Wealth Management
CapIntel | September 07, 2023
CapIntel has introduced a comprehensive digital wealth management platform called OMNI. This platform's capacity to provide a complete, all-encompassing perspective on their investments makes it easier for financial advisors to offer comprehensive guidance to their clients.
OMNI has been created to empower financial advisors, augmenting their client rapport. It is an interactive, user-friendly presentation generation tool that seamlessly incorporates compliance measures and secure sharing protocols. This integration facilitates the simplification of financial discussions, thereby fostering improved decision-making processes for advisors and investors.
James Rockwood, Founder and CEO of CapIntel, said,
With an ongoing commitment to advancing technology in the financial industry, OMNI sets the stage for a transformational shift in advisor-client and advisor-asset manager conversations. By providing advisors with a comprehensive and interactive presentation tool, OMNI aims to elevate the value proposition of advisors and create an impeccable digital experience for clients.
[Source: Cision PR Newswire]
He believes the introduction of OMNI would further strengthen the bond between advisors and their clients, ultimately improving their financial outcomes. He emphasized that this release marked a significant milestone in CapIntel's vision to reshape the financial industry and assist advisors in their digital transformation endeavors.
The CapIntel platform is centered around creating contemporary, easily accessible, trustworthy, enlightening, and personalized financial presentations. These presentations serve a dual purpose - enabling advisors to demonstrate the significance of human relationships and expertise while enhancing their comprehension of financial objectives and their attainability for retail investors. The forthcoming launch of OMNI represents an occasion for North American advisors to encounter this pioneering platform's capabilities and possibilities directly.
About CapIntel
CapIntel enhances the overall experience of wealth management professionals and investors through its user-friendly, web-based applications. At the core of the company's mission is elevating personal finance, with a significant focus on nurturing wealth growth through strategic investments while fostering meaningful dialogues between advisors and their clients. CapIntel's platform empowers financial experts to provide transparent, data-driven, and personalized information to their clients, enabling them to gain a deeper understanding of their investment portfolios and find reassurance in the security of their financial futures.
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Payments
Treasury Prime | September 20, 2023
Treasury Prime, a leading provider of state-of-the-art embedded banking software solutions, has formally introduced a strategic collaboration with Astra, a tech company renowned for its expertise in pioneering instant payment solutions. This partnership signifies a significant step forward in modern financial technology.
Mark Vermeersch, Chief Platform Officer at Treasury Prime, expressed that Astra's transfer technology offers remarkable speed, efficiency, and accessibility. When combined with an embedded finance marketplace, it has the potential to revolutionize transaction processes for businesses and end-users, thereby shaping a more interconnected and dynamic financial sphere.
By harnessing Astra's cutting-edge technology, Treasury Prime's customer base gains access to instant account funding and swift disbursement options via the push-to-card feature. This enhancement marks a significant stride in streamlining payment processes, promising increased efficiency and effectiveness for financial institutions and corporate entities.
Gil Akos, Co-Founder and CEO of Astra expressed enthusiasm about the partnership with Treasury Prime. He emphasized the significance of instant payment technology in revolutionizing financial transactions by providing expedited access to funds while ensuring elevated efficiency, security, and convenience levels. He anticipates that this collaboration will empower businesses to harness the potential of instant transactions, fueling growth, improving customer experiences, and promoting financial inclusion.
These recent partnerships with Sardine and Checkout.com signify Treasury Prime's commitment to forging strategic alliances, further solidifying its position as a leader in the industry. Additionally, the introduction of OneKey Banking, a pioneering multi-bank solution, and the successful closure of a $40 million Series C funding round earlier this year have underscored the company's dedication to innovation and growth within the financial technology sector.
About Treasury Prime
Treasury Prime offers comprehensive, sophisticated services, including money transfer, risk management, and access to a chartered bank's infrastructure. It collaborates with forward-thinking financial institutions to foster responsible innovation and expand access to banking products and services across diverse population segments. The company's excellence has been recognized through awards such as the Best Banking-as-a-Service Platform in the Tearsheet Embedded Awards for 2021 and 2022 and its inclusion in CB Insights' prestigious 2021 Fintech 250 list.
About Astra
Astra is a prominent purveyor of cutting-edge bank-to-bank transfer technology tailored for financial institutions, fintech companies, and enterprises. Gil Akos and Sam Morgan co-founded the company in 2016. The company's distinctively designed, vertically integrated API offers a streamlined means for developers to seamlessly incorporate financial automation into their pre-existing products.
