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Metrobank, Backbase | May 10, 2021

Backbase, a supplier of engagement banking technologies, has announced the renewal of its relationship with Metro Bank, a major UK retail and commercial challenger bank. Backbase will provide dedicated digital innovation assistance to Metro Bank's business banking customers as part of the renewed relationship. Metro Bank is able to further improve and customise the experience provided to its business customers by using the new cloud-native iteration of Backbase's software, which provides...

Payments

Sphere | May 21, 2022

Sphere, a leading provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payments and security software, today announced that it has launched a new payment solution for Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) that features integration with PAX terminals. PAX is the world's preferred payment terminal solutions provider and has delivered over 60 million terminals to more than 120 countries across the globe. The new solution enables ISVs to integrate their core Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) prod...

SoftBank | February 24, 2020

SoftBank on Monday led a new funding round of $165 million in California-based Karius and invested $100 million in New York-headquartered AI company Behavox, as the technology giant builds a portfolio under its second Vision Fund. The two deals come at a time of intense investor scrutiny into SoftBank’s investments. The Japanese company earlier this month reported a second straight quarter of losses at its first Vision Fund, pushing Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son to scale back his s...

JP Morgan | March 03, 2020

The strategy will emphasise sustainable alpha opportunities emerging from long-term global sustainability themes, such as energy transition, resource efficiency, empowerment, health & wellness, and technology for sustainability. JPMAM believes these sustainable investment themes will lead to considerable structural changes that will result in winners and losers, which present opportunities to also benefit from shorting sustainability laggards within the strategy....