Let’s talk about PSD2 and open banking. The European Banking Authority is coming to Banking 4.0

At this moment, when a series of central banks and competent national authorities have introduced a transitional phase and new terms for PSD2 compliance, from the perspective of strong customer authentication (SCA) in the online environment, the market needs guidance and answers to a series of questions. At Banking 4.0, The European Banking Authority (EBA) will open the panel dedicated to regulatory authorities and relevant industry associations, with a keynote […]

Let’s talk about challenger banks! Monese is coming to Banking 4.0

Monese has provided basic banking on smartphones since 2015. It gives people in the UK and abroad a chance to experience streamlined, modern finance. Besides being completely mobile cand making your money accessible on the go, Monese takes mobility a step further than the rest, allowing customers to create an account without a UK address. This feature is what makes Monese unique: the ability for anyone to open an account […]

FintechOS and Deloitte Romania partner to offer digital transformation solutions for financial institutions. Both companies are coming to Banking 4.0, FintechOS as main partner.

Deloitte Romania and FintechOS concluded a strategic partnership that offers innovative solutions to financial institutions, in order to accelerate digital transformation and automate business processes. FintechOS is a TaaS (Technology as a Service). It allows banks and insurance companies to redefine their customer experience by offering them a complete digital journey through intelligent automation of digital processes, thus creating hyper-personalized products and experiences for each individual client. “Inspired by Deloitte’s […]

LUXHUB launches best in class API Product for account aggregation. The company is coming to Banking 4.0

After developing one of the leading European Open Banking platforms allowing banks to smoothly comply with the PSD2 regulation, LUXHUB unveils LUXHUB One, „a fast and simple solution for banks and third-party providers to leverage Open Banking without experiencing the amount of work involved to implement fragmented APIs.”, according to the press release. LUXHUB One represents an integration layer that allows access to any financial institution via a unified API, […]

The National Bank of Romania announces the launch of the FinTech Innovation Hub project

Fintech Innovation Hub is a platform for dialogue with companies developing innovative public interest solutions in the area of payment and financial services (FinTech). Thus, the NBR aims to support the market developments in payment and financial services as well as to bring innovation monitoring into line with European trends in the area of payment services and payment instruments, in order to ensure their security and safety. “The FinTech Innovation […]

AI and enhancing the human element in financial services. Will the evolution of the bank progress from neobank and challenger bank to behavioural banks?

At SIBOS 2019, industry experts will be discussing how the financial services sector is in the vanguard of deploying AI on a global scale and whether the technology will be a transformative force or has the potential to act as an existential threat. While the reskilling revolution is sweeping across the financial ecosystem, there is also a growing need for digital ethics that will ensure that major financial institutions efficiently […]

Klarna announces $460M equity raise. The company is now the largest private fintech in Europe.

Klarna, the leading global disruptor of payments and banking, and provider of smoooth retail services, announced it has raised $460 million in an equity funding round, at a post money valuation of $5.5 billion. This investment follows a funding round in April of this year that closed above the company’s $100 million target. This new valuation ranks Klarna as the largest private fintech in Europe and as one of the largest private […]

Salt Edge integrates with 400+ open banking APIs. The global fintech company is coming to Banking 4.0

As more and more banks open their APIs before the September 14 deadline, Salt Edge has added another one hundred to the list of its connected open banking APIs in the EU, making it 400+ integrations. Gaining more speed along the open banking trajectory, just in the last two weeks Salt Edge has added a hundred more APIs and after the big number of 300+ in August has already integrated with 400+ […]

First six international experts, from six different countries, confirmed their presence at Banking 4.0 – International Fintech Conference

Almost three months before the start of the international fintech conference – Banking 4.0, NOCASH presents the list of the first experts from abroad who have confirmed the participation to the event. In the selection of speakers, the organizers sought to cover all areas of interest when analysing the topic of open banking: from regulatory authorities and associations representing segments of the financial services industry, banks, fintechs, IT companies, TechFin […]

Monetary Authority of Singapore opened up applications for new digital banks. Applicants that shows a loss-making trend will not qualify.

. The new digital bank licences will be extended to non-bank players. . Applicants for the digital full bank licence must additionally be anchored in Singapore, controlled by Singaporeans and headquartered in Singapore. . Interested parties have until 31 December 2019 to submit their applications. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) expects to announce the successful applicants in mid-2020. Successful applicants will be expected to commence business by mid-2021. SINGAPORE’S […]