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Marketplace Banking Case Study
Category:15. April 2019Celent released a case study on Fidor's marketplace which was awarded the prestigious “Celent Model Bank of the Year” based on clear business benefits, innovation and implementation excellence. Get access to your free copy. Read more...
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Celent recognises Fidor for new E-commerce inspired Marketplace, Efficient Scale
Category:15. April 2019Fidor has today been recognised by Celent as a winner of a “Model Bank of the Year” for its novel marketplace, Efficient Scale. The award was presented at a formal awards ceremony during the annual Innovation and Insight Day in New York. Read more...
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2019 will be the year of AI and Machine Learning
Category:13. March 2019Hassan Nasser, Fidor 's VP Product & Innovation, shares his predictions for 2019 including Bank & FinTech collaboration status and the combination of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotic to automate labour-intensive processes. Read more...
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Financial Inclusion
Category:14. February 2019Financial inclusion, For Fidor it’s not a task, it’s an obligation. Google Trends shows very clearly that search queries for financial inclusion have increased worldwide since 2017 at the latest. But there are major differences. While even today the number of search queries in Germany is barely measurable, the situation is different in Africa where Google searches are very much on the rise. And now consider these results in the light of the emerging mini debate on the topic in German media. Read more...
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Fidor Bank among first of German banks to roll-out Apple Pay support
Category:07. November 2018Fidor Bank has become one of Germany's first banks to integrate with Apple Pay - the service that is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Customers will enjoy the Apple Pay experience at a number of retail and supermarket chains including Aldi, Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka, DM, Aral and Shell. Read more...
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Fidor Market Wins Best Banking Platform from Juniper Research
30. October 2018Fidor Market is a platform that offers a one stop shop for a holistic financial experience. It gives access to a range of fintech offerings from insurance, crowdlending, financing, trading, mobile and TV products in addition to essential tools for consumers and businesses. And all of them have been carefully approved by Fidor. Read more...
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Fidor on Fintech Insider Podcast
25. September 2018Sophie Guibaud, Managing Director Europe, Fidor talks to Fintech Insider about creating communities in banking Read more...
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Mash-up! How Banking-as-a-Service is remixing finance
Category:13. June 2018Greater flexibility, faster to market, a better customer experience - is BaaS the new banking gold standard? a blog post by Gé Drossaert, Vorstand/Board Member and Group CCO at Fidor Read more...
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GDPR & Customer Experience
Category:31. May 2018GDPR might have seemed like a massive administrative burden over the past few weeks but it’s a wonderful opportunity to provide a better experience for your customers. Read more...
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Juniper Research named Fidor as a leading disruptor
Category:16. May 2018Juniper Research highlights that Fidor is actively driving industry transformation through B2B co-innovation and regional initiatives. Read more...
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Webinar: Open Banking, are you ready?
Category:14. May 2018Michael Maier, co-founder, Fidor will join Louise Beaumont co-chair at Open Banking Working Group and Christian Ball Head of Retail Banking at GFT to debate on Open Banking during a webinar hosted by Bobsguide and GFT Read more...
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Celent highlights Fidor Group's innovative use of APIs in banking
Category:03. May 2018“Fidor is redefining the customer experience by taking advantage of architectural openness, partner ecosystems, and a community focus." Read the report Read more...
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Maximising the use of customer data
Category:24. April 2018Sophie Guibaud, from Fidor, talking to Fintech Finance about how they are maximising use of customer data. Read more...
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Agent of change
Category:09. April 2018Matthias Kröner talks to Linked in and Cap Gemini sharing what matters most around customer experience as well as customers’ trust of banks and FinTech firms. He also shares the guiding vision of Fidor and the experience of being acquired by a bank. Read more...
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PSD2 will spark a revolution in financial services - but it won't happen overnight
Category:15. January 2018Fidor Bank's Sophie Guibaud says some banks are doing the bare minimum to comply and most are unprepared for the opportunities PSD2 brings. Read more...
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Predictions for 2018
Category:20. December 2017Sophie Guibaud, VP European Expansion shares her industry predictions for 2018. Read more...
