Trent Sorbe from FIBT Shares Insights on Regulatory Shortcomings of Banking as a Service (BaaS)

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  Trent Sorbe, Chief Payments Officer at First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), has shared key insights with CI. Kotapay, a division of First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), has launched Kavinu, a direct-to-bank BaaS platform that eliminates the “instability of middleware-reliant models.” By re-centering… Read More

 

 




Experian Enhances Identity and Activation Capabilities with Acquisition of Audigent

Experian ā€” the data and technology company ā€” announced it has acquired Audigent, a data activation and identity platform in the advertising industry. The acquisition reportedly expands Experianā€™s integrated marketing data and identity capabilities in the advertising ecosystem. With the addition of Audigentā€™s combined first-party… Read More

Keyblock Solutions and SlowMist to Enhance Digital Asset Compliance

Keyblock Solutions has announced a partnership with SlowMistā€™s AML product, MistTrack. By integrating MistTrackā€™s Know Your Transaction (KYT) solution, Keyblock aims to enhance its clientsā€™ digital asset fund compliance governance, providing them with more “efficient and reliable compliance support.” This collaboration marks a step forward… Read More

Insurtech CyberCube Teams Up with Insurance Broker HUB International

CyberCubeĀ announced a partnership with HUB International (HUB), aĀ  full-service global insurance broker and financial services firm. With the expanded partnership, HUB will now reportedly have the option to leverage CyberCubeā€™s software and services in order to “deliver cyber risk analytics” to its clients across the… Read More

Intuit and Global Fintech Adyen to Help SMBs Get Paid Faster

Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU), the financial technology platform behind TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, announced a collaboration with AdyenĀ (ADYEN:AMS), the fintech for businesses, to help small and mid-market businesses (SMBs) easily manage electronic payments. The companies will integrate Adyen‘s embedded payment services into Intuitā€™s… Read More

World Network Continues to Scale, Providing Mini Apps Devs with On-Chain, Verifiable Human Audience

World Network claims that it is scaling steadily, and its growth is having a considerable impact on the “success” of Mini Apps developers. Launches in countries like Brazil have seen global World ID verifications “top 8 million” (8,590,580 as of this writing), while the launch… Read More

Entrust Onfido Identify Verification Selected By PetProov to Enhance Transparency

Entrust, a global enabler of trusted payments, identities, and data security, announces a partnership with PetProov, an online platform that verifies pet buyers, breeders, and adopters. The collab will equip the PetProov platform with the Entrust Onfido identity verification (IDV) to bring “transparency, accountability, and… Read More

Digital Banking: Alkami Enhances Behavioral Data Tag Capabilities to Provide Improved UX

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT), a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the U.S., announced the latest innovation in its Data & Marketing Solutions platform. With this enhancement, Alkami has strengthened its behavioral data tag suite to empower financial institutions with deeper… Read More

Global Fintech Plaid Is Seeing Renewed Interest in Businesses Expanding Across US and Europe

At Plaid, theyā€™re seeing a renewed interest in businesses expanding into Europe from the United States and from the US into Europe, as “demand for online finance continues to grow.” Nearly nine in ten consumers use fintech tools, according to Plaidā€™s The Fintech Effect report,… Read More

Singapore’s TemasekĀ Announces Formation of Private Credit Platform

Singapore’s TemasekĀ announced the formation of a wholly-owned private credit platform. Temasek explained that it has been investing in credit funds for more than 10 years, the announcement noted. In 2016, Temasek assembled a credit & hybrid solutions team to buildout its direct and fund investments… Read More

Political Instability to Drive Bitcoin North of $120K: Green

Political turbulence in Europe and Asia is driving renewed focus on decentralized, non-government-backed currencies like Bitcoin. That is one reason why deVere Group CEO Nigel Green sees the cryptocurrencyā€™s value topping $120,000 in the coming months. Green made the comments in the wake of a… Read More




Blockchain, Tokenized Crypto Firms Represent 1 in 6 Unicorns

Blockchain Coinvestors, a blockchain venture fund-of-funds and co-investment program with a combined portfolio of more than 1,250 such enterprises and projects (including more than 110 blockchain unicorns) this week unveiled its bi-annual Meet the Blockchain Unicorns, a comprehensive list of unicorns ā€“ including private enterprises… Read More

Majority of US Workers Face Serious Financial Anxieties – Betterment at Work Research Study

Betterment at Work, a provider of modern, scalable 401(k)s for growing businesses, released the fourth installment of its annual survey on the state of retirement readiness and financial benefits across the U.S. workforce. Betterment’s 2024 Retirement Readiness Report, which examines data from 1,000 full-time U.S…. Read More

Crypto Tech Firm MatterFi Launches Security-Focused Platform

This week, MatterFi, a foundational layer designed for financial services to build into the crypto ecosystem, has officially launched its enterprise-ready platform. The move follows a successful six-month beta phase. Phishing in Web3 is at an all-time high. In 2024, phishing attacks surged by 150%…. Read More

PrimaryBid Reportedly Unlocks Ā£125M of Retail Capital to UK Treasury Bills

PrimaryBid, the capital markets technology platform, has facilitated the placing of over Ā£125 million of new investor capital into UK Treasury Bills since launching its Retail Eligible Debt Capital Market Service earlier in 2024. This marks an evolution in UK investor access to products that… Read More

SoFi Expands Access to Alts via Templum Partnership

SoFiĀ (NASDAQ: SOFI), a firm focused on digital financial services that helps members borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money, announced access to new private market funds via a relationship with Templum, which operates Templum One, a platform for transacting in private alternatives: The Cosmos… Read More

Dutch Crowdfunding Platforms Commit to Fee Transparency After ACM Intervention

Seven crowdfunding and donation platforms in the Netherlands have agreed to provide clearer information about the fees they charge, following action by the Dutch consumer authority ACM. The platformsā€”Doneeractie, Doneerveilig, Geef.nl, Getfunded, GoFundMe, Steunactie, and Whydonateā€”will improve transparency around deductions, including value-added tax (VAT), to… Read More

Anchorage Digital Says It’s First US Federally Chartered Bank to Offer Institutions Access to Liquid Staking Token

Anchorage Digital is pleased to announce support for Liquid Collectiveā€™s Liquid Staked ETH (LsETH), providing institutions with a way to participate in ETH staking while maintaining access to liquidity. Institutionsā€”including VC firms, wealth and asset managers, protocols, and othersā€”can participate in liquid staking using ETH… Read More

Digital Securities Exchange Archax Partners with XDC Network

Archax, the UKā€™s FCA regulated digital securities exchange, broker and custodian, announced a new partnership with XDC Network, an enterprise-grade Layer-1 EVM-compatible blockchain. The firms will combine the power of a regulated digital asset platform withĀ  blockchain solutions to enable FIs to access tokenized real-world… Read More

Capital Ideas: Jim Row, Founder and Managing Partner of Entoro Capital

In the latest episode of Capital Ideas, hosts Nick Morgan and Dara Albright of the Investor Choice Advocates Network (ICAN) sat down with Jim Row, founder and managing partner of Entoro, a technology-enabled investment bank specializing in alternative assets. During the discussion, Row shared his… Read More

Swiss Private Bank Bergos AG and Sygnum Bank to Enhance Digital Asset Custody

Bergos, the independent Swiss Private Bank, is pleased to announce its partnership with Sygnum Bank, a global banking group for digital assets. This collaboration provides the Zurich-based Private Bankā€™s clients withĀ  access to “regulated trading and secure custody of cryptocurrencies.” The range of tradable cryptocurrencies… Read More

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