On Finovate.com

• SecuredTouch Receives $8 Million Strategic Investment from Arvato Financial Solutions.

• Unison Sees 1,000% YoY Growth in Originations.

Around the web

• IdentityMind Global partners with Etherparty Smart Contracts to provide KYC and AML compliance support. See IdentityMind Global at FinovateSpring next month.

• Intesa Sanpaolo Private Banking Suisse to deploy Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) solution from Avaloq.

• Finastra goes live with its blockchain-based syndicated lending market solution, Fusion LenderComm.

• Forbes interviews Andrea Gellert, CMO of OnDeck.

• Ebay And PayPal finalize new payments agreement.

• Listrak and Persado announce strategic integration.

• Q2 and StoneCastle partner with MoneyLion to offer deposit accounts and debit cards.

• EverTrust Bank hires Insuritas to launch digitally powered insurance agency.

• Backbase powering SSF Bank’s new mobile banking application.

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