CORE BANKING
Brankas | November 24, 2022
Open Finance technology leader Brankas has developed "Brankas Open", a first-of-its-kind open source license for the next generation of Banking-as-a-Service and Open Finance software.
The "Brankas Open" license is meant to encourage digital banking and fintech innovation and lower the cost barriers for startups, neobanks, and even traditional institutions to quickly prototype and launch new solutions, while retaining their own source code. Customers will benefit from more choice and better user experience, as companies have open access to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on the publicly available Brankas Open code.
The inspiration for Brankas Open came when Brankas received a grant from the Monetary Authority of Singapore in November 2021 to develop Brankas APIX Open Core, a proof of concept open source core banking system.
Recognizing the need for a modernized Open Source framework to address new Open Finance technology, Brankas looked to existing open-source licensing frameworks in order to develop Brankas Open. Brankas felt that this framework was necessary to protect community contributions, ensure open access, and comply with financial institutions' data protection and security requirements.
"Brankas' Open license allows our team to build and contribute in a way that is fair, equitable, and open to independent developers, FIs, and to our partners. With this license, Brankas is able to continue to invest in the greater open source community, and to share our code freely with the world,"
- Brankas co-founder and CTO, Kenneth Shaw
Brankas has been advised by Ren Jun Lim, Alex Toh and Darren Leong from Baker McKenzie's Singapore-based Intellectual Property and Technology (IPTech) practice group.
About Brankas
Brankas is the leading Open Finance technology provider in Southeast Asia. We provide API-based solutions, data and payments solutions for financial service providers (like banks, lenders and e-wallets) and online businesses. Brankas partners with banks to build and manage their Open Finance infrastructure, producing APIs for real-time payments, identity and data, new account opening, remittances, and more. With Brankas' secure Open Banking technology, online businesses, fintech companies and digital banks can use Brankas APIs to create new digital experiences for their users.
About Baker McKenzie
Baker McKenzie provides integrated client solutions that are underpinned by deep practice and sector expertise, as well as keen local market knowledge. These connected solutions provide insight and foresight, empowering business leaders to make the right decisions across siloes. Gain access to seamless legal advice across all your IP and technology needs including protecting and commercialising your intangible assets, advice on licensing and regulatory matters, legal issues in the area of internet of things (IoT), data protection, sector-specific dispute resolution, tax-related issues, labour law, competition and antitrust, commercial contracts and restructuring. Benefit from a team with a unique culture which enables our 13,000 people to work with clients as trusted colleagues and friends to drive innovative growth that is both sustainable — and inclusive.
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
WBI and Pacer ETFs | November 21, 2022
WBI, an invest-tech and fintech company, and Pacer a 9-time award winning exchange traded fund provider, today announced a strategic partnership to transform how financial advisors interact with clients to personalize and implement model portfolios.
WBI is a 2-time award winning fintech platform offering investment technology that optimizes multi-manager portfolios that target loss or return. With inputs from the client and assistance from a financial advisor, the platform’s interactive toolkit establishes client benchmarks for loss and return. The imbedded invest-tech then optimizes a portfolio to meet the client’s targets. Financial advisors can instantly customize the portfolio(s) to position the client for success.
Pacer is a 9-time award winning exchange traded fund provider that has been recognized for its client-focused philosophy. One of the industry’s leading firms in strategy-driven, rules-based ETFs, Pacer continues to seek innovative and timely ways to serve investor needs and adapt to market conditions.
“WBI is excited to work with Pacer. Their rules-based ETF offerings seek to produce strong risk-adjusted returns which are favored by the platform’s optimization engine, This partnership allows both parties to build on the momentum around our innovative products and shared mission to help improve investor outcomes.”
-Matt Schreiber, Co-CEO at WBI
One of America’s leading investment technology firms, WBI invest-tech features a multi-manager machine optimization engine that builds portfolios that aim to target a specific level of loss while attempting to maximize return. The firm’s proprietary Capital Power RatioTM seeks to unleash capital compounding.
Similarly, Pacer’s Cash Cow Series aims to generate capital appreciation by investing in companies with high-free-cash-flow yield that are trading at a discount. The firm has grown their AUM by $10.3 billion in the last 14 months.
Bruce Kavanaugh, Head of Investments at Pacer Advisors, was just as excited about the newly formed partnership, commenting, This now allows Pacer to introduce cutting edge model solutions to advisors through an award winning technology leader.