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Artificial intelligence can help banks retain customers
Category:20. October 2017The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services is growing all the time but is dismissed by some as purely a gimmick however, AI offers many exciting possibilities in the banking sector. Sophie Guibaud, explains how AI will boost banks’ efforts to attract and retain customers. Read more...
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API Deep Dive, Why meeting regulatory requirements is not enough for banks to remain relevant?
Category:17. August 2017This paper shares Fidor's experience with banks that wish to become more open. It will look at the role APIs are set to play in the open banking world, and how they will dictate which organisations will prosper. Read more...
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Rethinking Banking with Fidor Bank
Category:07. February 2017Sophie Guibaud explains Fidor's unique business model from co-creating with customers, co-innovating with partners while continuing to drive a change in mindset for more openness. Read more...
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Marketplace Banking Case Study
Category:15. April 2019Celent released a case study on Fidor's marketplace which was awarded the prestigious “Celent Model Bank of the Year” based on clear business benefits, innovation and implementation excellence. Get access to your free copy. Read more...
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Celent recognises Fidor for new E-commerce inspired Marketplace, Efficient Scale
Category:15. April 2019Fidor has today been recognised by Celent as a winner of a “Model Bank of the Year” for its novel marketplace, Efficient Scale. The award was presented at a formal awards ceremony during the annual Innovation and Insight Day in New York. Read more...
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Forbes 2019 World's best banks
10. March 2019Fidor Bank is proud to be listed in Forbes World's Best Banks 2019. For the first time, Forbes ranked banks by consumer choice. Together with market research firm Statista, they surveyed over 40,000 customers around the globe to create the final list. Check out the list. Read more...
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Fidor partners with Finn AI to launch a new AI-powered chatbot for banks
Category:14. February 2019The Fidor chatbot uses conversational AI and natural language understanding to deliver personalised and efficient interactions with users in real-time. Fidor business partners will benefit from a market-ready digital banking platform with pre-integrated conversational AI, including deep machine learning capabilities and natural language understanding. Read more...
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o2 Banking in Germany opens up to Raisin's savings marketplace
Category:23. January 2019In Germany’s ongoing low-interest environment, o2 Banking customers looking for new options to save or invest can enjoy significant benefits from Raisin’s higher interest rates and cost-effective, globally-diversified ETF portfolios. Read more...
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Fidor Bank among first of German banks to roll-out Apple Pay support
Category:07. November 2018Fidor Bank has become one of Germany's first banks to integrate with Apple Pay - the service that is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Customers will enjoy the Apple Pay experience at a number of retail and supermarket chains including Aldi, Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka, DM, Aral and Shell. Read more...
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Fidor Market Wins Best Banking Platform from Juniper Research
30. October 2018Fidor Market is a platform that offers a one stop shop for a holistic financial experience. It gives access to a range of fintech offerings from insurance, crowdlending, financing, trading, mobile and TV products in addition to essential tools for consumers and businesses. And all of them have been carefully approved by Fidor. Read more...
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Gold Award for “Best Neobank” on ADIB’s moneysmart Digital Community at Efma Accenture Awards
Category:24. October 2018EFMA-Accenture awarded Fidor for its partnership with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), in launching moneysmart.ae the region’s first digital community for personal finance Read more...
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Fidor and GFT extend partnership to the Americas markets
Category:22. October 2018This partnership will see GFT USA, Inc. offer Fidor’s operating platform (fidorOS/fOS) and associated services to banks across the Americas. Read more...
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Fidor on Fintech Insider Podcast
25. September 2018Sophie Guibaud, Managing Director Europe, Fidor talks to Fintech Insider about creating communities in banking Read more...
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Fidor Joins Consortium to Create ASEAN Financial Innovation Network’s First Regional API Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox
Category:18. September 2018Fidor signed an agreement with AFIN to create ASEAN’s first API Exchange (APIX) platform as Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox together in a consortium formed with Virtusa and Percipient. Read more...
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A new kind of marketplace, an interview by IBS Intelligence
Category:16. July 2018Sophie Guibaud, Managing Director for Europe, talks to IBS Intelligence about how diversity will be the watchword of the next few years. Read more...
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Fidor and IFC partner to expand digital financial inclusion in developing markets
Category:11. April 2018The agreement will see Fidor and IFC jointly identify opportunities to expand digital banking services in Africa and Latin America to boost financial inclusion. Read more...
