All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

Napier AI secures £45m from Crestline Investors for AI-driven financial crime compliance

The London-based firm provides AI-enhanced software for financial crime and regulatory technology compliance, offering AML solutions tailored to the banking, payments, wealth, and asset management sectors

Finastra’s Filogix introduces automated lender note capabilities driven by Gen AI

The new function automates the creation of borrower narratives or notes that help in lender underwriting

Intuit introduces QuickBooks Solopreneur 

The comprehensive tool provides a number of easy-to-use features to help solopreneurs stay in control of their finances, create trackable goals, manage business expenses to stay tax-ready, and have the confidence to drive financial stability, all in one place

Orion Innovation to transform banking products and services of Africa and Gulf Bank

Under the terms of the deal, Orion Innovation will deploy Temenos’ cloud-based core banking platform into Africa and Gulf Bank’s operations

Sovos launches compliance cloud solution for tax and regulatory compliance

The new solution will help chief financial officers and chief information officers to maximise their existing investments by integrating itself into an extensive network of partners and technology providers

Commerce Bank goes live with Temenos’ loan origination solution

Commerce Bank’s go-live comes after the successful transformation of its core banking system, migrating from legacy systems for deposits to Temenos’s modern, agile and open platform personalised for the US market

Mobile-first engagement solutions provider Pulsate secures $7.7m in Series A

The financing round was led by TruStage Ventures and Curql Collective

FINBOA, MEA Financial partner on dispute intake and automated compliance processing

The collaboration will enable MEA Financial to promote the FINBOA payment disputes SaaS solution to its clients instead of the manual compliance processes and systems often used by financial institutions

UiPath and Deloitte extend partnership to launch finance automation solution

The newly introduced managed service offering will empower companies to effortlessly establish or expand their automation programme while leveraging intelligent automation to enhance their capabilities and productivity

Zinnia to acquire life and annuity software assets of Ebix

The deal is expected to expand Zinnia’s offerings with insurance focused CRM and agency management, research, quoting, illustration, and order entry tools