Daon Inks Deal with South Africa’s Capitec Bank

Finovate is not the only company looking forward to doing more business in South Africa. Biometric identity technology solutions provider Daon has partnered with Stellenbosch South Africa’s Capitec Bank in a multi-year agreement that will leverage Daon’s IdentityX platform to develop new authentication solutions. Capitec initially will use the technology to enhance its onboarding process. Read more…

Fiserv and DadeSystems Help Banks Bring Automated A/R to Business Clients

Courtesy of a new partnership between financial services technology solution provider Fiserv and DadeSystems, more banks will be able to access automated account receivables (A/R) technology which they can offer to their commercial clients as either a SaaS or standalone solution. “Businesses spend too much time manually posting payments to invoices – a process prone to Read more…

Million Dollar Bounty: HackerOne Secures Contract from the General Services Administration

The white hat hackers of HackerOne have won a $2 million bug bounty contract with the Technology Transformation Service (TTS) of the U.S. General Services Administration. The firm, which employs ethical hackers to find security vulnerabilities in client websites before the bad guys do, has worked with the TTS for a little over a year Read more…

Webinar: 5 Surprising Ways to Reduce Abandonment During Online Identity Verification

  Increasingly, financial services companies and retail banks are going digital — not necessarily by choice — but as a result of new competitive threats that include new challenger (digital) banks, upstart fintech companies, and even the likes of Amazon and Google. Going digital and giving your customers the ability to open new accounts online Read more…

Get Your VAT Back: Expensify Integrations to Streamline Reclamation

Back to school season is also back to business travel season for many professionals. And this makes the news of two new integrations from expense management innovator Expensify all the more timely and welcome. The San Francisco, California-based company announced today that it has integrated with two major value-added tax (VAT) reclamation solutions: Global VaTax Read more…

Infosys to Acquire Fluido for $76 Million

International technology firm Infosys announced this week it has acquired cloud advisory and consulting services company Fluido for $76 million. This marks Infosys’ second acquisition this year, following its purchase of WONGDOODY in April. Fluido’s excels as one of the largest and oldest platinum consulting partners for Salesforce in Europe and is also an authorized Salesforce training Read more…

Hydrogen, TD Bank Partnership Drives DIY Financial Planning

Clients of TD Bank’s TD Direct Investing will have new tools to build their own financial plans and portfolios – thanks to a newly-announced collaboration between the Canadian bank and fintech innovator Hydrogen. The two companies have entered into a licensing agreement that will integrate Hydrogen’s APIs into TD Bank’s WebBroker platform as the first Read more…

Fiserv Helps Bring Voice Banking to the Aloha State

Voice banking is coming to the customers of First Hawaiian Bank, courtesy of Amazon Alexa and the bank’s decision to extend its partnership with Fiserv. President and COO of First Hawaiian Bank Eric Yeaman highlighted the firm’s long relationship with the Brookfield, Wisconsin-based financial services leader. “We have been working with Fiserv for several years to Read more…

The ABCs of Digital Transformation: A is for Artificial Intelligence

  Finovate has curated an additional summit day that will take place the day after FinovateFall on September 27. The exclusive summit day kicks off at 8am and will focus on two of the technologies that are driving fintech innovation forward in the 21st century: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology. Be sure to register if you’re Read more…

Fenergo Partners with Bank of China US

Bank of China US branches have gone live on Fenergo’s client lifecycle management (CLM) platform, Fenergo CLM, reports Henry Vilar of Fintech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication). Fenergo CLM provides the bank with an end-to-end client management solution enhancing its compliance framework, especially in the areas of know your customer (KYC), anti-money laundering (AML), and customer Read more…

IdentityMind Webstore Helps Businesses Integrate Compliance Solutions

  The new online RegTech store launched by IdentityMind Global today will make it that much easier for companies to integrate compliance and regulatory technologies into their solutions. “The IdentityMind Webstore is the perfect channel for small and medium-sized FinTechs, marketplaces, virtual currency exchanges, small enders, and person-to-person payment (P2P) firms to enhance their platforms,” company Read more…