Bank Forward

Wall Street | April 13, 2020

Wall Street’s main indexes slipped on Monday as corporate America launches into what is expected to be a painful quarterly earnings season due to the coronavirus pandemic. JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N) will kick off the reporting season on Tuesday, with analysts expecting an uptick in trading revenue to be offset by declines in other businesses and a bleak outlook for the rest of 2020. The S&P banking subsector. SPXBK shed 2.5%, while the broader fina...

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Fingerprints and Technical Equipment & Supplies Company | September 06, 2022

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) and leading financial and banking solution provider, Technical Equipment & Supplies Company (Tesco), are collaborating to promote and support the adoption of contactless biometric payment cards in the Middle East. The partnership follows a strong start to the year for Fingerprints, with its biometric sensors and software platform for biometric payment cards gaining new grounds in Africa, India, and no...

finextra | April 16, 2020

Finance Forward, a fintech accelerator run by Village Capital, MetLife Foundation and PayPal, has extended the deadline for its European programme to accommodate startups working on Covid-19 applications. The focus for the programme - which now closes for applications on 25 April - is on startups that are building tech for the nearly 40 million Europeans locked out of basic financial services, as well as tools for small businesses. Allie Burns, CEO of Village Capital, says: "A...

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Volante, Citi | January 19, 2021

Volante Technologies, the global pioneer in cloud payments and financial messaging, and Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (Citi) are developing their longstanding relationship to quicken the bank's appropriation of the ISO 20022 financial messaging standard across its global payments operations. Because of this joint effort, Citi will be the principal Volante client to offer a brought together way to deal with ISO 20022 migration across the globe. Citi will be building its cor...