Digital Banking Weekly #54

🇮🇳 WhatsApp to pilot projects to deliver credit, insurance and pension to users in India 🔗 Read more

💳 Hong Kong based neobank WeLab rolls out numberless debit card with Mastercard 🔗 Read more

🇩🇪 Deutsche Bank has announced its investment in the Frankfurt-based fintech Traxpay GmbH to expand its supply chain finance offering 🔗 Read more

🇪🇺 The European Central Bank says EU financial institutions have an over-optimistic view of their IT resilience and resistance to cyber threats owing to an undue reliance on outsourcing and legacy wiring 🔗 Read more

📱 Indian YES Bank deploys AI robot to interact with customers on WhatsApp 🔗 Read more

🇬🇧 The UK Government has commenced a review into the nation’s fintech industry, viewed as a key lynchpin in the country’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic 🔗 Read more

💚 Mastercard is launching a sustainable card programme to get its card issuers to switch to greener alternatives such as recycled, biodegradable and ocean plastics 🔗 Read more

🇧🇷 The biggest digital bank in Latin America, Nubank, has purchased the US software company behind the Clojure programming language, marking its first acquisition outside of its native Brazil 🔗 Read more

🇺🇸 Samsung Money by SoFi has officially been released in the USA and brings exclusive discounts  🔗 Read more

✈️ First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has been chosen by Etihad, as its card payment processing partner for both online and in-store card payments 🔗 Read more

🇬🇧 London-based property-backed loan fintech Seline, raises £42m 🔗 Read more

🇵🇱 Onfido has signed up one of the largest banks in Poland. Alior Bank will start to use its ID verification technology for the bank’s mobile account opening 🔗 Read more

🎮 Razer’s virtual only digital bank proposition aims to dazzle the global youth 🔗 Read more

🌍 Orange and NSIA launch Orange Bank Africa to provide greater access to financial services and improve the financial inclusion of people living in West Africa 🔗 Read more