Welcome to our recap of the top 5 fintech news from this week of October 2024.
We’ll cover the most exciting developments in financial technology, from groundbreaking innovations and major partnerships to regulatory updates and market trends. Stay tuned to catch up on the latest advancements shaping the future of finance with Financial Technology Insights.
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- How Salesforce Empowers Brokers with AI to Enhance Efficiency and Strengthen Client Relationships?
- AND Solutions, has announced a multi-year agreement with Crayon and Microsoft
- Nium Enables Financial Institutions to Connect to its Real-Time Payments Network via Swift
- Stripe Makes Waves with Stunning $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Bridge Stablecoin Platform
- Wise Platform’s Enhanced Product Suite
How Salesforce Empowers Brokers with AI to Enhance Efficiency and Strengthen Client Relationships?
Salesforce has introduced Financial Services Cloud (FSC) for Insurance Brokerages, a new AI-powered solution that enables insurance brokerages to automate and expedite time-consuming processes such as policy servicing and commission processing. By enhancing and expediting processes (such as plan year renewals) and identifying potential retention risks and coverage gaps, this new offering, which is based on the Salesforce Platform, will assist producers and account managers at insurance brokerages in strengthening their client relationships.
The reason this is significant:Currently, insurance brokerages employ three or more systems to engage clients, which frequently results in fragmented experiences, segregated client data, and disconnected workflows. However, this is rapidly evolving:In order to enhance their operations, 60% of insurers are implementing new technology tools. Insurance brokerages can differentiate themselves in a fiercely competitive market by integrating real-time data, CRM, and AI on a single platform to enhance efficiency and decrease operational expenses.
AND Solutions, has announced a multi-year agreement with Crayon and Microsoft
AND Solutions, a subsidiary of AND Global, a prominent fintech company, has signed a multi-year agreement to become a Strategic Independent Software Vendor (ISV) with Microsoft and Crayon. AND Solutions’ expansion into new markets in the APAC region will be marked by the collaboration, which will enable enterprise clients to optimize their operations by utilizing AND Solutions’ products that are optimized for Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. AND Global is a prominent fintech company that has established a variety of enterprises to advance financial inclusion in Southeast Asia.
Heather Gordon, Regional General Manager for Asia, Global Partner Solutions, Microsoft, added: “AND Solutions has demonstrated innovation, and we are pleased to welcome them as an ISV partner. With a powerful toolkit and infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, we are confident that AND Solutions will successfully scale throughout Southeast Asia and offer business clients innovative and first-class solutions to streamline their operations. Together, we will drive digital transformation for enterprises across the APAC region.”
Nium Enables Financial Institutions to Connect to its Real-Time Payments Network via Swift
“Nium has become the connecting point to the world of real-time money movement,” said Alex Johnson, Chief Payments Officer at Nium. “Our global network includes connections to all the popular real-time payment systems. We understand that integrating with a new set of APIs can require significant investment from already resource-constrained teams. This new capability makes it easy to redirect existing payment flows to Nium and benefit almost immediately from the speed, transparency, and security of our real-time payments network.”
More than 80% of payments completed on Nium’s network will settle within 15-minutes, an important consideration in today’s on-demand economy. Nium receives MT/ISO messages and uses its global infrastructure to route these messages through local clearing and real-time payment rails. Nium ensures that Swift’s GPI tracker is updated in real-time, allowing institutions to continue leveraging this existing solution for payment traceability.
Stripe Makes Waves with Stunning $1.1 Billion Acquisition of Bridge Stablecoin Platform
Additionally, it occurs less than two weeks after Stripe implemented stablecoin payments on its primary payments user interface by incorporating Circle USD (USDC) stablecoin. Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, two former executives of Coinbase, established Bridge in 2022 as a stablecoin-based payments network to compete with the SWIFT network and credit cards. As the director of consumer at Coinbase, Abrams founded Evenly, a peer-to-peer payments company that Square ultimately acquired. Yu has held engineering positions at Coinbase, Square, Doordash, and Airbnb. Some have referred to Bridge as the Web3 equivalent of Stripe, as it enables businesses to generate, store, transmit, and receive stablecoins. Sequoia, Ribbit, Index, and other investors contributed $58 million to the organization this year.
Wise Platform’s Enhanced Product Suite
Wise Platform has expanded its offerings and cultivated partnerships in response to the increasing demand for international payments that are more transparent and expedited. Wise Platform has empowered partners to issue debit cards and provide multi-currency accounts over the past year, thereby simplifying the process of sending, spending, and receiving money internationally for customers. Nubank, one of the world’s largest digital banks with over 100 million consumers, partnered with Wise Platform as its first partner in Brazil to provide its premium clients with multi-currency accounts and debit cards, thereby facilitating seamless international transactions.
Albertine Lecointe, Vice President, Strategy at Qonto said; “We’re now able to better support our existing customers by offering faster, more transparent transactions as well as fair pricing and timely payments with their international business partners. Additionally, this partnership allows Qonto to welcome new customers, enabling them to utilise our daily business banking services across multiple markets and currencies.”
Steve Naudé, Managing Director of Wise Platform said; “Customers want more than just simple transfers—they want the full package: multi-currency accounts,debit cards, and a seamless experience for sending, spending, and receiving money internationally. We’re constantly improving our infrastructure to offer speed, convenience, and transparency at a scale unmatched in the industry. Our growth reflects the appetite from partners—especially banks and large financial institutions—who are looking for the ability to offer world-class cross-border payments without compromising on speed or cost.”
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