April 19, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform enabling some of the world’s most innovative embedded finance solutions, announced its new partner Rain, a financial wellness benefits provider that helps companies give employees greater control over their finances. Marqeta will power the Rain Card,… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Finzly has partnered with EverBank to enable a centralized payments process. EverBank is a nationwide specialty bank providing products and services to both consumer and commercial clients nationwide. Finzly supports banks, Fintechs, and other firms in offering financial services in a real-time ecosystem. Finzly claims… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 3:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AffiniPay, the enabler of online payments and software solutions for professionals, has announced the launch of its expansion into Puerto Rico for LawPay and CPACharge. With a strong presence established in the United States and Canada serving over 80,000 accounting and law firms, AffiniPay continues… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 1:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT), an industry enabler of  vertically integrated Bitcoin (BTC) mining, announced that it has successfully energized the substation at the Company’s Corsicana Facility. Jason Les, CEO of Riot said: “Two years ago, we purchased 265 acres of land in Navarro County,… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hitoshi, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Alpaca notes that Alpaca has transitioned to self-clearing at DTCC. As noted in a blog post, this is a key milestone since they started “a regulated brokerage business five years ago.” It’s a pivotal milestone for them because this… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced a planned collaboration with FICO (NYSE: FICO),  a analytics software company, to launch a cloud-based real-time payment fraud prevention solution powered by FICO Falcon Fraud Manager. The joint offering would leverage both firms’ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization platform Tokeny has integrated with Telos EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)> In a blog post, the digital security enabler said that by integrating Telos EVM, it will expand its reach for issuers to tokenize assets with while benefiting from Telos’ blockchain technology. The integration is… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mercury, the fintech that is said to be used “over 100,000” startups for banking, announced its expansion into consumer banking with the launch of Mercury Personal, which is described as a powerful personal banking experience designed with the best of today’s technology to help builders… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pliant, a business-to-business (B2B) credit card platform that allows businesses to optimize their payment processes, has recently announced the closing of more than €18 million in Series A extension financing, led by PayPal Ventures. Existing investors SBI Investment, Motive Ventures, and Alstin Capital “also participated… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), which claims to be one of the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners and a key player focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, announced the appointment of Manoj Narender Madnani as Managing Director for the EMEA Region, where… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech Wise (LSE:WISE) has shared key updates from January-March 2024. The Wise Q1 2024 update has released important highlights for the Fintech platform. Here’s a few highlights: Wise says it helped customers “save an estimated £447,518, 882 in Q1.” Wise further claims that it… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

British Patient Capital has reportedly made a £7m investment in Wagestream – a financial benefits provider – as part of a £17.5m funding round. The investment was alongside other co-investors “including Lombard Odier Investment Managers and existing investor, Northzone.” With investment from social impact funds… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DNA Payments has recently announced a key partnership in order to provide online retailers with high-performance, simple, unified payments by integrating DNA Payments’ acquiring and checkout solution with their E-commerce platform. DNA Payments’ feature-rich, customizable website checkout pages “offer easy integration with full technical support… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HighRadius, the provider of Autonomous Finance software for Order-to-Cash, Treasury, and Record-to-Report, announced the launch of their B2B payments platform to improve payment processes across 100+ payment methods globally. The comprehensive B2B payments platform “encompasses a trio of essential products: Payment Gateway, Surcharge Management, and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the launch of iCapital Marketplace, a one-stop-shop connecting wealth managers and advisors “with a broad menu of alternative investment opportunities across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real assets and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rene Siegl, Founder, Executive Chairman at IXOPAY, says that he’s pleased to share that IXOPAY and TokenEx are merging, beginning a new era in the optimization of global payment systems. According to Siegl, this merger combines IXOPAY’s payment orchestration solutions with TokenEx’s specialization in “the… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Varys Capital has partnered with FundRock Investment Management Services (ME) Ltd, a fund management company, licensed by the FSRA, to manage a feeder fund, Varys Capital Ventures (CEIC) Limited in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The feeder fund will invest its assets into a… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abra, a global platform for digital asset prime services and wealth management, today announced the launch of its integrated offering for institutions, Abra Prime, and private clients, Abra Private, following approval from the SEC for its subsidiary, Abra Capital Management LP (ACM), to operate as… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When it comes to buying investment properties millennials are not only the most active generation, but many are happy to go it alone, new data from CommBank has found. According to the data, 46 per cent of the banking institution’s new property investors in 2023… Read More