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More than a fifth of businesses in the UK believe decision-makers have not grasped the value and opportunities offered by financial technology providers. In a survey of 500 chief executives, chief financial officers and managing directors of large and medium-sized companies, foreign exchange and payments business Centtrip found a gulf…
Nationwide has invested in a leading fintech, citing its aim to disrupt business banking by delivering “game-changing” customer service both on the high street and online. The building society, the world’s largest, has taken a minority stake in 10x Future Technologies. The fintech will work with Nationwide to deliver its…
Accounting technology group Sage has partnered with payments fintech Modulr to help clients improve their management of accounting and payroll payments. The deal means businesses will be able to process salary and supplier payments within Sage accounting and payroll products Sage’s. Seamus Smith, executive vice president of global payments and…
Interbank network Swift is opening its Know Your Customer (KYC) Registry to corporates, allowing them to exchange data and documents with banking partners, gain efficiencies and prevent duplication. From the fourth quarter of 2019, all of Swift’s 2,000 corporate groups will be able to join the KYC Registry, which already…
Chinese e-commerce payments firm Skyee has appointed global financial crime group Accuity to improve and streamline its compliance screening. Skyee will use Accuity’s Firco Compliance Link, a service which meets international regulatory standards on customer authentication and financial crime screening. “As a pioneering service provider of cross-border payment solutions, Skyee…
Barclays has announced a strategic partnership between its Barclaycard Commercial Payments division and enterprise software firm SAP UK. Barclaycard will integrate its B2B payment product, Precisionpay, into SAP’s global supply chain management platform Ariba. It will be the first product to launch on the Ariba Network, aiming to “combine the…
Traditional banking groups now consider the acquisition of new technologies as justification for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and are adjusting how they assess deals, according to research from consultancy Accenture. The report, Riding the Consolidation Wave: Navigating the Next Wave of Consolidation, is based on a survey of global banking…
ClearBank has been awarded a £60m grant by the RBS Alternative Remedies package to improve business banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The grant is part of a £775m package backed by the UK Government and overseen by Banking Competition Remedies, the organisation established to stimulate competition in the…
Fintechs may be in the spotlight when it comes to innovation, but Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions boss believes the bank can give them a run for their money, finds Joe McGrath. Advances in technology and service for consumers are raising expectations on the corporate level, driving change in the…
Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in Bahrain, recently announced that it has partnered with Token.io as part of the bank’s preparations to provide open banking services to its clients in compliance with the new regulatory requirements. Token is represented by Tarabut Gateway, a subsidiary of…
