Omar Faridi

Galileo Financial Technologies Streamlines B2B Expense Management Offering with Mastercard Smart Data

Galileo Financial Technologies, a financial technology company owned by SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), is now offering its fintech clients, with fintech Rho as the first to launch, the ability to connect their business customers to Mastercard Smart Data, an expense reporting and analytics suite…. Read More

Shift4 Payments to Acquire All Issued, Outstanding Shares of Givex Corp.

Givex Corp. announced that it has entered into a definitive arrangement agreement with Shift4 Payments, Inc. pursuant to which Shift4 has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Givex, by way of a statutory plan of arrangement. Under the terms of… Read More

Fintech Conotoxia Adds Multi-Currency Cards for Businesses

Fintech Conotoxia has introduced cards for its business customers – with a new image. Companies can order multi-currency cards, which can be used to pay in more than 160 currencies worldwide and make payments in 23 without currency conversion. As noted in a blog post,… Read More

Neobank Comun Secures $21.5M via Series A Round

Comun, a neobank that provides modern banking solutions to immigrants1 in the U.S., announced it has raised $21.5M in its Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures with participation from ANIMO Ventures, Costanoa Ventures, FJ Labs, RTP Global, and South Park Commons. The company,… Read More

Fintech Appital Expands Offering to Include Pre-Trade Price Discovery Functionality

Appital, a peer-to-peer price discovery and liquidity sourcing technology for asset managers, announced the launch of a new functionality designed to stimulate natural liquidity among Appital’s buyside clients and discover pricing dynamics on larger ADV orders on their pad. Price Discovery in Appital Insights is… Read More

Custodia Bank Announces Layoffs as Regulatory Challenges Lead to Uncertainty for Crypto Firms

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The Biden administration’s regulatory approach towards crypto-assets has led to considerable restructuring at a relatively small, yet somewhat prominent digital assets bank. FOX Business has revealed that Custodia Bank, a Wyoming based financial institution that provides various banking services to crypto firms, said  Thursday that… Read More

CME Group to Offer Bitcoin (BTC) Friday Futures Starting on Sept 30

CME Group said it will further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offerings by introducing Bitcoin Friday futures (BFF) on September 30, pending regulatory review. Sized at one-fiftieth of one bitcoin, these new weekly futures contracts “will be cash-settled to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate New… Read More

Freetrade Selects Sharegain to Launch Securities Lending for UK Clients

Freetrade, the “commission free” investment platform, has launched ‘share lending’ to its clients, a new service powered by Sharegain that enables its clients to generate passive income from lending their stocks and ETFs. With Sharegain, Freetrade was able “to launch its securities lending program with… Read More

UK’s Allica Bank Enters Bridging Market with Tuscan Acquisition

UK’s business bank Allica has acquired bridging lender Tuscan Capital, representing Allica’s first foray into the bridging finance market. The Tuscan team, based across the UK, will eventually “integrate fully into the Allica team, benefitting from access to Allica’s funding base and distribution network.” Allica,… Read More

Fintech Nium Strengthens Presence in Lithuania with Local Team and Business Expansion

Over the last seven years, Nium has steadily grown its presence in Lithuania following the approval of its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license by the Bank of Lithuania in 2017. The license has enabled the fintech “to better serve its European and global business customers… Read More

Fintech SmartStream Introduces Latest TLM Collateral Management Solution

SmartStream, says it has launched a new version of the TLM Collateral Management solution. Version 7.0, developed in collaboration “with a tier-one bank customer, introduces new features such as real-time updates of information via versioned APIs across business lines, serving multiple jurisdictions globally.” The expanded… Read More

Fintech Pine Labs and Visa to Streamline Digital Payments Adoption

Fintech Pine Labs and Visa (NYSE: V), the enabler of global payments have come together to scale digital payments acceptance and further India’s vision of a digital economy by unveiling Pine Labs Mini, a soundbox-enabled device for QR, Near Field Communication (NFC) and card payments. The… Read More

Global Insurtech Firms Increasingly Focused on Embedded Insurance and Leveraging AI Algorithms – Report

The Insurtech 50 is CB Insights’ annual list of the 50 most promising private insurtech companies in the world. This year’s winners are working on everything from AI assistants to embedded insurance. CB Insights has unveiled the third annual Insurtech 50 — a list of… Read More

Aurem Announces Licensing by UAE’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority

Aurem, a unified workplace wealth and benefits technology platform, announces its licensing by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), marking a significant milestone in the company’s mission to connect the world for a better financial future. The company is… Read More

CommBank, Telstra Announce Expanded Anti-Scam Tech to Help Protect Elderly Consumers in Australia from Fraudulent Activities

CommBank and Telstra announced their anti-scam technology Scam Indicator has been expanded to cover landlines, to help detect suspicious calls in real-time, helping to avoid money being lost to scammers. The anti-scam technology, which was “conceived and developed in partnership with Quantium Telstra to help… Read More

Regtech: Jumio, an Identity Verification and Compliance Solutions Provider, Now Available via AWS Marketplace

Jumio, a global provider of automated, AI-driven identity verification, risk signals and compliance solutions, announced that it is now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy… Read More

Digital Banking Services Provider CaixaBank to Expand Mobile Office Services to Enable Financial Inclusion in 800+ Municipalities

During the first half of the year, CaixaBank expanded its mobile offices services to guarantee the financial inclusion to reach a total of 804 towns, “amounting to a 27% increase compared to the number of towns reached by the financial institution’s mobile offices service in… Read More

Digital Assets May Become New Alternative for Institutional Investors – Research Report

OKX Global Chief Commercial Officer Lennix Lai is pleased to share the release of their new research brief, “Digital assets as the new alternative for institutional investors: market dynamics, opportunities and challenges,” commissioned by OKX Institutional and authored by Economist Impact. This comprehensive study features… Read More

Majority of DACH Finance Professionals Say Outdated Financial Close Processes Result in Employee Turnover – Research Study

FloQast has announced the results of Market Study: The Role of Finance Automation in Reducing Stress and Retaining Talent in the DACH Region, the company’s latest research initiative. The survey explores the status of automation and digitalization “in finance and accounting teams in Germany, Austria,… Read More

US Regulators Grant Digital Bank OakNorth Authorization for Representative Office

OakNorth – the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs – announces that it has secured authorization from the Federal Reserve and the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) for a Representative Office in New York. The authorization will enable OakNorth to “proactively market… Read More

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