August 25, 2024 @ 6:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Workday, Inc. (NASDAQ: WDAY), a provider of solutions to help organizations manage their people and money, and Equifax (NYSE: EFX), a global data, analytics and technology company, today announced a partnership to help make employment and income verifications for Workday customers’ employees easier and faster… Read More

August 25, 2024 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a global digital payments provider, announced it is the first payment provider to partner with Google Pay to bring its biometric-based secure payment authentication service to merchants. Checkout.com, which offers authentication to merchants “such as Remitly, will offer Google Pay’s biometric authentication to brands… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zumo, the B2B digital assets infrastructure, has signed the Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Declaration, reinforcing its commitment to a greener financial services industry as it extends its reach further into the region. The Abu Dhabi Sustainable Finance Declaration “is a voluntary membership-based initiative launched by… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PhonePe announced the launch of Credit Line on UPI on its platform. Consumers who avail credit lines from their banks “can now link these credit lines to UPI on PhonePe and seamlessly make merchant payments.” This feature enables consumers to “make purchases with ease across millions… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 2:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The SUBSCRIBE alternative investment technology platform that helps institutional and wealth manager firms digitalize, centralize, and operate their complex private market programs is now available to financial advisors affiliated with MML Investors Services, a  independent broker/dealer and investment adviser subsidiary of MassMutual Vaughn Bowman, CFA,… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 1:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Baton Systems, a global capital markets tech provider orchestrating the optimized settlement of $20-30 billion (USD) in asset value daily, has introduced new treasury management tools designed to optimize intraday liquidity, reduce costly buffers and mitigate risk in real-time. The new liquidity management capabilities offer… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Agora has launched its “fully collateralized” US digital dollar, AUSD, on the Avalanche network. Built on the philosophy that money should be neutral, AUSD brings to “bear an open model that incentivizes businesses–from exchanges and applications to Fintechs and payment providers–to contribute to and service… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 11:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Superstate Industry Council is welcoming the second cohort of institutions. This diverse group of institutions joins them in “shaping Superstate’s product roadmap and driving the adoption of tokenization within traditional financial services and capital markets.” Since the council’s inception in March 2024, dozens of organizations… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers across the UK who are using digital financial management tools report being on average “£37.08 better off per month, or £445 better off per year, compared to pre-adoption.” Today, as many as 7.6 million3 Brits are already “using digital financial management tools, meaning this… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 9:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest and Beauhurst’s New Startup Index reports 468,000 new companies started up in the first half of 2024 – a 6% increase compared to the same period last year. In a sign of the strong potential of the UK economy, 468,000 new firms “have started… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group with ~$4.5 billion in client assets, has issued the industry-first syndicated loan backed by Bitcoin (BTC) to premier crypto lender Ledn, which will be used to fund the growth of Ledn’s retail lending operations. Syndicated among Sygnum’s institutional… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FinTech Wales and Future Finance have joined forces to drive financial innovation. FinTech Wales, the independent membership association and champion of the FinTech and Financial Services industry in Wales, has announced a new community partnership with Future Finance. Future Finance is a collaborative research project,… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

U.S. Bank, lead bank of U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB), has acquired Salucro Healthcare Solutions LLC. The Tempe, Arizona-based company provides healthcare financial technology, focused on patient payments and billing. Founded in 2004, Salucro is a market participant focused on providing online billing and payments offerings… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

China’s supreme court has updated its interpretation of the nation’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) laws in order recognize “virtual asset” transfers for the first time ever. China passed its AML law on January 1, 2007, making the most recent update its first major one in 20… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thera, a payroll and payments platform, has announced that it has raised a $4 million Seed round with participation from Y Combinator, 10x Founders, Amino Capital, Zillionize, and Bayhouse Capital. Angels in the investment round reportedly “include Oliver Jung, Chris Bakke, Andrew Yeung, Akash Magoon,… Read More

August 24, 2024 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CBA and BNY announced that they are delivering near real-time cross-border payments. Through a new cross-border payments collaboration between Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and The Bank of New York Mellon (BNY), Australian businesses and individuals who “receive international payments from BNY’s customers may now… Read More

August 23, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Siepe LLC, a provider of software and technology-enabled services for private credit and CLO managers, has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by WestCap, a strategic operating and investing firm with $6 billion in assets under management (AUM). The investment will… Read More

August 23, 2024 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset industry, announced plans for the addition of a new stablecoin that is pegged to the United Arab Emirates Dirham (AED). Set to be launched in collaboration with UAE’s multi-billion dollar tech… Read More

August 23, 2024 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Anchorage Digital, the crypto platform for institutions, is pleased to announce its first stablecoin rewards program, enabling institutions to earn competitive rewards on PayPal USD (PYUSD) balances held at Anchorage Digital or in our recently launched institutional self-custody wallet, Porto. PYUSD remains fully accessible and… Read More

August 23, 2024 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Franklin Templeton, a global investment firm with $1.6T in assets under management, has expanded its L1 blockchain footprint by extending the availability of its first-of-its-kind on-chain money market fund to the Avalanche network. The Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund (FOBXX or the Fund) was… Read More