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There Banking Technology Contact Jon Robson Tel: +44 203 377 3327 | Email: [email protected] July/August 2018 | www.bankingtech.com | 03 NEWS NEWS R3 hits back at Alior, solarisBank, Raisin and UK challenger bank Project Lemonade takes financial woe Mastercard unveil European bank Imagine preps for launch wefox to court for IP story Poland’s Alior Bank has teamed with a focus on the German market during the A new London-based challenger bank is struggling to maintain a momentum, so infringement solarisBank, Raisin and Mastercard to first phase of the project. gearing up for launch in the UK, called their market share is considered by many Enterprise blockchain software firm R3 is unleash a pan-European digital bank. Daniel Daszkiewicz, head of fintech at Project Imagine. Self-defined as a “second not big enough to present a threat to New York-based insurance platform fighting back against a news article that The new offering, which is planned to be Alior Bank, says: “For example, a customer generation digital bank”, it also aims to be traditional high street banks. Lemonade has filed a lawsuit against German claimed it was running out of money. launched in the fourth quarter of 2018, will be in Germany, while opening an account a wealth management alternative from the “We want to be a mix of Monzo, Nutmeg company ONE Insurance, its parent company David E. Rutter, CEO of R3, says: “Last built on the “strengths of all partners”. with solarisBank, will instantaneously gain get-go. and Moneybox, all in one, which means wefox, and founder Julian Teicke. week a negative and inaccurate news Alior Bank will deliver multicurrency access to a multicurrency account with On its site, it claims to provide a digital current account, savings and The complaint was filed in the US article about R3 was published. We accounts with international transfers and Alior Bank and to Raisin’s savings products.” “accessible financial future for all”, and that investment all in one, with heavy focus on District Court Southern District of NY, were saddened that any of our previous deposits. He adds that with Mastercard, is “built on a keen interest in people and personal finance management (PFM),” the and it claims that ONE was the product of employees saw fit to spread false, malicious solarisBank will add the banking customers will be able to buy additional their behaviour, not numbers and stats”. CEO tells Banking Technology. “We want to reverse-engineering by wefox. rumours about the company, and were infrastructure with its technological, value-added services. The bank says it will combine original encourage savings and money management, Lemonade claims wefox is “infringing very disappointed that unsubstantiated compliance and regulatory framework. According to solarisBank, the open API finance and tech solutions to help people and help people get out of the overdraft/ Lemonade’s intellectual property, figures and comments were taken seriously Raisin through its network of partner platform will use the opportunities from save and grow their money, rather than over-spending loop – hence we will offer violating the Computer Fraud and by a reporter, who then subsequently banks, is adding various savings and the EU directive PSD2 and open banking. just enhance usability. 3.14% in deposits from the start.” Abuse Act, and breaching its contractual chose to ignore our factual response.” investment possibilities to the offering. While they have unveiled a joint website The bank is led and was founded by According to the CEO, the bank will obligations to Lemonade not to ‘copy According to Fortune, former employees Mastercard’s benefit optimisation for this development, solarisBank tells Aritra Chakravarty, who comes from launch in Q4 this year with an e-money content… to provide any service that is of R3 are claiming a recent fundraise of $15 programme will be used to offer additional Banking Technology the name of the bank HSBC, where he worked in mergers and licence, and will be looking to acquire a competitive… or to… create derivative million fell far short of what was needed for it services for the customers. The product has not been disclosed yet. acquisition, wealth and private branches, banking licence some time in 2020.