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Core Banking
Sagent | September 18, 2023
Sagent, a prominent fintech software company specializing in modernizing mortgage servicing for banks and lenders, has announced an extension of its partnership with The Central Trust Bank (Central Bank). Backed by Warburg Pincus, Sagent's mission is to facilitate the transformation of mortgage servicing operations through scalable fintech solutions. This six-year extension signifies their commitment to empowering the Central Bank with cutting-edge technology, ensuring efficient operations, enhancing the customer experience, and addressing the ever-evolving demands of the mortgage industry.
Central Bank's decision to extend its partnership with Sagent underscores the value of Sagent's cloud-based LoanServ system. This system is the cornerstone of Central Bank's mortgage servicing operations, offering agile and highly configurable technology that automates intricate, high-volume tasks and workflows. By leveraging Sagent's fintech solutions, Central Bank aims to deliver an exceptional customer experience while remaining adaptable to the dynamic landscape of customer needs and regulatory requirements. This extension solidifies the role of technology in driving Central Bank's growth and competitiveness within the mortgage servicing sector.
Steve Komaromi, COO of Loan Servicing at Central Bank, commented,
Central Bank remains committed to its strong community roots while embracing growth opportunities through partnerships with industry leaders like Sagent to power ultra-personalized, full-service banking that helps us engage, care for, and retain our customers through every step of the homeownership journey.
[Source –Business Wire]
Central Bank's mortgage servicing technology from Sagent improved operational efficiency, kept them at the forefront of fintech innovation and met customers' expectations for a mobile-friendly banking experience. Steve also expressed Central Bank's enthusiasm for this extended partnership, highlighting the opportunity to expand their servicing customer base and accelerate innovation to serve their customers better.
Central Bank, rooted in community-first principles since its inception in 1902, has left an indelible mark across over 140 locations in the Midwest. With a century of service-driven banking, it has consistently earned accolades such as 'Best Customer Service Bank' by Newsweek and recognition in Forbes' prestigious list of 'America's Best Banks.' Sagent has over $2 trillion in outstanding mortgage balances on its platforms and is the only enterprise, default, and consumer mortgage servicing platform synchronized with real-time data in the industry.
About Sagent
Sagent is the driving force behind America's foremost bank and nonbank lenders, revolutionizing the homeownership experience for millions of borrowers. The company's mission is to empower enterprises and banks that help engage, nurture, retain, and modernize relationships with borrowers. Its flexible, scalable, and highly configurable solutions enable users to engage borrowers and cultivate loyalty effectively. In addition, Sagent's solutions help reduce servicing costs, ensuring compliance and amplifying the value of servicing rights throughout the entire spectrum of market cycles.
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Payments
Central Payments | September 11, 2023
Central Payments has announced the introduction of an inventive disbursement platform known as PayCP. The portal, which Central Payments has developed in less than 30 days, aims to empower partners to initiate and oversee payouts and access historical and analytical information while delivering a fully-branded and user-friendly experience for customers to select their preferred method of fund reception.
The initial stage of PayCP introduces a range of payment options, including virtual Discover Prepaid Cards, physical Discover Prepaid Cards, real-time push-to-debit card transfers via Mastercard Send, and ACH bank transfers. Central Payments has an extensive plan in place throughout the rest of this year and into 2024, encompassing the enhancement of payment choices and the diversification of payout scenarios.
PayCP will act as a white-label, turnkey solution that enables businesses to offer their customers various options for receiving payments, according to Nikkee Rhody, Executive Vice President and Chief of Strategy at Central Payments.
She further pointed out that with the launch of PayCP, the platform can readily support various use cases, such as assisting companies in swiftly and digitally disbursing rebates, loyalty, incentive, or reward funds to their customers. This enables partners to transition from traditional paper check mailings and opt for secure, cost-effective digital methods.
PayCP will set itself apart with its cost-efficient and swift payout capabilities, presenting two noteworthy benefits - simplifying the prompt transfer of funds to a company's customer base and optimizing the payment procedure.
About Central Payments
Central Payments is a US-based financial services firm established by banking professionals to enhance financial experiences globally. The company specializes in creating, delivering, and maintaining payment solutions through its renowned proprietary OpenCP API Marketplace. This marketplace provides partners with a consolidated gateway to the full spectrum of payment services.
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