September 27, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced the expansion of its relationship with Amazon to Canada, bringing “increased payment flexibility and transparency to customers shopping on Amazon.ca.” This payment option will be “available during checkout to all… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 4:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Nexo, a digital asset firm that describes itself as the “world’s leading regulated institution for digital assets,” has acquired an ownership stake in Hulett Bancorp (DBA Mode Eleven), the parent company of Summit National Bank. Summit National Bank is a federally chartered financial institution. Terms… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Galaxy, which claims to be one of the industry-leading financial innovation companies, has announced the addition of a team of global Open Banking/Finance experts “as it looks to ramp up its product offering and presence across the MENA region.” Appointments reportedly “include Salt Edge’s… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 3:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS (SGX:D05) recently announced that it has rolled out self-directed crypto trading via DBS digibank, enabling wealth clients who are accredited investors “to trade cryptocurrencies on DDEx at their convenience.” This latest move “provides more seamless and hassle-free access to DDEx, one of the world’s… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 2:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Classiq, which claims to be the leader in quantum computing software, announced another significant expansion of its series B round to $49M by Canadian-Israeli VC Awz Ventures, from “an initial closing of $36M by strategic investors—in the largest quantum software round to date.” Awz Ventures… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Nexo, a large digital asset platform. James is joining 7 other states in pursuing the crypto firm. New Y0rk is being joined in the action by the following states: California, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington, and Vermont…. Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) reached the mark of 70 million customers in Latin America, “with 66.4 million users in the Brazilian operation, 3.2 million in Mexico, and more than 400 thousand in Colombia.” The company, the fifth largest financial institution in Brazil in number of customers,… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 12:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC) announced it has acquired Linga, a point of sale (POS) and payments solutions firm “providing an industry-leading, cloud-based restaurant operating system.” The acquisition of Linga and its technology “will further expand PNC’s digital resources and enhance the… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

In a brief corporate statement, Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, has resigned from the firm, effective immediately. Celsius is one of the crypto firms that grew rapidly providing incredible returns to investors via its crypto lending/yield platform, only to collapse in the… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

BR-DGE , a merchants payments provider that aims to offer a simple and affordable “payment orchestration platform,” has announced a partnership with Vyne. Vyne uses Open Banking to enable account-to-account payments for online businesses. In a company statement, BR-DGE explained that the partnership with Vyne… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

TokenScript, a project created by  Smart Token Labs, is reporting a funding round of $6 million at a pre-money valuation of $200 million, according to a company statement. TokenSoft is raising the growth capital in a SAFT that has the support of some well-known names,… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuapay‘s innovative and “fully customizable” open banking and real-time account-to-account payment capabilities will “give Pay360‘s customers access to cutting-edge payment technologies across all of its gateway connections.” Pay360 claims it is “a market leader for public sector payments – used by more than 60% of… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 7:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Voyager Digital Ltd. (FRA: UCD2) announced that “after multiple rounds of bidding in a highly competitive auction process that lasted two weeks, its operating company Voyager Digital LLC, selected West Realm Shires Inc. (FTX US) as the highest and best bid for its assets.” The… Read More

September 27, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aviva, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading insurers, announced an investment of $10 million into the Anthemis Female Innovators Lab Fund. The fund was “founded in September 2019 and backs female entrepreneurs in the fintech industry across the UK, Europe, Canada and… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) said this past Wednesday that it will “begin the pilot launch of crypto-rial as the bank’s digital currency as of Thursday.” The CBI has said that “the aim of designing the crypto-rial is to turn banknotes into a programmable… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 11:00 pm By Barry James  |  

It’s Time for a Safe Pair of Hands – Before It’s Too Late The first thing that Kwasi Kwarteng did as Chancellor injected so much risk into the British economy that the investors he was seeking to attract had, quite predictably, the opposite reaction. Any… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 10:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Everimpact are partnering with STACS, a Singapore-based ESG fintech “to provide banks and corporates involved in the carbon market with greater trust and transparency.” Their partnership will “promote data-backed carbon credits with end-to-end traceability.” In the first phase of the project, Everimpact’s Digital carbon tracking… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 9:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CIMB Group Holdings Berhad strengthened its sustainability commitment by doubling its sustainable finance target to RM60 billion by 2024 “under the Group’s Green, Social, Sustainable Impact Products and Services (GSSIPS) Framework.” The increased target was announced during the opening of CIMB’s flagship The Cooler Earth… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB), Southeast Asia’s superapp, announced that it has promoted Suthen Thomas Paradatheth to Group Chief Technology Officer (GCTO), “effective October 1, 2022.” As Grab’s GCTO, Suthen will be “responsible for driving Grab’s technology vision, strategy and execution across its Deliveries, Mobility,… Read More

September 26, 2022 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pan-Asian venture capital firm Gobi Partners announced the closing of its $10 million Gobi SuperSeed II (Gobi SSII) Fund “following the participation of Allianz Malaysia Berhad (Allianz Malaysia) as a Limited Partner (LP).” Other LPs backing the Gobi SSII Fund “are institutional investors Malaysia Venture… Read More