On Finovate.com

• Baker Hill Inks Loan Origination Deal with West Texas State Bank.

• Finicity and Cre8tech Labs’ Lender Price Partner to Streamline Digital Lending.

Around the web

• LendInvest partners with Onfido to bring identity verification to LendInvest’s Buy-to-Let digital applications.

• Malauzai and Somerset Trust Company declare August 20th as National Fintech Day.

• Thomson Reuters launches Compliance Management solution, an addition to its Connected Risk platform.

• Ripple announces the transition of David Schwartz from Chief Cryptographer to Chief Technical Officer.

• Identity verification startup Sedicii earns a finalist spot in BBVA’s Open Talent competition.

• Barclays to deploy Finastra’s Fusion Loan IQ system.

• AlphaPoint wins Best Distributed Ledger Technology Provider by the 2018 Water Technology customer survey.

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