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ADIB launches pioneering moneysmart digital community to engage millennials in personal finance, powered by Fidor
Category:21. February 2018Middle East's first community for personal finance has been designed to suit millennials digital lifestyle Read more...
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Fidor Expands Middle East Africa Regional Hub in Dubai Silicon Oasis
Category:21. February 2018Fidor Solutions plans to double its current MEA regional teams within the next 6 months due to growing demand across MEA region. Read more...
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Fidor Bank Wins Silver Award For “Best New Business Ecosystem” at Efma Accenture Awards
Category:21. February 201868,000 votes and a silver award for Fidor FinanceBay, our direct to consumer fintech marketplace Read more...
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Fidor partners with Eight Inc.
Category:21. February 2018Further to its successful Beta Test - Fidor partners with Eight Inc. - to design Fidor FinanceBay, its Digital marketplace, for global launch Read more...
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Fidor launches first of its kind API learning programme with 5 Singapore Polytechnics
Category:21. February 2018Fidor invests close to S$800,000 (€500,000) to develop first-of-its-kind student academy programme for polytechnics in Singapore Read more...
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Fidor Solutions continues its leadership hires, Geert Ensing appointed CIO
Category:21. February 2018Geert has extensive experience in IT for retail banking and commercial banking leading complex IT infrastructures and organisational transformations. Prior to joining Fidor, Geert was Executive Vice President of IT ABN AMRO. Read more...
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Fidor Solutions strengthens its leadership team, Brad Whittfield appointed as Global CFO
Category:10. November 2017Brad has played a key role in advising on a number of high profile fintech acquisitions including businesses operating in digital banking, mobile wallets and digital payments. Read more...
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Fidor partners with Van Lanschot in the Netherlands to create the first PSD2-inspired Payment Avenue
Category:10. November 2017The partnership will enable Van Lanschot to upgrade their payments software and infrastructure using the Fidor digital banking solution. Read more...
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ADIB partners with Fidor to offer community-based digital banking
Category:10. November 2017The new platform is designed to fit the lifestyle of millennial consumers also known as Generation Y. Read more...
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Token Launches Open Banking Mobile App on FidorOS platform
Category:10. November 2017We are glad to unveil the availability of Token on Fidor’s open banking platform FidorOS at Finovate Europe, to support banks that use our platform to easily adopt future payment scenarios, such as the upcoming PSD2 standard Read more...
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Fidor and EPAM Partner to Provide Innovative Global Digital Banking Solutions
Category:19. October 2017Fidor and EPAM Partner to Provide Innovative Global Digital Banking Solutions This partnership will offer Fidor access to EPAM's pool of highly-skilled technical resources for specific project collaborations. Read more...
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A German challenger bank that works like an app-store just got acquired — here's why
Category:29. July 2016German digital bank Fidor is being acquired by Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France. Fidor will continue as in independent business after the deal. Read more...
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Marketplace Banking Case Study
Category:15. April 2019Celent released a case study on Fidor's marketplace which was awarded the prestigious “Celent Model Bank of the Year” based on clear business benefits, innovation and implementation excellence. Get access to your free copy. Read more...
-
Celent recognises Fidor for new E-commerce inspired Marketplace, Efficient Scale
Category:15. April 2019Fidor has today been recognised by Celent as a winner of a “Model Bank of the Year” for its novel marketplace, Efficient Scale. The award was presented at a formal awards ceremony during the annual Innovation and Insight Day in New York. Read more...
-
2019 will be the year of AI and Machine Learning
Category:13. March 2019Hassan Nasser, Fidor 's VP Product & Innovation, shares his predictions for 2019 including Bank & FinTech collaboration status and the combination of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robotic to automate labour-intensive processes. Read more...
-
Forbes 2019 World's best banks
10. March 2019Fidor Bank is proud to be listed in Forbes World's Best Banks 2019. For the first time, Forbes ranked banks by consumer choice. Together with market research firm Statista, they surveyed over 40,000 customers around the globe to create the final list. Check out the list. Read more...
