host of big banks, including BNY Mellon and Bank of America.

22 September 2022

News/startups

Citi invests in document management spin out Arteria AI

Arteria AI, a document and contract management spin out from Deloitte, has received investments from the strategic investing arm of Citi's Global Spread Products division, and Canada's BDC Capital.

01 June 2022

News/wholesale

Arteria AI to buy H4's FS business assets

Enterprise digital documentation specialist Arteria AI has agreed to acquire the financial services business assets of contract lifecycle management platform H4.

01 December 2021

News/cloud

Capital One leads $15m Lightico raise

Lightico, a startup that helps firms - including banks - collect forms, signatures, documents and payments from customers digitally, has raised $15 million in a follow-on Series B round led by Capital One Ventures.

19 July 2021

News/startups

Lightico raises $13m

Lightico, a startup that helps firms - including banks - collect things like forms, signatures, documents and payments from customers digitally, has raised $13 million in a funding round led by Oxx, with participation from Capital One Ventures and Harmony Partners.

10 November 2020

News/markets

Big banks step up funding for post-trade network AccessFintech

AccessFintech has secured $20 million in Series B financing in an investment round led by Dawn Capital, with additional funding from Deutsche Bank and follow on investing from JPMorgan, Citi, Goldman Sachs

06 October 2020

News/regulation

New blockchain utility claims to cut 80-90% of MiFID costs

A new blockchain-based reporting platform set to launch later this year has vowed to cut 80-90% of asset managers' regulatory reporting costs once it goes live later this year.

23 September 2020

News/startups

Trio of top banks join $27 million funding round in H4

Digital documentation firm H4 has received $27 million in funding from a consortium including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Barclays and Linklaters.

10 June 2020

News/markets

ING and HSBC join £5.7 million funding round in TransFicc

Low latency trading and workflow outfit TransFicc has closed a series A investment round of £5.7 million led by Albion VC with participation from new investors ING and HSBC.

30 April 2020

News/cloud

Success in the cloud: Strategic insights and best practices

The cloud is now the new normal and financial institutions are harnessing and deriving value from the massive amount of data that they possess. Finextra Research’s latest report in association with Amazon Web Services highlights that technology needs to be adopted as quickly, easily and cost-effectively as possible, for scale and flexibility.

21 February 2020

News/Workflow/document management

Starling unveils three new Marketplace partners

The addition of Molo, Underpinned, and Paystream to the Starling Business Marketplace will take the neobank’s business integrations to 14, building on services catering to their 100,000+ business customers.

05 February 2020

News/Workflow/document management

Banks and exchanges join document automation consortium

A consortium formed by legal firms to explore the use of a new automated document exchange standard for capital markets firms has held its second meeting with participation from a swathe of banks and stock exchanges.

28 January 2020

News/Workflow/document management

Polish banks band together to invest in digital signature fintech Autenti

Alior Bank, BNP Paribas and PKO Bank Polski – banks representing approximately 30 per cent of assets in the Polish banking sector – have invested together in Autenti, a Polish fintech which offers a platform for electronic signing and digital document workflow.

16 January 2020

News/Workflow/document management

BNY Mellon saving hundreds of hours a year processing emails with AI

Hans Brown, BNY Mellon's global head of innovation, tells Finextra that the bank's operations team has applied AI to the relatively mundane task of reading e-mails and auto-forwarding them to the relative department.

22 November 2019

News/Workflow/document management

The CIO’s blueprint for streamlining digital business agreements

80% of financial institutions will become irrelevant by 2030 due to their inability to compete with digitally-savvy rivals, according to research by Gartner.

13 November 2019

News/sustainable

Banks must adopt decarbonisation strategy ahead of imminent climate crisis

The influx of green banking initiatives and risk management tools has done little to remedy the expansion of fossil fuel financing and commercial attitudes remain unchanged as we move forward towards what is now a climate crisis, according to Boston Common Asset Management’s 2019 report.

11 November 2019

News/Workflow/document management

Citi partners with WorldLink to enhance supply chain offering

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) has strengthened supplier finance offerings in partnership with the bank's internal platform WorldLink, allowing clients to transact and settle across multiple major currencies in the US with plans to expand globally.

21 October 2019