All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

ACI Worldwide to extend payments cloud offering with Red Hat

Through the partnership with Red Hat, ACI Worldwide expects to open new ways for its customers to take advantage of the cloud

Stearns Bank partners with Sardine to improve fintech compliance

According to Stearns Bank, the partnership is a first-of-its-kind approach in community banking to provide an all-in-one risk management and compliance platform for sponsored programmes to satisfy changing regulatory and compliance needs

Infinant, Envestnet partner to help banks’ embedded finance clients

The collaboration is expected to enable end users of the bank’s own digital app or embedded finance customers to rapidly verify accounts and connect their account data across various financial institutions

Thunes partners with Saudi Arabia’s new digital bank D360 to power instant cross-border payments across MENA and key global markets 

With upfront cost transparency and confirmation of arrival, this partnership aims to create a simple payment experience

Finastra to enable embedded Bacs payments with Priority Software

By leveraging the Open API module in Finastra’s Bacsactive-IP solution, customers are expected to generate transactions within Priority Software’s product

Software and payments firm Cantaloupe teams up with AWS

According to Cantaloupe, the partnership will optimise manual processes and better streamline the platform to expand globally

Ballerine secures $5m in seed funding round led by Team8

The funding round also saw participation from Vera Equity, Y Combinator and officials from Venmo, Melio, Brex, Trulioo and Coinbase

Waymo and Uber partner to bring Waymo’s autonomous driving technology to Uber platform

Since both companies were founded in 2009, Waymo and Uber have in their own ways each revolutionized access to mobility

Mizuho Financial to buy advisory firm Greenhill in $550m deal

With headquarters in New York, Greenhill offers financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, financings, restructurings and capital raising to partnerships, corporations, institutions and governments worldwide

Yes Bank to transform mobile banking experience with Red Hat

Through the collaboration with open source solutions provider Red Hat, Yes Bank expects to accelerate its digital journey with faster time to market, better flexibility and the ability to power greater innovation