• Banking technology provider Temenos is launching ESG Investing-as-a-service.
• The tool will help banks and wealth managers offer a digital experience that allows end customers to build an investment portfolio that reflects their values.
• The move comes amid a time of major growth for ESG investing, which is expected to exceed $53 trillion by 2025.

ESG investing has been on the rise for the past couple of years. According to Bloomberg, money held in sustainable mutual funds and ESG-focused ETFs rose by 53% in 2021 to reach $2.7 trillion and ESG assets are on track to exceed $53 trillion by 2025. Banking software provider Temenos has taken note of this and is launching a new tool to help banks and wealth managers compete in the new environment.

Temenos’ ESG Investing-as-a-service, which can be run in the cloud or on-premise, combines Temenos’ market data management and digital capabilities such as filtering, scoring, and modeling techniques with external data feeds. The company generates easy-to-understand ratings to evaluate hundreds of ESG factors such as carbon footprint, water usage, diversity and gender equality, and executive compensation.

“At Temenos, our purpose is to power a world of banking that creates opportunities for everyone,” said Temenos Product Director of Wealth Alexandre Duret. “With the new ESG Investing service, we will help private banks and wealth managers to become compliant, and their customers invest with a purpose. Available as a service on our open platform for composable banking, it provides a fast track for our banking clients to launch innovative ESG investment products underpinned by robust, compliant processes, including new MiFID rules applicable in the EU from August 2022.”

Banks and wealth managers can leverage the tool to create ESG compliant products, with a lower cost of development. Ultimately, they can offer a digital experience that allows end customers to choose investments that they feel good about and build a portfolio that reflects their values.

Temenos serves 3,000+ banking and financial institutions worldwide representing 1.2 billion end customers. The Switzerland-based company has embedded sustainability practices into its own operations with ESG governance, reporting, and measurable targets. The Carbon Disclosure Project awarded Temenos an A- rating along with platinum recognition.

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Just when you might have thought that the momentum behind the Buy Now Pay Later phenomenon might be waning, banking software company Temenos announced today that it is launching its own BNPL offering.

Temenos brings its patented Explainable AI technology to the BNPL party with its Temenos BNPL. The company says that the new solution will give banks and fintechs new revenue opportunities, enable them to access new markets, and strengthen their relationships with both customers and merchants with its ethically-driven lending program.

“In an extremely competitive market, financial services providers need to evaluate new business models to drive revenue,” Temenos CEO Max Chuard explained. “As the strategic technology provider for over 3,000 banks worldwide, we are committed to empowering our clients to pioneer and adopt those new, profitable business models. Buy-Now-Pay-Later has shown the industry that we can come up with new solutions to old problems.”

Temenos BNPL brings transparency to the automated decision-making and credit offer-matching aspect of the Buy Now Pay Later process. Courtesy of embedded Explainable AI, the technology allows clients to pre-approve loan applications or offer variable installments in real-time, contingent on pre-determined criteria. The technology offers visibility into the credit decisioning and provides a recommended payment timetable during the application process so the borrower can be assured of being able to make the repayments as scheduled.

Temenos BNPL is core banking system agnostic – accessible via the Temenos Banking Cloud, which means that institutions and businesses can deploy the technology along with Temenos Transact or any other core banking system. In a statement, Temenos noted that one company – “a global payments provider” – went live with its own Temenos BNPL-based Buy Now Pay Later service and received 22 million loan applications in nine months. The product launch was reportedly the fastest and most successful in the company’s history. It was also especially popular with customers, 70% of whom are repeat users of the technology with 50% using the technology more than once within three months.

“(Buy Now Pay Later) has challenged the way we think about customer engagement, acquisition, and retention,” Chuard said. “We are very excited to launch this new solution to enable our clients to offer alternative financing that is fast, seamless, and scalable.”

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Banking technology provider Temenos has teamed up with telecommunications equipment and consumer electronic giant Huawei this week. Through the partnership, Temenos will make its cloud-native core banking solution available on the Huawei Public Cloud.

The agreement makes Temenos the first core banking software certified with Huawei infrastructure and Huawei Public Cloud.

Specifically, banks will be able to use Huawei Public Cloud to modernize their core banking systems, an action that is critical in today’s digital-first, partnership-forward banking environment. Ultimately, modernizing their core will help banks scale, reduce cost, and gain operational efficiencies by increasing agility and opening up new business models.

“Together, we can help digital-first banks as well as large banks in need of core modernization accelerate their move to the cloud,” said Temenos President of Strategic Growth Philip Barnett. “Our API-first, cloud-native core banking solution based on Huawei Cloud will provide flexibility, agility, elasticity, and accelerate time to market for banks.”

The two will focus on marketing in China, which represents a six billion dollar addressable market. Temenos’ solution will also be available to the broader APAC region and include Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.

Temenos serves 3,000+ banking and financial institutions worldwide representing 1.2 billion people with its cloud-native, API-first technology. Huawei counts more than 2,000 financial institution clients worldwide, including 47 of the world’s top 100 banks.

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Switzerland-based banking technology provider Temenos partnered with digital assets platform Taurus this week. Through the partnership, Temenos integrated Taurus’ digital asset and blockchain infrastructure with Temenos Transact, the company’s core banking software.

As a result, Temenos’ 3,000 bank and FI clients across the globe will have access to digital assets. Taurus will enable them to integrate and manage any digital asset, traditional securities, and cash.

“Investors are increasingly aware of the performance of cryptocurrencies, which can effectively participate in the diversification of a portfolio,” said Temenos Product Director Alexandre Duret. “Taurus is leading the field in cryptography and blockchain technology. By joining forces, we can help banks to bridge the gap between traditional investments and digital assets.”

With its securities firm license from the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, Taurus can cover digital currencies, cryptocurrencies, as well as tokenized assets. The company offers three main products: Taurus-CAPITAL for tokenization and lifecycle management, Taurus-PROTECT for hot, warm, and cold digital asset custody, and Taurus-EXPLORER an API-based blockchain connectivity to more than 10 blockchain protocols.

Temenos has added Taurus’ tools to the Temenos Marketplace, a partner ecosystem of 50+ fintech solutions. All tools in the MarketPlace are pre-integrated for fast implementation.

Founded in 1993, Temenos is a public company, listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker TEMN. The company has a market capitalization of $9.84 billion.

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