May 18, 2025 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Acorns, the financial wellness app for everyday Americans, announced the asset acquisition of EarlyBird, the family wealth and digital memory platform for children. With this move, Acorns further enhances its role in financial wellness for the family. In the past year, Acorns has doubled its… Read More

 Tagged acorns, earlybird, financial wellbeing, us

May 18, 2025 @ 10:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With the acquisition of Finanzportal24, Etops says that it strengthens its position in the market for digital wealth advisory and will offer financial service providers — “including independent financial advisors, intermediaries, as well as banks and insurance companies — an even broader range of integrated… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, etops, finanzportal24, germany, wealth management, wealthtech

May 18, 2025 @ 8:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN), a provider of payment technology and software solutions, has released Genius, a new POS command center for business operations. The launch unifies all the Global Payments POS products into an all-in-one, intuitive and highly configurable new POS platform. “Going to… Read More

 Tagged Cameron Bready, Genius, payments, POS system

May 18, 2025 @ 5:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

inabit, a provider of secure cryptocurrency management solutions, has announced its collaboration with Google Cloud to utilize its Confidential Computing platform to provide stronger security for cryptocurrency and digital asset transactions.  The urgency of this collaboration is underscored by recent high-profile security breaches, notably the… Read More

 Tagged Confidential Space, inabit

May 17, 2025 @ 11:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CrediLinq, an AI-powered embedded finance platform for digital-first SMEs, has closed an $8.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by OM/VC and MS&AD Ventures. New investors include Citi North America and the Rustem Family office. Returning investors include 500 Global, Epic Angels, 1982 VC and… Read More

 Tagged CrediLinq, deep singh, embedded credit, funding round, jon soberg, Vikram Kotibhaskar

May 17, 2025 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CrediLinq, the AI-powered embedded finance platform that is enabling access to growth capital for underserved digital-first SMEs globally, announced the close of its $8.5 million Series A funding round. The funding round was led by OM/VC and MS&AD Ventures. New investors include Citi North America… Read More

 Tagged ai, CrediLinq, embedded finance, funding round, sme's

May 17, 2025 @ 11:01 am By Michael Wong  |  

BillEase, a digital consumer finance platform in the Philippines, has partnered with Maya Business, the country’s largest digital payments processor, to bring its Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service to Maya’s ecosystem. The integration enables installment-based payments at checkout via QRPh-enabled point-of-sale (POS) terminals and… Read More

 Tagged BillEase, bnpl, Maya Business, Philippines

May 16, 2025 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alpaca, an API-first stock and crypto brokerage platform, announced the launch of its Fully Paid Securities Lending (FPSL) program for its Broker API, marking a significant milestone in its mission to democratize access to financial services. This offering enables Alpaca’s fintech partners to diversify revenue… Read More

 Tagged alpaca, apis, lending, trading

May 16, 2025 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zoho Corporation, a global technology company, launched Zoho Payments, a unified payment solution that helps businesses collect payments online using multiple payment methods like cards and ACH. The solution offers native payments capabilities within Zoho, enabling businesses to “manage payments directly within their existing financial… Read More

 Tagged ach, digital transactions, online payments, zoho payments

May 16, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released a joint research study that explored if and how central banks could continue to “implement monetary policy operations in hypothetical tokenized wholesale financial markets.” Project Pine, from the New York… Read More

 Tagged financial markets, Research Study, smart contracts, tokenization