All articles by BV Swagath

BV Swagath

KEB Hana Bank to buy 15% stake in Vietnamese state-owned bank BIDV

KEB Hana Bank has agreed to acquire a stake of 15% in the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and…

Nasdaq and Iraq Stock Exchange sign new market technology agreement

As part of the agreement, Nasdaq will continue providing ISX with matching engine and central securities depository (CSD) technology. This…

UK high street lender Metro Bank confirms talks to sell loan portfolio

The move from Metro Bank comes in the wake of an accounting blunder, reported Reuters. The accounting error is said…

Temenos acquires a SaaS-based, patented, explainable AI (XAI) platform

The acquisition accelerates Temenos’ AI roadmap by bringing together a patented, proven, industry-first XAI platform, AI credit scoring models that…

German fintech N26 secures £136m funding in Series D extension

In January 2019, N26 raised $300m (£241.19m) in the Series D funding round, which has now yielded a total of…

LG rolls out mobile payments solution LG Pay in US

LG Pay will be supported on the LG G8 ThinQ smartphone at launch and available to download on LG V50…

JPMorgan Chase Q2 net income up 16%

In the first quarter of 2019, JPMorgan Chase reported a profit of $9.18bn (£7.4bn), or $2.65 (£2.14) earnings per share.…

RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners to acquire Vida Capital

Vida’s President and CEO, Jeff Serra, along with members of the management team, will invest alongside RedBird and Reverence in…

People’s United Financial to acquire United Financial Bancorp for £606m

People’s United Financial is the holding company for People’s United Bank, while, United Financial Bancorp is the holding firm of…

Pundi X completes integration support for Verifone X990 to enable crypto payments in traditional POS terminals

With this integration, shops and retail outlets using the Verifone X990 with XPOS module activated will now be able to…