The enhanced banking application empowers community banks and credit unions to remain competitive, offering a seamless user experience across multiple platforms and new features for account holders  

LAKE MARY, Fla., April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Today at Ignite! 2024, Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, announced the availability of its latest mobile banking software, Next Gen Mobile Banking, a new digital banking experience for community banks and credit unions. The advanced mobile banking application provides a seamless user experience, offering financial institutions customization options and enhanced security features.

This comes as community financial institutions strive to maintain and grow market share in a competitive and consolidating landscape, which requires cutting-edge mobile banking offerings – particularly when it comes to obtaining the rising generations of account holders. With Next Gen Mobile Banking, Finastra empowers community banks and credit unions with features likely to appeal to customers and members of all ages, such as the app’s built-in personal financial management tools, with which financial institutions can offer account holders easy access to budget planners and more.

“Climate First Bank is a unique and digitally-driven financial institution, which means we need the right tools to support our growth and to give our customers the digital experience they expect and deserve,” said Marcio de Oliveira, executive vice president, chief technology and digital banking officer at Climate First Bank. “This new app enables us to provide a seamless, personalized, and easy to use mobile banking experience that supports our vision of reimagining finance as a force for good. We’re grateful to be an early adopter of Finastra’s new solution, and we look forward to working with our customers across both personal and business segments to take advantage of everything it has to offer.” 

As bad actors become increasingly sophisticated, preventing fraudulent activity is only more pressing for community financial institutions today. Next Gen Mobile Banking provides banks and credit unions with enhanced security features like Passkey Authentication, which offers seamless and robust protection against phishing and other threats. The expanded authentication method means that credentials cannot be guessed, intercepted, or reused, strengthening the overall security for the user. User Trusted Device Management is also enabled in the application, which offers account holders transparency and trust while mitigating unauthorized access to personal information.

“Finastra has delivered sophisticated digital experiences for many years, and this enhancement marks our commitment to creating solutions that provide community banks and credit unions with the features and security needed to help them stay ahead of the competition,” said Narendra Mistry, chief product and technology officer, Universal Banking at Finastra.”With Next Gen Mobile Banking, our customers can deliver an innovative and sophisticated user experience that is tailored to the unique needs of the communities they serve.”  

Other key features of Next Gen Mobile Banking include:

• Recognizing that each financial institution in the United States is unique, the solution offers a selection of interface templates, providing each institution with the power to personalize the mobile experience and to tailor the application to their specific needs.
• The solution was developed cross-platform, allowing for faster development cycles and easier deployment across different mobile operating systems.
• Since the application is built using a single codebase, a seamless user interface is available across both iOS and Android devices, enabling a consistent brand identity and customer experience for account holders. The unified code base also allows for rapid updates, enabling financial institutions to deliver the latest enhancements and features quickly and efficiently.

Next Gen Mobile Banking is now deployed for financial institutions participating in Finastra’s pilot program. The application is expected to be available for all Finastra Phoenix consumer banking customers in mid-2024.

About Finastra

Finastra is a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, and launched the leading open platform for innovation, FusionFabric.cloud, in 2017. It serves institutions of all sizes, providing award-winning software solutions and services across Lending, Payments,Treasury & Capital Markets and Universal Banking (Retail, Digital and Commercial Banking) for banks to support direct banking relationships and grow through indirect channels, such as embedded finance and Banking as a Service. Its pioneering approach and commitment to open finance and collaboration is why it is trusted by over 8,000 institutions, including 45 of the world’s top 50 banks.
For more information, visit finastra.com

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LONDON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — As inflation continues to unwind the world economy, traders are urgently looking for safe places to park their hard-earned assets. Traditional asset classes such as equities and bonds are starting to show vulnerability, leading many to look towards alternative investments. This is where InternationalReserve steps into the spotlight, delivering a compelling solution: cryptocurrencies, specifically through Contract for Difference (CFD) products.

“Inflation is a major concern for traders right now,” says Antonio Allegro, Chief Investment Officer at InternationalReserve. “Traditional assets tend to struggle during these periods, but this is not the case with cryptocurrencies.”

The allure of crypto CFDs

While not risk-free, certain digital assets have the potential to offer a hedge against rising prices. Bitcoin, for instance, has a fixed supply, unlike traditional fiat currencies that can be printed endlessly by governments, which ends up causing inflation. This scarcity could cause the value of Bitcoin to go up over time, thus making it an appealing store of value.

However, directly investing in cryptocurrencies could be a daunting task and requires managing private keys and digital wallets. In this climate, InternationalReserve’s innovative CFD products have a distinct advantage over others.

“Our CFDs allow traders and investors an opportunity to gain exposure to the price movements of cryptocurrencies without owning the underlying assets,” explains Antonio Allegro. “This means they can benefit from potential price rises without the hassle of safeguarding private keys or worrying about exchange security.”

With a trading platform that has a user-friendly interface, InternationalReserve enables investors of all experience levels to embark on the crypto market. CFDs provide leverage, which can magnify potential returns and also losses. Additionally, traders can go long or short on cryptos, letting them profit from both rising and falling prices.

About InternationalReserve

InternationalReserve is a leading CFD trading broker that empowers traders to navigate the dynamic and ever-changing landscape of global financial markets. They offer a comprehensive suite of markets, including forex, crypto, stocks, indices, and commodities, all with low spreads and fast execution. With a commitment to providing a seamless trading experience, their team of seasoned professionals in this field powers a simple yet powerful trading platform with numerous trading tools packed under the hood. Beyond just performing trades, the brand offers a library of materials covering different aspects of trading to help traders enhance their trading knowledge and skills.

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• The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions SPARK Matrix™ provides competitive analysis & ranking of the Cloud-Native Application Development Services (CNADS) vendors.  
• Sopra Steria, with its comprehensive technology for Cloud-Native Application Development Services, has received strong ratings across the parameters of technology excellence and customer impact.

PARIS, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sopra Steria and Quadrant Knowledge Solutions announced today that Sopra Steria has been named as a leader in the Q1 2024 SPARK Matrix^TM analysis of the global CNADS market.

The Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ SPARK Matrix™: Cloud-Native Application Development Services, includes a detailed analysis of global market dynamics, major trends, vendor landscape, and competitive positioning. The study provides competitive analysis and ranking of the leading technology vendors in the form of its SPARK Matrix™. The study offers strategic information for users to evaluate different provider capabilities, competitive differentiation, and market position.

According to Sitaparna Roy, Analyst at Quadrant Knowledge Solutions, “Sopra Steria through its Modern Apps Development Services helps organizations to convert their ideas into Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and monitor all the development stages to production with unparalleled speed, efficiency, and productivity. It facilitates this by offering Enterprise Architect Services, Low- code/ No-code services and Cloud-Native Application development Services in its Modern Apps Development Services portfolio. […] It supports innovation through adoption of the latest technologies and tools for generating new ideas for products, services, and tools. Sopra Steria’s unique ‘BizDevSecOps’ approach for end-to-end digital transformation supports effective communication and collaboration between businesses and team operations throughout the software development life cycle.”

“Sopra Steria is proud to be recognized once again as a leader in Cloud-Native Application Development Services by Quadrant Knowledge Solutions. Our commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and excellence in service delivery has enabled us to maintain this position for the third consecutive year. We believe that our comprehensive approach to modern application development, supported by our Cloud Center of Excellence and Ingine Platform, empowers organizations to achieve their digital transformation goals efficiently and effectively.”, comments Yann Gloriau, Cloud expert at Sopra Steria.

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