-
Fidor partners with Finn AI to launch a new AI-powered chatbot for banks
Category:14. February 2019The Fidor chatbot uses conversational AI and natural language understanding to deliver personalised and efficient interactions with users in real-time. Fidor business partners will benefit from a market-ready digital banking platform with pre-integrated conversational AI, including deep machine learning capabilities and natural language understanding. Read more...
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Financial Inclusion
Category:14. February 2019Financial inclusion, For Fidor it’s not a task, it’s an obligation. Google Trends shows very clearly that search queries for financial inclusion have increased worldwide since 2017 at the latest. But there are major differences. While even today the number of search queries in Germany is barely measurable, the situation is different in Africa where Google searches are very much on the rise. And now consider these results in the light of the emerging mini debate on the topic in German media. Read more...
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o2 Banking in Germany opens up to Raisin's savings marketplace
Category:23. January 2019In Germany’s ongoing low-interest environment, o2 Banking customers looking for new options to save or invest can enjoy significant benefits from Raisin’s higher interest rates and cost-effective, globally-diversified ETF portfolios. Read more...
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Fidor Bank among first of German banks to roll-out Apple Pay support
Category:07. November 2018Fidor Bank has become one of Germany's first banks to integrate with Apple Pay - the service that is transforming mobile payments with an easy, secure and private way to pay that’s fast and convenient. Customers will enjoy the Apple Pay experience at a number of retail and supermarket chains including Aldi, Lidl, Kaufland, Edeka, DM, Aral and Shell. Read more...
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Fidor Market Wins Best Banking Platform from Juniper Research
30. October 2018Fidor Market is a platform that offers a one stop shop for a holistic financial experience. It gives access to a range of fintech offerings from insurance, crowdlending, financing, trading, mobile and TV products in addition to essential tools for consumers and businesses. And all of them have been carefully approved by Fidor. Read more...
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Gold Award for “Best Neobank” on ADIB’s moneysmart Digital Community at Efma Accenture Awards
Category:24. October 2018EFMA-Accenture awarded Fidor for its partnership with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), in launching moneysmart.ae the region’s first digital community for personal finance Read more...
-
Fidor and GFT extend partnership to the Americas markets
Category:22. October 2018This partnership will see GFT USA, Inc. offer Fidor’s operating platform (fidorOS/fOS) and associated services to banks across the Americas. Read more...
-
Fidor on Fintech Insider Podcast
25. September 2018Sophie Guibaud, Managing Director Europe, Fidor talks to Fintech Insider about creating communities in banking Read more...
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Fidor Joins Consortium to Create ASEAN Financial Innovation Network’s First Regional API Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox
Category:18. September 2018Fidor signed an agreement with AFIN to create ASEAN’s first API Exchange (APIX) platform as Fintech Marketplace and Sandbox together in a consortium formed with Virtusa and Percipient. Read more...
-
A new kind of marketplace, an interview by IBS Intelligence
Category:16. July 2018Sophie Guibaud, Managing Director for Europe, talks to IBS Intelligence about how diversity will be the watchword of the next few years. Read more...
-
Mash-up! How Banking-as-a-Service is remixing finance
Category:13. June 2018Greater flexibility, faster to market, a better customer experience - is BaaS the new banking gold standard? a blog post by Gé Drossaert, Vorstand/Board Member and Group CCO at Fidor Read more...
-
GDPR & Customer Experience
Category:31. May 2018GDPR might have seemed like a massive administrative burden over the past few weeks but it’s a wonderful opportunity to provide a better experience for your customers. Read more...
-
Juniper Research named Fidor as a leading disruptor
Category:16. May 2018Juniper Research highlights that Fidor is actively driving industry transformation through B2B co-innovation and regional initiatives. Read more...
-
Celent highlights Fidor Group's innovative use of APIs in banking
Category:03. May 2018“Fidor is redefining the customer experience by taking advantage of architectural openness, partner ecosystems, and a community focus." Read the report Read more...
-
Maximising the use of customer data
Category:24. April 2018Sophie Guibaud, from Fidor, talking to Fintech Finance about how they are maximising use of customer data. Read more...
-
Fidor and IFC partner to expand digital financial inclusion in developing markets
Category:11. April 2018The agreement will see Fidor and IFC jointly identify opportunities to expand digital banking services in Africa and Latin America to boost financial inclusion. Read more...
