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20 January 2020 59 downloads

MUFG executes first transaction on blockchain network Komgo

MUFG Bank has successfully executed its first live digital transaction on komgo, a blockchain based commodity trade finance platform led by KomGo SA.

17 January 2020

News/Transaction banking

Ex-CFTC chair launches Digital Dollar Foundation

Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chair Chris Giancarlo is teaming up with Accenture to explore the creation of a US central bank digital currency (CBDC).

17 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

TreasurySpring hires John Bentley as head of sales

TreasurySpring, the London-based financial technology company that enables firms to minimise risk and maximise returns on excess cash balances, today announced that John Bentley has joined as Head of Sales to lead the firm’s expansion strategy.

16 January 2020

News/devops

Rabobank applies low code platform to rebuild Treasury portal

Dutch co-operative Rabobank has used a low-code platform from Siemens' subsidiary Mendix to rebuild an online-only banking portal that manages €18 billion for over 500,000 Belgium- and German-based corporate customers.

16 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

LBBW signs with Planixs

Planixs, the leading provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, today announced that Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), Germany’s largest Landesbank, has selected the Realiti Suite to ensure BCBS 248 compliance and deliver real-time cash and intraday liquidity management.

15 January 2020

News/wholesale

Tradeshift closes in on $240m funding

Supply chain finance outfit Tradeshift is closing in on a $240 million equity and debt funding round as it seeks to hit profitability in the "near future".

14 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

Nick Applebee joins Planixs

Planixs, the leading provider of real time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, has today announced that it has appointed Nick Applebee to their Customer Leadership Team and to grow Collateral capabilities.

14 January 2020

Company update/payments

Credem taps Worldline for Target2 payment processing

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], the European market leader in payment and transactional services, is proud to announce that Credem, one of Italy's leading private banks, has successfully started processing Target2 payments with Worldline’s Payment and Liquidity Hub software Cristal.

13 January 2020

News/Transaction banking

Standard Chartered invests in Chinese supply chain finance platform Linklogis

Standard Chartered has made a strategic investment in Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

10 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

Tradeteq joins IBM's quantum computing network

Tradeteq has joined the IBM Q Network – a group of companies, academic institutions, start-ups and national research labs working with IBM to advance quantum computing.

09 January 2020

Finextra TV/retail

Placing the emphasis on Experience in Banking

Lee James, CTO, EMEA, Rackspace, speaks about Digital Transformation and banking as a service, how both are providing better customer experience, ways consumers are managing their money better, the role cloud plays in this space and how it is likely to evolve.

08 January 2020

Finextra TV/cloud

Cloud adoption, into production

Tim Bull, Solution Director, Rackspace, speaks to FinextraTV about cloud adoption, some of the challenges the industry has learnt from in 2019, how these challnges can be overcome by the banks, what opportunities we can expect to see in 2020 and how banks can move into production.

08 January 2020

News/Transaction banking

Standard Chartered switches on cross-border payments tracker

Standard Chartered has opened a public portal through which clients can track the status of payments messages as they are transmitted over the Swift network.

08 January 2020

News/ai

HighRadius raises $125m

HighRadius, a startup specialising in AI-powered order-to-cash and treasury management software, has joined the unicorn club thanks to a $125 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital and joined by Citi Ventures and Susquehanna Growth Equity.

07 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

CaixaBank implements we.trade blockchain platform

CaixaBank has added the digital trade platform we.trade to its service catalogue for companies.

03 January 2020

Company update/Transaction banking

Standard Chartered hires Rene W. Keller as CIO of corporate banking

Standard Chartered announced the appointment of Rene W. Keller as Chief Information Officer (CIO), Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (CCIB).

02 January 2020

News/retail

Banking predictions for 2020 – more competition, more collaboration and new sources of revenue

As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.

23 December 2019

News/Transaction banking

Finextra's year in review

With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

More and more banks joining the ESG agenda

Jonathan Hughes, Co-Founder, Pollinate International, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about how Pollinate are working with banks to inform them and their customers about better buying decisions to help the environment, changing consumer views about their carbon footprint, the supply chain & impact of purchasing data and whether enough banks have enough of an appetite for Sustainable Finance.

18 December 2019