9th – 10th October 2017: LendIt Europe 2017

ACI Worldwide announced the extension of its long-standing partnership with UBX Tanzania Limited and is focused enhancing scalability and enabling innovation to support Tanzania’s rapidly evolving digital economy.

Checker, a global network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, announced today that it has raised $8M in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures. Additional participants include strategic financial institutions, such as Bitso and Airtm in Latin America, DFS Lab in Africa, and Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital and Velocity in Asia. Additional investors include fintech operators from Stripe, Tala, Flutterwave, Mesh, ComplyAdvantage, Superstate, and more.

SBS, the global financial technology company that more than 1,500 financial institutions rely on to digitally transform the way they operate, has launched Digital Branch, a cloud-native, tablet-based branch servicing platform that replaces legacy teller systems for UK building societies and banks. Now, institutions can keep branches economically viable and regulatorily compliant at a time when more than 6,000 UK bank branches have closed since 2015.

Federato, the AI-native platform that changes the way insurance work gets done, today announced the appointment of Yogesh Sapre as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Zip (ASX: ZIP), the digital financial services company offering innovative, people-centered products for everyday Americans, and InComm Payments, a global payments technology company, today announced a partnership that brings installment buying to the gift card category. Through the integration, eligible shoppers can purchase popular gift card brands directly in the Zip app.

The Huntington National Bank has joined the CHIPS® network, the largest private-sector U.S. dollar clearing and settlement system in the world, to clear and settle high-value domestic payments.