September 19, 2024 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

 Capchase, a provider of revenue acceleration solutions for SaaS, is announcing a strategic partnership with Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. This partnership makes Capchase’s buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) solution “available within Stripe.” This marks Stripe’s first-ever B2B BNPL payment method “offering in the U.S. market.”… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Oracle announced Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance (FCCM) Management Monitor Cloud Service. With the new solution banks, fintechs, and other financial services companies can “gain a holistic, centralized view of their FCCM efforts, enabling them to identify potential issues faster and, proactively manage risk to… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the B2B digital assets infrastructure, has launched a new out-of-box feature that enables crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) active in the European Union (EU) to comply with the upcoming sustainability requirements of the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation. MiCA was introduced to implement “uniform EU… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC and CCTP are coming to Sui, according to an update from stablecoin issue Circle. Circle is pleased to confirm that “native USDC and Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) are coming soon to Sui.” Sui is a layer-1 (L1) blockchain that “offers fast, secure, scalable, and… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Orb, the modern billing platform reimagining how businesses monetize software, today announced $25M in Series B funding led by Mayfield, with participation “from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Greylock Partners, South Park Commons, Basecase, and Scribble Ventures and new investor Uncorrelated Ventures.” The new round brings… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 8:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sumsub announces the integration of its Travel Rule solution with the Sygna Travel Rule protocol to allow its crypto and fintech clients to communicate with the Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) in the Sygna ecosystem, particularly with those in Japan and Taiwan. The added protocol… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 8:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (HoSE: MSB) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with TerraPay, a global money movement company. This collaboration will bring digital payment solutions and data capabilities “to help MSB enhance efficiency and offer the best payment service experience to customers… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlueFlame AI, a provider of generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) solutions for the alternative investment management industry, announced the launch of Nexus. The innovative AI-powered solution is designed to transform the way firms “find, analyze, and report on the unstructured data contained within their various… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE: WT) has launched a new platform that aims to unlock tokenized real-world assets (RWA) access to users. The vision for WisdomTree Connect is to enable customers over time “to interact with any WisdomTree-issued token, in any wallet, across supported blockchains.” WisdomTree Connect marks… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 6:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French fintech company Market Pay, a pan-European payment platform, is launching a new point of sale software payment solution. The solution stands out by its ability to “offer a single app available both for terminal and smartphone payments.” It therefore can be used for “all… Read More

September 19, 2024 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ASIC expands operational resilience guidance for market participants. ASIC (in Australia) has officially released a letter to market participants “outlining technological and operational resilience guidance, clarifying how to identify critical business services and notification of a major event.” The guidance relates to the technological and… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital banking provider Tyfone announced Bank3 selected its nFinia Digital Banking platform to provide commercial and retail account holders a more intuitive and engaging experience, while also streamlining and automating back-office processes. The bank’s future growth initiatives are focused “on a wide range of commercial… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euronext has reportedly acquired research and market data benchmarking provider Substantive Research. Euronext confirmed that it has acquired 100% of Substantive Research, a company that is providing in-depth transparency on product and pricing comparison “for investment research spend, market data and investment research content.” Founded… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, and Chainlink Labs, the primary contributing developer of Chainlink—the essential infrastructure for the tokenized asset economy—announced a strategic collaboration to offer a secure and compliant technology solution for banks… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Konsentus announced that Konsentus’ European trusted data, Konsentus Verify, can now be accessed through an online portal, via a real-time API or a downloadable cache. Financial Institutions in the European Economic Area (EEA) can choose the delivery mechanism that best works for them. For open… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ctrl Alt, a financial engineering and tokenization platform with offices in the UK and Ireland, has officially launched in the UAE with an initial focus on the Emirate of Dubai. The company has already secured multiple partnerships, “including with Emirates NBD, with more public announcements… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC is now available in Brazil and Mexico through national payment systems, with local currency. Fiat transfers through real-time payment systems accelerate “access to digital dollars.”: Since Circle’s founding more than a decade ago, it’s been their mission “to harness the power of blockchain networks… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 7:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages (AIM: LINV), the UK’s platform for mortgages, announces the launch of its new Expat Buy-to-Let mortgage products. This launch marks another significant step in LendInvest‘s mission to simplify mortgage processes for all types of customer, “offering tailored solutions to meet diverse needs.” The… Read More

September 18, 2024 @ 2:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Xalts announced a deeper collaboration with Avalanche to bring more enterprise-grade real world asset tokenization solutions for institutions. This will provide out-of-the-box solutions to “enable financial services, governments, and other enterprise developers looking to build digital asset platforms for implementing blockchain, tokenization, and smart contract applications… Read More

September 17, 2024 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neil Chandler, CEO of Aion Bank, recently shared his opinions with CI on the evolution of Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and why he believes we are primed for BaaS 2.0. Change is afoot in the embedded banking space – BaaS is transitioning from its former status as… Read More