March 28, 2023 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

Shares in Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) to a bit of a bruising today on the news that Apple had finally released its buy now pay later service (BNPL) into the wild for selected borrowers. At the close of the market, Affirm had lost over 7% but had… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 2:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

Worthy Financial, an investment platform that offers securities under Reg A+, says that it has increased the yield on its bonds to 5.5% or 5.65% as of April 1, 2023. The company offers  Worthy Property Bonds, an SEC-qualified real-estate-backed debt product that is available to… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mendix, a Siemens business and global leader in modern enterprise application development, announced that Socotra, a provider of end-to-end insurance IT solutions, is now a Mendix independent software vendor (ISV). The Mendix ISV Program is “available for partners across all industries to expand their businesses… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 1:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Apple’s buy now – pay later service (BNPL) is finally available. Apple Pay Later was announced quite some time ago – but then Apple tends to make certain everything is perfect (or nearly) before launching anything. In a release, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) said that starting today,… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 12:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Spiral has raised $28 million in Series A funding, according to a statement by the Fintech, bringing the total to date to $42 million. Spiral is a company that offers “impact as a service,” allowing banks, Fintechs, etc., to embed ESG or impact offerings on… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) reveals that it has supported the financial inclusion of 5.7 million Brazilians in the credit card market in one year, according to a study released by Data Nubank – the company’s research and analysis platform on finances. The survey analyzed “the spending… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

This past week, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission filed an enforcement action against Binance and its founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ). The lawsuit comes as no surprise to industry followers as Binance is the largest crypto exchange globally and represents a fat target for regulators. The… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Today, the US Senate Banking Committee will meet to discuss the recent calamitous events in the banking sector. Multiple banks have experienced bank runs, and several have been taken over as these firms fell prey to poor management in regard to interest rate risk, and… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New research— recently published by Oxford Economics and in partnership with Funding Circle (LSE:FCH), including a detailed survey of Funding Circle customers—reveals UK SMEs’ durability, with 58% of respondents “saying their experience of dealing with the pandemic’s challenges has made their business more resilient.” Over… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, and Central Payments L.L.C., a banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider, are enabling fintechs, enterprise businesses and payment facilitators “to bring financial products and services to market with greater speed and growth potential.” The… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Estateguru, the Pan-European property investment platform, and the Czech investment bank J&T Banka have made an agreement “to fund real estate-backed loans in the Baltics.” J&T Banka initially “invested €2.5M in Finnish and German loans as part of its continued commitment to funding Estateguru loan… Read More

March 28, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares, Europe’s digital asset investment firm, is announcing the launch of two  zero management fee Crypto Index ETPs: CoinShares Physical Top 10 Crypto Market ETP & CoinShares Physical Smart Contract Platform ETP. These two products will be “listed on German’s main market Xetra.” Both ETPs… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 11:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FinGoal, an insights platform focused on personalization in banking, announced the closing of an investment round led by Naples Technology Ventures. Personalization, particularly in the financial industry, “is more important than ever as institutions seek to do more with the customers they already have.” FinGoal’s… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Strike, which claims to be the world’s leading digital payments platform built on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network, announced the launch of fast, secure, and low-cost money transfers from the U.S. to Vietnam, “further expanding its revolutionary cross-border payment service.” Strike has partnered with Getbit “to enable… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ohmyhome Limited (Nasdaq: OMH), a data-driven property technology company based in Singapore, recently announced “the closing of its initial public offering of 3,775,000 ordinary shares at a price of $4.00 per share.” The offering “consisted of 2,800,000 ordinary shares issued and sold by Ohmyhome and… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Dr. Amrit Kumar, COO at Altlayer, which focuses on building key infrastructure for Web 3.0, an evolving set of standards that aims to support the Internet of the future. Dr. Amrit Kumar (currently at Altlayer) previously co-founded Zilliqa Research, where he… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As April 18 looms,  banks are turning to tech to help customers ease their tax anxiety, according to an update from J.D. Power. It’s been an “arduous” year for banking customers in the United States, the report noted. Between historically high inflation and wading through… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Huobi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Copper. Huobi is in discussions to join Copper’s ClearLoop Network, “making it the fifth exchange to join since January 2023.” Five of the top ten global crypto exchanges have “either integrated or are working towards integrating… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 6:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Birchal, long the leading online capital formation platform in Australia, reports that during its fiscal Q3 2023 quarter it dominated the “crowd-sourced funding” market in the country. Birchal says that it captured 100% market share during the quarter to date, making it the only Australian… Read More

March 27, 2023 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledge, an automated, no-code finance operations platform, announced the launch of its new multi-bank management solution that’s designed “to help finance teams easily and nimbly manage cash balances across multiple bank accounts in real-time as executives put a renewed focus on treasury management.” Since the… Read More