Besides promoting the targeted loss portfolios of WBI’s technology platform, WBI and Pacer will look for other opportunities to partner on model construction.
About WBI
Founded in 1984, WBI is a trailblazer of technology-driven, goals-based wealth management solutions. The firm is a pioneer of active cash-hedged separately managed account and ETF strategies. WBI’s award-winning digital wealth management platform combines financial planning concepts and distinguished innovations to portfolio optimization and construction. WBI is a leader in providing client solutions tailored to their personal benchmarks for loss and return.
About Pacer ETFs
Pacer ETFs is a strategy-driven exchange-traded fund provider with 45 ETFs and over $18.5 billion in assets under management, as of 11/14/22. Pacer ETFs is focused on addressing investors’ needs through its six fund families, the Pacer Trendpilot® Series, Pacer Cash Cows Index® Series, Pacer Custom ETF Series, Pacer Thematic ETF Series, Pacer Factor ETF Series and Pacer Swan SOS ETF Series. Pacer ETFs employs a rules-based, passive management approach to track S&P, NASDAQ, FTSE Russell, and Custom Indexes.
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
FINTAINIUM and DataSeers | November 22, 2022
Atlanta-based fintech DataSeers and Jacksonville-based FINTAINIUM announce a new partnership to further expand FINTAINIUM's unified cash flow management platform. FINTAINIUM will be using DataSeers' industry leading SaaS solutions like IdentitySeer and ReconSeer to help financial institutions attract, retain, and grow business relationships.
DataSeers will be providing essential back-office services and payments capabilities through their platform specifically designed for banking and payments to help manage critical operations such as reconciliation, compliance, fraud detection, onboarding, and analytics.
Knowing your customer is the first line of defense for fraud, risk, and compliance, but it's still one of the biggest challenges for banks and credit unions. Implementation of a top-tier product like IdentitySeer proves an institution's commitment to providing financial services while keeping out bad actors.
We are pleased to develop this new partnership with Fintainium and together leverage this flexible and scalable platform to provide elevated services in onboarding, reconciliation, and others to their customers in the financial space," says Adwait Joshi, Founder and Chief Seer at DataSeers.
"We have the leading solution in the cash management space and are honored to connect with DataSeers to provide the essential function of embedded reconciliation to the market,"
-Richard Jackman, Chief Executive Officer of FINTAINIUM
About FINTAINIUM
FINTAINIUM delivers back-office innovation for financial institutions and streamlines end-users' payments and cash flow management processes. With headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida, and operations in Toronto, Canada, FINTAINIUM facilitates enhanced services between financial institutions, businesses, and other technology companies. Fintainium is a modular platform with the newest technology to work seamlessly with financial institutions and ERP systems. Fintainium's technology enables features such as embedded payments and lending, an integrated CFO toolkit with business intelligence, cash flow management tools, and back-office automation. Fintainium is the only unified platform that combines all these features into a simple, easy-to-navigate user interface. Fintainium was named a Best Startup in Jacksonville by The Tech Tribune.
About DataSeers
DataSeers is an Atlanta-based FinTech that has engineered a unique solution for effectively harnessing complex data. Its FinanSeer® software is AI-powered and specifically designed to help banks and payments companies improve their onboarding, reconciliation, compliance, fraud detection, and analytics in one user-friendly platform.
DataSeers was established in 2017. Since the creation of DataSeers five and a half years ago, the company has changed office spaces five times to accommodate its steady client and staff growth.
The company has won multiple awards. With three-year revenue growth of 427 Percent, DataSeers received ranking No. 1503 among America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies in the annual Inc. 5000 list. The company was named one of the Best Places to Work in FinTech by American Banker. DataSeers was recently selected in the AIFinTech100 for 2022. DataSeers received a 2021 Atlanta Business Chronicle Pacesetter Award as one of the 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Atlanta. The Technology Association of Georgia recognized DataSeers as one of its "Top 40 Technology Companies" three years in a row. The company has also received the LexisNexis® Risk Solutions HPCC Systems® Community Recognition Award for creating a "Truly Unique Solution" leveraging the HPCC Systems open-source data lake platform. DataSeers was among Atlanta Inno's 2019 "50 on Fire" companies in Georgia. The company was also a winner in the New to Export category at the 2019 GLOBE Awards presented by the Georgia Department of Economic Development and among the 2020 award recipients.
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