-
Agent of change
Category:09. April 2018Matthias Kröner talks to Linked in and Cap Gemini sharing what matters most around customer experience as well as customers’ trust of banks and FinTech firms. He also shares the guiding vision of Fidor and the experience of being acquired by a bank. Read more...
-
ADIB launches pioneering moneysmart digital community to engage millennials in personal finance, powered by Fidor
Category:21. February 2018Middle East's first community for personal finance has been designed to suit millennials digital lifestyle Read more...
-
Fidor Expands Middle East Africa Regional Hub in Dubai Silicon Oasis
Category:21. February 2018Fidor Solutions plans to double its current MEA regional teams within the next 6 months due to growing demand across MEA region. Read more...
-
Fidor Bank Wins Silver Award For “Best New Business Ecosystem” at Efma Accenture Awards
Category:21. February 201868,000 votes and a silver award for Fidor FinanceBay, our direct to consumer fintech marketplace Read more...
-
Fidor partners with Eight Inc.
Category:21. February 2018Further to its successful Beta Test - Fidor partners with Eight Inc. - to design Fidor FinanceBay, its Digital marketplace, for global launch Read more...
-
Fidor launches first of its kind API learning programme with 5 Singapore Polytechnics
Category:21. February 2018Fidor invests close to S$800,000 (€500,000) to develop first-of-its-kind student academy programme for polytechnics in Singapore Read more...
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Fidor Solutions continues its leadership hires, Geert Ensing appointed CIO
Category:21. February 2018Geert has extensive experience in IT for retail banking and commercial banking leading complex IT infrastructures and organisational transformations. Prior to joining Fidor, Geert was Executive Vice President of IT ABN AMRO. Read more...
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PSD2 will spark a revolution in financial services - but it won't happen overnight
Category:15. January 2018Fidor Bank's Sophie Guibaud says some banks are doing the bare minimum to comply and most are unprepared for the opportunities PSD2 brings. Read more...
-
Predictions for 2018
Category:20. December 2017Sophie Guibaud, VP European Expansion shares her industry predictions for 2018. Read more...
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Fidor Solutions strengthens its leadership team, Brad Whittfield appointed as Global CFO
Category:10. November 2017Brad has played a key role in advising on a number of high profile fintech acquisitions including businesses operating in digital banking, mobile wallets and digital payments. Read more...
-
Fidor partners with Van Lanschot in the Netherlands to create the first PSD2-inspired Payment Avenue
Category:10. November 2017The partnership will enable Van Lanschot to upgrade their payments software and infrastructure using the Fidor digital banking solution. Read more...
-
ADIB partners with Fidor to offer community-based digital banking
Category:10. November 2017The new platform is designed to fit the lifestyle of millennial consumers also known as Generation Y. Read more...
-
Token Launches Open Banking Mobile App on FidorOS platform
Category:10. November 2017We are glad to unveil the availability of Token on Fidor’s open banking platform FidorOS at Finovate Europe, to support banks that use our platform to easily adopt future payment scenarios, such as the upcoming PSD2 standard Read more...
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Artificial intelligence can help banks retain customers
Category:20. October 2017The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services is growing all the time but is dismissed by some as purely a gimmick however, AI offers many exciting possibilities in the banking sector. Sophie Guibaud, explains how AI will boost banks’ efforts to attract and retain customers. Read more...
-
Fidor and EPAM Partner to Provide Innovative Global Digital Banking Solutions
Category:19. October 2017Fidor and EPAM Partner to Provide Innovative Global Digital Banking Solutions This partnership will offer Fidor access to EPAM's pool of highly-skilled technical resources for specific project collaborations. Read more...
-
API Deep Dive, Why meeting regulatory requirements is not enough for banks to remain relevant?
Category:17. August 2017This paper shares Fidor's experience with banks that wish to become more open. It will look at the role APIs are set to play in the open banking world, and how they will dictate which organisations will prosper. Read more...
-
A German challenger bank that works like an app-store just got acquired — here's why
Category:29. July 2016German digital bank Fidor is being acquired by Groupe BPCE, the second-largest banking group in France. Fidor will continue as in independent business after the deal. Read more...