November 20, 2022 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xeni’s XeniPay solution launched recently on the Hedera Mainnet. XeniPay is designed “to help travel inventory consolidators, service providers, and online travel agencies reduce accounting, reconciliation, and settlement costs for B2B transactions.” Today, the travel industry is “plagued by a convoluted settlement process for B2B… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LMAX Group, the operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, is expanding its global technology infrastructure in Asia Pacific “following the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Singapore (SG1).” SG1, which went live earlier this year,… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) and HSBC Bank plc announced that the blockchain-based solution they are using for bilateral FX settlements is “expanding to include the offshore yuan (CNH).” The offshore yuan “marks the fifth currency to be settled between the two banks using… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 8:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm and accelerator of Binance, invested $4 million in Ultimate Champions, a Web3 sports game platform that will be “built on the BNB Chain.” Ultimate Champions will use the funds raised “to further develop its games, secure additional sports partnerships,… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ROX Equity Partners, a UK based private equity company, has acquired SilverBridge. The financial services technology provider “has become the first subsidiary in the newly established Alula Technologies group providing solutions to the insurance and health industries.” As an organization who has demonstrated its ability… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 7:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Flywire Corporation (Nasdaq: FLYW), a global payments enablement and software company, announced that it has partnered with HDFC Bank Limited, India’s largest private-sector bank, “to enable Indian payers to seamlessly and digitally pay international education fees to higher education institutions all over the world.” The… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Input Output Global, Inc. (IOG), one of the builders of Cardano, the proof of stake blockchain, has partnered with the University of Edinburgh, one of the “most highly rated” academic institutions in the United Kingdom, “to develop the blockchain industry’s first ‘decentralization index’.” The Edinburgh… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Acquisition Corp. V (NASDAQ:FTCV) says it will dissolve and liquidate following an inability to find a merger or acquisition. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) was created to find a Fintech to take public. At one point, the company had entered into an agreement… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

FTX Trading and the over 100 affiliated entities posted a release yesterday updating on the bankruptcy process. FTX filed for bankruptcy on November 11th following a run on the bank where the company was unable to fulfill redemption requests. It has been widely reported that… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addepar has shared the latest updates as they pertain to the Addepar platform, as well as key insights from their proprietary, “anonymized” and aggregated data set, along with highlights from their client community; and updates about their team at Addepar. In November, they’re taking a… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 5:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Securrency, a developer of institutional-grade, blockchain-based financial and regulatory technology, announced that it has received a United States patent for its Compliance Aware Token Framework (CATF). This framework is a critical step in Securrency’s four-phase vision that includes: Tokenizing financial assets at scale Interconnecting global… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 5:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Daylight, which claims to be the “first” and “only” digital bank designed to build the financial products and services to help queer people live their best lives, announced $15 million in new financing led by Anthemis Group, “with participation from CMFG Ventures, Kapor Capital, Citi… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Autumn Statement delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, last week included some grim news – including the declaration that the UK economy is in a recession. Fiscal sobriety was the message, a sharp turn from the mini-budget under Truss that caused… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) published a new standard designed “to support the evolution of mobile payment acceptance solutions.” PCI Mobile Payments on COTS (MPoC) “builds on the existing PCI Software-based PIN Entry on COTS (SPoC) and PCI Contactless Payments on COTS (CPoC)… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galileo Financial Technologies, LLC, a financial technology company owned and operated independently by SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), announced that its API-enabled financial technology powers Pomelo, a new charge card that “allows families in the U.S. to build and extend their credit access abroad without… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial center located in UAE’s capital emirate announced a partnership with Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ:RXT), in order “to collaborate on a number of strategic technology initiatives.” As a long standing global leading service provider in multi-cloud computing, technology advisory… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority has publicly censured Mohammad Ataur Rahman Prodhan, the former Chief Executive Officer of Sonali Bank (UK) Limited (SBUK) “for anti-money laundering (AML) failings.” Prodhan was “the senior manager at SBUK with responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of effective AML systems… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 11 November 2022 “to jointly develop integrated and digital financial ecosystems for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from least developed countries (LDCs).” The… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, the cloud-based payments service provider, unveils its expansion into Israel and a strengthening of its commitment to the region “with the launch of a research and development hub in Tel Aviv, Israel.” The launch of a new office in Israel is “a continuation of… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank Indonesia (BI), Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and Bank of Thailand (BOT) have agreed “to strengthen and enhance cooperation on payment connectivity to support faster, cheaper, more transparent, and more inclusive cross-border payments.” A Memorandum… Read More