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Banking

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טל וויזר פינסטרה

Open banking is conquering the world, but in Israel there is still a long road ahead

03.01.22|Tal Weiser
"Open banking is a huge economic opportunity that offers regeneration and the building of new sources of income for banks and commercial companies," writes Tal Weiser of Finastra
אמנון שעשוע מובילאיי

Israel’s First Digital Bank secures $120 million Series A at $320 million valuation

14.12.21|CTech
The Israeli AI-based digital bank has secured investments led by renowned Swiss wealth management group Julius Baer, Japanese financial conglomerate SBI, and China-based technology company Tencent
בן פלוטקין

“Large global food-focused companies are looking to Israel for acquisition and investment opportunities”

09.12.21|Golan Hazani
American investment bank Stifel opened a representative office in Tel Aviv at the end of 2019, just prior to the markets being shaken up by the coronavirus. Since then, the bank has been involved in over 40 transactions involving Israeli companies totaling over $22 billion in aggregate value. "The capital raises of Israeli companies in foodtech can jump 10-fold to large raises of $100-300 million," said Vice Chairman of the bank, Ben Plotkin
סיטי סיטי גרופ סיטיבנק Citi

Citi recruiting Tel Aviv crypto experts for digital assets division

24.11.21|Meir Orbach and Reuters
The U.S. banking giant is looking to create 100 roles focused on digital assets including blockchain and digital currencies at its institutional division
עדי פז מנכ"ל גיגהספייסס

Bank Leumi leads $13.5 million round in GigaSpaces

10.11.21|Golan Hazani
The Israeli banking powerhouse will also integrate GigaSpaces Big Data tech into its systems
אמנון סמיד BitMint

Will central and commercial banks negatively disrupt innovation?

02.11.21|Amnon Samid
"Deploying well-designed central bank-issued digital currencies may transform our societies to become modern, innovative, more resilient and very user-centric economies, however, several central banks are taking an 'irritating' route that raise 'censorship' concerns, and even might be risky from a national and global security point of view," writes Amnon Samid, a CBDC expert
אביבית בנדר ממונה על הפיתוח העסקי התאגידי חטיבת החדשנות והאסטרטגיה בנק הפועלים

The 2008 crisis drove a wedge between banking and tech, the current crisis pushes them closer

26.10.21|Avivit Bender
"Banking is essential to the existence of society and trade as we know them, and it is changing rapidly through the progress of technology, adoption of new social values, rising of new competitors and, unfortunately, coping with global crises as well," writes Avivit Bender, Chief Corporate Development and Fintech Officer at Bank Hapoalim
FinTech Mobile

Financial consumerism gets personal in the digital age

03.10.21|CTech
As the world turns to digital – a process highlighted by Covid – increasingly more services and products are becoming personalized
גל בר דעה מנכל הבנק הדיגיטלי

“It’s like David going up against Goliath. The top three Israeli banks will change, and we’ll be part of it”

12.09.21|Diana Bahur-Nir
He pledges to pay higher interest on deposits and take lower interest on loans, and is certain that banking’s big bang is right around the corner. Gal Bar Dea, the CEO of First Digital Bank, is counting on people wanting to walk around in “I Love My Bank” T-shirts
Mor Eyal New Digital Bank

What need do we have for ‘Neo Banks’?

05.09.21|James Spiro
They’ve attracted the attention of everyone from Warren Buffet to Amnon Shashua - but why?
אמנון שעשוע מובילאיי

Israel's First Digital Bank to offer full digital banking services to US citizens

15.07.21|CTech
The banking system doesn’t currently make it possible for Israeli citizens who also hold a US citizenship or a foreign tax residency to open a bank account by digital means and they are forced to arrive at bank branches in order to physically sign a series of documents
כנס פינטק שוקי אורן יו"ר הבנק הדיגיטלי הראשון

"We won't be a free bank but we'll disrupt the existing order"

28.06.21|Almog Azar
Chairman of the First Digital Bank, Shuki Oren, said that it will launch its services towards the end of this year or in the first quarter of next year with the aim of making an immediate footprint
גל בר דעה מנכ"ל הבנק הדיגיטלי הראשון

Get ready to leave your old bank behind

22.06.21|Gal Bar Dea
“It is possible to be faster, stronger, smarter, and more efficient, and build the bank we have always been waiting for,” writes Gal Bar Dea, CEO of Israel’s First Digital Bank
מוסף שבועי 28.11.19 ניר צוק מנכל חברת פלאו אלדו ישראלי לשעבר

From cyber to banking: Palo Alto's Nir Zuk recruiting investors for new digital bank

03.05.21|Golan Hazani and Irit Avisar
Zuk has partnered with Shmuel Hauser, the former Chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, and entrepreneur Yuval Aloni, to set up what would be Israel's second digital bank to rival Mobileye founder Shashua's venture
שבוע גוגל יום שני מימין יואב שוהם לילך בר דוד יוני אסיא יובל קמינקא

There is a deep competitive advantage to Israel, since it’s very global, says eToro CEO Yoni Assia

27.04.21|Meir Orbach
CEO of the largest freelance bank in the U.S. Lilach Bar-David spoke during Calcalist and Google’s Startup Week. eToro CEO Yoni Assia explained the mass influx of private investors to digital investing platforms
Avi Benzvi FINASTRA

Israel’s Mizrahi-Tefahot Bank selects Finastra for cross-border payments

27.04.21|James Spiro
Fusion Payments To Go will help the bank enhance its customer experience
Tsafrir Attar Floor

The Floor appoints Tsafrir Attar as Chief Technology Officer

26.04.21|James Spiro
Attar will help propel the platform to its next stage of growth, expanding its global foothold
השקעה חיסכון כסף קופות גמל קרנות השתלמות קרן השתלמות

Fintech company Credit24 going public on TASE at a NIS 160 million valuation

18.04.21|Golan Hazani
The company will try to raise NIS 40-50 million in May, since its current credit portfolio of NIS 20 million is insufficient to process the credit requests it receives
סניף בנק בנקים תחרות ריכוזיות

Israel’s Open Banking Reform is tangled up in politics

05.04.21|Irit Avisar
New technologies and a different approach to client data could shake up the sector, but only if the politicians can get their act together
מנכ"ל ספיראל שון מלמד והנשיא דן בלומנפלד

Spiral secures $14 million in funding and debuts banking app for charity

31.03.21|CTech
Former Morgan Stanley and Skype execs co-founded the company with the aim to seamlessly combine banking and charitable giving
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