Tag : COVID-19
Fenris Announces New Life Insurance Prefill API
Fenris Digital, an enabler of friction-free quoting processes for financial and insurance products, announced the launch of their latest API, Life Insurance Prefill, which helps their clients streamline and personalize the application process online or with agents. The Fenris suite of APIs now includes scoring and prefill solutions for auto, home, and......
RentProfile Selected as the Audience Favourite Winner at the 2020 Visa Everywhere Initiative Pandemic Challenge
RentProfile, a UK proptech powering trust and convenience for the rental market, is named “Audience Favourite Winner” at the 2020 Visa Everywhere Initiative Pandemic Challenge. Read More: DeFiner Announces Latest Investment from SNZ Holding RentProfile was selected out of an initial pool of 1,300 fintech startups, pitching their latest product ‘Onboarding’......
Paving a Path Forward – New Union Bank Survey Finds Minority Small Business Owners in the U.S. Are More Optimistic, Adaptable and Innovative During COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccine outranks presidential election results as top issue impacting their success Despite experiencing significant hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic, a higher percentage of minority small business owners (SBOs) across the U.S. are innovating to keep their small businesses afloat than their non-diverse counterparts, according to new research from Union Bank,......
PayPal and JUST Capital Launch New Collaborative Initiative Encouraging the Nation’s Largest Companies to Prioritize Workers’ Financial Security and Health
As business leaders continue to identify how to respond to the economic impacts of COVID-19, PayPal and JUST Capital, in collaboration with Financial Health Network and Good Jobs Institute, announce a new initiative to make workers’ financial security and health a C-suite priority. The organizations are calling on the CEOs......
Global Fintech App Usage Grew Significantly in H1 2020, Accelerated by COVID-19
New Adjust and Apptopia report reveals average sessions in investment apps surged 88%, while payment and banking app sessions increased by 49% and 26%, respectively Adjust, the global app marketing platform, and app intelligence provider Apptopia, released today The Mobile Finance Report 2020 — a global benchmark of banking, payment and investment apps —......
FirstClose Integrates with Fiserv’s Mortgage Director
FirstClose, a leading provider of technology solutions for banks and credit unions nationwide, has partnered with Fiserv to provide services to Mortgage Director users. With the integration of the FirstClose ONETM platform into the loan origination system (LOS), customers can order instant and bundled reports on flood, valuation, tax and title directly.......
Deloitte Future of M&A Trends Survey: Dealmaker Optimism Remains High as Alternatives to Traditional M&A Take Center Stage
The rise of alternative and virtual dealmaking signals a new era of how deals get done Despite ongoing economic uncertainty amidst a global pandemic, many dealmakers remain optimistic about the outlook for the year ahead as they increasingly pursue alternative merger and acquisition (M&A) methods to navigate the crisis and......
Capgemini’s World Payments Report 2020: Will COVID-19 spark the end of cash payments?
Payment firms are being pushed rapidly into transformation, even as they handle larger transaction volumes, face increased competition and heightened risk factors amplified by COVID-19, according to the World Payments Report 2020 published by Capgemini. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Piers Ridyard, CEO of Radix “COVID-19 has accelerated the rate of innovation within......
Volume of Real-time Payments Surges During Pandemic, FIS Reports in New Study
New research released today by FIS shows that adoption and usage of real-time payments has accelerated amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and the real-time rails are now offering capabilities that extend beyond instant payments. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Brady Harris, CEO at Dwolla FIS’ seventh annual Flavors of Fast report highlights key findings about......