FTB News Desk - FinTecBuzz

Fintech Company EBANX is the Newest Unicorn in Latin America

FTB News DeskOctober 17, 20197 min

EBANX, a payments fintech company headquartered in Brazil that connects global businesses to Latin American consumers, has raised a significant follow-on investment from FTV Capital, a US-based growth equity investment firm. The investment contributed to making the fintech company the newest unicorn of Latin America. “Becoming a unicorn reflects the unique solutions we have created to meet the demands of some of the world’s most recognized brands since we founded EBANX in 2012. From the start, our focus...

Business Tools

Huatai Financial Deploys Itiviti’s Connectivity Solution to Trade via Shanghai-London Stock Connect

FTB News DeskOctober 17, 20193 min

Itiviti, a leading technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, today announced that Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited (Huatai Financial), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huatai Securities, one of China’s largest brokerages, has successfully deployed Itiviti’s connectivity solution to expand its overseas footprint and provide new financing and investment services to its global clients. Itiviti’s connectivity solution, which includes UL Bridge, a renowned multi-protocol and low-latency connectivity platform as well as a powerful all-in-one administration and...

P2P Lending

OpenClose and MGIC Announce Technology Integration Partnership

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20192 min

MGIC Mortgage Insurance Now Available through the OpenClose LenderAssist™ LOS OpenClose, an industry-leading multi-channel loan origination system (LOS) and digital mortgage fintech provider, and Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), the nation’s first private mortgage insurer, jointly announced today the availability of MGIC’s rate quote and mortgage insurance workflows for both delegated and non-delegated MI, through the OpenClose LenderAssist™ LOS. Through this MISMO-based integration, our mutual customers can order MGIC rate quotes and delegated MI or...

Blockchain

FiO brings AI and big data to the Block 3.0 party

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20194 min

Blockchain technology’s incoming third wave promises to radically alter the digital economy by incorporating Artificial Intelligence and big data. One of the companies leading the way is FiO, an innovative new “middleware” ecosystem that has partnered with IBM and is set to help businesses take advantage of the latest blockchain technology. Following Blockchain 1.0 (digital assets) and 2.0 (smart contracts), the approaching Blockchain 3.0 era promises to create compliant independent financial markets and economies that...

Payments

Bill Zielke Joins BitPay as Chief Marketing Officer

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20194 min

Payments Industry Veteran’s 25 Year Career Spans Ingo Money, Forter, eBay, PayPal, Bill Me Later, and Fiserv BitPay, the largest global blockchain payments provider, today announced it has added Bill Zielke as its first Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Mr. Zielke is responsible for executing BitPay’s marketing strategy that supports the company’s growth objectives, builds a strong business and consumer brand, and cultivates increased cryptocurrency acceptance and use. “As BitPay looks to maintain and expand its...

P2P Lending

LionDesk Launches Mortgage CRM and Transaction Management Platform

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20193 min

One of Real Estate’s fastest growing and most popular customer relationship management platforms has released a Mortgage specific version of its upgraded CRM, including Transaction Management LionDesk, a best-in-class sales and marketing platform for sales professionals, announced the introduction of a mortgage industry specific version of their popular CRM and Transaction Management platform. Exclusively inside the new V2 platform, this new version is available to lenders, loan officers, mortgage brokers and more. “We already have a...

Business Tools

Broadridge Enhances Composition Capabilities for Regulatory Communications

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20192 min

Acquisition of Appatura will help clients streamline regulatory and marketing communications Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500® Index, has acquired Appatura Inc., an innovator in regulatory and marketing content management and automation. Appatura’s technology and operational capabilities enable clients to streamline the composition of regulatory and marketing communications, enabling greater consistency and accuracy in content through a more automated process, while meeting regulatory requirements. Appatura serves...

P2P Lending

MBS Highway Integrates with Optimal Blue’s Pricing APIs to Improve Loan Officer Productivity

FTB News DeskOctober 16, 20192 min

Advanced Integration Delivers Compliant, Real-Time Mortgage Comparisons Optimal Blue, the leading provider of secondary marketing automation and services in the mortgage industry, announced today the integration of MBS Highway’s mortgage market data and analytics platform. Through direct integration with Optimal Blue’s full suite of product eligibility and pricing APIs, MBS Highway’s advisor platform now seamlessly enables real-time, compliant, and personalized scenario comparison pricing, initiating an insightful and high-conversion mortgage loan process. By integrating with Optimal Blue’s modernized...

Interview

Interview with Co-Founder and CEO of Biz2Credit – Rohit Arora

FTB News DeskOctober 10, 201924 min

Banking

Michael Tavarozzi Named Managing Director, Growth of Evolve Bank & Trust’s Mortgage Division

FTB News DeskOctober 2, 20193 min

Evolve Bank & Trust (“Evolve”) announced the appointment of Michael Tavarozzi Managing Director, Growth of its Mortgage Division. “I am thrilled to add Michael to our growth team where he will be developing new mortgage branch locations from New England down to Florida and more,” said Lance Lemoine, President, Mortgage Division. “He has consistently proven his capabilities to grow and positively influence his teams, clients and referral partners over the past two decades and brings a level of professionalism...

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