Prometeo’s Ximena Aleman on Open Banking and Latin American Innovation

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As Open Banking becomes more popular in Latin America, Prometeo is well-positioned to be a major player in the space. Prometeo’s partners, a provider of a single API connecting businesses to every bank in 11 countries, include Santander, Bancolombia, Banco de México, and Chile’s Banco… Read More

 

 




Alpha Capital Family Office for HNWIs Launches intelliflo redblack

intelliflo announced that Alpha Capital Family Office has completed a successful implementation of intelliflo redblack to support the RIA’s ongoing growth and momentum. While implementations are typically a time consuming process, Alpha Capital and intelliflo redblack have “completed the project with speed, efficiency and confidence.”… Read More

Affirm Shares Jump Following Solid Beat for Fiscal Q2 2025

Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM) shares are moving higher following Q2 earnings results which ended on December 31, 2024. Yesterday, the Fintech reported revenue of $866 million, an increase of 47% versus the same quarter year prior and net income of $80 million a $247 million improvement. The… Read More

Trustly and Spreedly to Enable Pay by Bank via Open Payments Platform

Trustly, a provider focused on Pay by Bank services, says it will partner with Spreedly, a payments platform. Trustly and Spreedly expect to provide merchants with full-service access to Pay by Bank to drive improved conversion rates and “optimize payment efficiency across expanded regional and global… Read More

Fintech AstroPay Obtains Payment Institution License for Multicurrency Wallet in Brazil

AstroPay, a global enabler of digital financial solutions, says that it is redefining financial connectivity in Brazil with its expansion and acquiring a  Payment Institution (PI) license issued by the Central Bank of Brazil. This license is from the Central Bank of Brazil, underscoring AstroPay’s… Read More

More Businesses Adding Non-Cash Surcharges: J.D. Power

According to a new J.D. Power report, more small business owners apply surcharges to customer purchases when using debit and credit cards, digital wallets, BNPL and cryptocurrency. The J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Merchant Services Satisfaction Study found that 34% of merchants are adding fees for… Read More

Digital Asset Firm Hex Trust Recieves Funding from Morgan Creek in Advance of Series C Round

Digital asset firm Hex Trust has received “strategic” funding from Morgan Creek Digital in advance of a forthcoming Series C funding round. Other investors were said to also have participated in the funding. Hex did not disclose the details of the investment but shared that… Read More

Acting CFTC Chair Pham Issues Statement Defending Against Bloomberg Claims

Acting Commodities Futures and Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Caroline Pham has issued a statement defending herself against claims made in a Bloomberg article. Pham was appointed Acting Chair as the Trump Administration took over the federal bureaucracy. In the minority during the Biden Administration, now… Read More

martini.ai Launches Agentic AI Company Research to Provide Credit Insights

martini.ai, a provider of AI-driven credit analytics, announced the launch of Agentic AI Company Research, a solution that empowers businesses with comprehensive, real-time insights into individual companies’ credit profiles. By merging credit spread data with corporate information, this feature reportedly “provides decision-makers — including those… Read More

Diyan Bogdanov of Payhawk Shares Perspective on EU AI Act

The EU AI provisions reportedly went into force on 2 February, 2025. Diyan Bogdanov, Director of Engineering Intelligence & Growth at Payhawk, the global spend management solution and Bulgaria’s “first” unicorn, explains that the EU AI Act isn’t “just another compliance burden — it’s a… Read More

UK Consumers Increasingly Moving Towards Fintechs and Neobanks for Primary Bank Cards – Report

Digital-only financial providers (such as neobanking platforms like Monzo, Starling Bank and Revolut as well as fintechs like Klarna), expanded their overall reach from 16% of adults back in 2018 to a significant 50% in 2024 according to research from RFI Global, the data and… Read More




Global Fintech Platform Fiserv Selected By FirstRand Group to Enable Growth

Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE: FI), a provider of payments and financial services tech, announced the FirstRand Group will become the “first” financial institution outside of the U.S. to commission Finxact from Fiserv — the ­cloud-native, real-time banking solution that offers enhanced access to data — to… Read More

BNPL Fintech Affirm Shares Insights on Buy Now Pay Later Users

Katherine Adkins, Chief Legal Officer at BNPL Fintech firm Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) noted that consumer spending is like the engine that drives the American economy, accounting for about 70% of US GDP by most estimates. Katherine Adkins of Affirm also mentioned that if spending is… Read More

Securities Lending Fintech Sharegain Now Live on Pirum TradeConnect

Pirum, the tech partner for securities finance automation and collateral management, announced that Sharegain, a securities lending fintech, has gone live on Pirum TradeConnect. Stuart Jarvis, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Sharegain, said: “Pirum TradeConnect delivers the simplicity and efficiency the market has been waiting… Read More

Singapore Banks Struggle with Client Exodus Amid Record High KYC Failures – Report

Singapore’s banking industry is facing an “unprecedented” challenge as the number of clients abandoning banks due to “slow and inefficient onboarding practices” has surged to record levels, according to research from Fenergo, a global firm focused on client lifecycle management (CLM), Know your Customer (KYC)… Read More

Openbank by Santander Reaches $2B in Deposits in the US

Santander Bank, N.A. (NYSE: SAN) announced that the Openbank digital bank platform topped $2 billion in total deposits since going to market in the United States in the fourth quarter of 2024. This achievement is said to represent a key milestone in the Santander US… Read More

iCapital Launches Portfolio Construction Solutions to Simplify Alternative Investment Integration for Wealth Investors

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving the alternative investment marketplace for the wealth and asset management industries, announced a series of enhancements to its portfolio construction tool, iCapital Architect. The toolkit arms financial advisors with education and analytics and also provides the iCapital Architect technology… Read More

CFTC Acting Chair Disavows Regulation by Enforcement, Will Now Focus on Fraud

Acting CFTC Chairman Caroline D. Pham says there will be no more “regulation by enforcement.” This term has been widely utilized to describe regulatory activity in financial services during the Biden Administration. More specifically, the rise of digital assets created policy hysteria with the government…. Read More

Crypto Market Report: Spot ETFs and Analytics Platforms are Improving Trading, Investing Experience

As part of Gemini’s mission to offer “trusted” information to institutional and retail investors, they have released a crypto trends report, “2025 Trends: Data-Driven Insights Into the Crypto Market,” in collaboration with Glassnode, an analytics firm specializing in on-chain assets. Gemini states that the report… Read More

FDIC Release Documents Related to Crypto Related Actions

This week, Congress is busy holding hearings on Debanking and other nefarious actions taken by federal regulators targeting the digital asset sector during the Biden Administration. Crypto firms have struggled in the US to gain regulatory clarity from the government, which sought to undermine crypto… Read More

Malware Report: Crypto Stealing Trojan Discovered by Kaspersky in AppStore and Google Play

Kaspersky Threat Research expertise center has discovered a new data-stealing Trojan, SparkCat, active in AppStore and Google Play since at least March 2024. This is said to be the “first known instance” of optical recognition-based malware appearing in AppStore. Kaspersky said they found comments in… Read More