Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

A major sell-off in the stock market is giving investors jitters as August begins in earnest. Funding news for companies in lending and wealth management leads the fintech news this week. Be sure to check back over the next few days for the latest updates and announcements.

Lending

U.K.-based SME lender Shawbrook partners with nCino to automate loan origination.

Alternative financing company for mid-sized SMEs, ThinCats, secures a £75 million mezzanine facility.

Loyalty and rewards

Bilt Rewards receives $150 million investment at a valuation of $3.25 billion.

Digital banking

NCR Voyix announces agreement to sell its digital banking business to Veritas Capital for $2.45 billion in cash.

Zafin and 10x Banking forge global partnership to accelerate core banking system modernization.

Missouri Central Credit Union partners with Bankjoy to enhance its digital banking capabilities.

Banking technology and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) innovator Mbanq launches new suite of white-label mobile digital banking apps.

Wealth management

Financial advisor platform Savvy Wealth secures $26.5 million in Series A funding.

Payments

International trading broker Markets.com selects Worldpay to monitor its global payments processing and fund disbursements.

Payments platform Thredd introduces Chief Client Officer Brian Kieley.

Kickfin to use SkyTab POS to enhance restaurants’ tip payout process.

Layer2 raises a $10 million in Series A funding.

Credit Union of America selects NCR AtleosAllpoint Network to expand access to cash.

Cybersecurity and digital identity

Fingerprint Cards appoints David Eastaugh as Chief Strategy and Technology Officer.

J.P. Morgan Payments and PopID to expand biometric offerings.

Financial literacy and education

U.K.-based Yorkshire Building Society teams up with financial education company Doshi to provide online program for first-time prospective homeowners.

Regtech

Anti-financial crime solution provider AMLYZE announces strategic partnership with pre-transaction crypto compliance specialist Notabene.

Small business banking

Flywire acquires Invoiced to bolster its global B2B payment network.

Egypt-based Cartona raises $8.1 million to grow its B2B platform.


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AMLYZE Teams Up with Aura Cloud to Enhance Financial Crime Fighting Tools

AMLYZE Teams Up with Aura Cloud to Enhance Financial Crime Fighting Tools

AMLYZE, a regtech specializing in combating financial crime that made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope earlier this year, has forged a strategic partnership with Aura Cloud. Headquartered in Lithuania, AMLYZE offers anti-financial crime solutions for a variety of financial services providers, including fintechs, banks, and cryptocurrency firms. The company’s partnership with Sweden-based Aura Cloud will combine the latter’s expertise in financial crime prevention with the former’s digital banking solutions.

AMLYZE Co-Founder and Head of Partnerships Jekaterina Govina praised Aura Cloud for its “commitment to agility and innovation” which Govina said “aligns perfectly with our mission to provide AML/CFT solutions, built by regulatory insiders who understand customer pain points from the inside out.” Govina added, “Together, we will empower financial institutions to stay ahead of the curve in the fight against financial crime.”

AMLYZE leverages AI, synthetic data, and the power of the network to offer a paradigm-shifting approach to AML. The AMLYZE platform’s use of synthetic data and privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) enables aggressive adoption of AI and machine learning techniques and strategies that do not violate confidentiality or breach data privacy. The company’s technology can be deployed to provide real-time and retrospective transaction monitoring, customer risk assessments, AML/CFT investigations, and PEP, sanctions, and negative media screening. Moreover, AMLYZE’s model facilitates not only effective financial crime detection, but also AI model training, testing of automated solutions, and AML staff training.

“(AMLYZE’s) automated transaction monitoring and customer risk assessment solution provides additional possibilities for our core banking platform customers to have (a) state of the art solution to minimize financial crime and enhance compliance,” Aura Cloud CEO Prem Bhagwat said. “We see this partnership as an excellent addition to our current partnership ecosystem in Northern Europe and beyond.”

Headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, AMLYZE made its Finovate debut earlier this year at FinovateEurope 2024 in London. The company has raised $1 million (€1 million) in pre-seed funding, courtesy of an investment round led by Practica Capital, a major venture capital firm based in the Baltics, and FIRSTPICK, a Baltics-based accelerator and venture capital fund.


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AMLYZE

AMLYZE is a regtech company and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider offering a suite of solutions to combat financial crime.

Features

AMLYZE creates a paradigm shift in AML efficiency through AI and the power of network through the following:

  • Allows hyper-focus
  • Enables the power of AI through machine readable data
  • Delivers distributed AML operations

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, payment providers, small-and-medium-sized businesses, individuals, VASPs, fintechs, financial intelligence units, and regulators.

ShareID

ShareID is an Authentication-as-a-Service solution tied to government-issued IDs, equivalent to border control with a simple smile and in real-time, without storing any PII or biometric data.

Features

  • Delivers 99.9% precision rate on document authenticity due to partnership with the French Military Police
  • Executes 92% conversion rate on the first attempt
  • Includes liveness and anti-spoofing algorithms

Who’s it for?

Banks, neobanks, fintechs, payment providers, crypto providers, and insurance providers.

Sikoia

Sikoia’s Affordability Insights automatically derives sophisticated analyses from bank statements, open banking and payslips alike, unlocking richer financial insights.

Features

  • Plug-and-play with multiple types of customer bank data
  • Consistently recognizes income and expenses in real time
  • Includes a unique library of data models and templates to recognize anomalies

Who’s it for?

Banks, intermediaries, building societies, and consumer lending platforms.

TradingValley

TradingValley is a robo-investing solution provider in Taiwan, focused on providing AI-powered investing algorithms.

Features

  • Offers robo-investing technology for both B2C and B2B companies
  • AI fund manager helps investors screen investing opportunities
  • Tailor-made for different investing practices within different institutions

Who’s it for?

Financial institutions, individual investors, and family office or small asset management firms.