All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

Saudi Awwal Bank, Mastercard partner on secure digital transactions

As part of the collaboration, SAB will leverage Mastercard Gateway’s advanced Transaction Risk Management technology

Pantheon launches evergreen private equity fund for global investors on growing private wealth platform

Through a single investment, PGPE offers access to a diversified private equity secondary and co-investment portfolio sourced from across Pantheon’s global platform

Infosys to launch mortgage as a service with Better Home & Finance 

MaaS will be offered as an integrated end-to-end digital mortgage white-labelled AI-driven platform to assist banks and credit unions to offer their customers with frictionless digital mortgage and home equity loan experiences

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank rebuilds digital banking system on Google Cloud

The Australian retail bank has moved 33% of its apps to the cloud so far as part of the digital transformation project, reducing disruptions to the customer experience while also satisfying regulatory requirements for transferring extremely sensitive data to the cloud

Thomson Reuters introduces new AI and automation tax product offerings 

According to Thomson Reuters, the new features and enhancements in SurePrep TaxCaddy, Cloud Audit Suite, and ONESOURCE will support the automation of tax workflows

Embedded finance firm Swan opens office in Amsterdam and launches localised Dutch accounts 

In the past three weeks, three companies have already opened hundreds of Dutch accounts for their customers through Swan’s embedded banking platform, demonstrating a strong appetite for its services in the Netherlands

Infosys, AWS join forces to expedite cloud transformation for financial firms across EMEA

The partnership aims to offer technology transformation and industry specific solutions to financial organisations backed by joint investments into go-to-market and delivery capabilities across the region

Visa introduces new global AI advisory practice 

The AI advisory practice is aimed at delivering actionable insights and recommendations to support clients to explore the potential of AI as well as to leverage generative AI

US CFPB orders Citi to pay $26m over alleged discrimination against Armenian Americans 

The investment bank and financial services company will pay $1.4m of the amount to the impacted consumers as well as a $24.5m penalty to the CFPB’s victims relief fund

Dubai Investments acquires additional stake in UK’s Monument Bank 

Dubai Investments had made an initial investment in Monument Bank earlier this year