April 17, 2025 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be the largest company in the digital asset industry, has made a strategic investment in Fizen Limited, a Fintech specializing in self-custody crypto wallets and digital payments. This investment underscores Tether’s commitment to supporting solutions that aim to “enhance financial accessibility… Read More

 Tagged crypto payments, fizen, investments, stablecoins, tether

April 17, 2025 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

eBay, a global commerce enabler that connects millions of buyers and sellers around the world, today announced its partnership with Checkout.com, a global digital payments platform. Through this partnership, eBay reportedly expands its international payment platform “to deliver seamless commerce experiences for its customers.” With… Read More

 Tagged checkout.com, digital commerce, digital payments, ebay

April 17, 2025 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse AG, the Swiss crypto financial service provider, and SSI Wealth Management AG, an independent wealth management firm, are pleased to announce a collaboration that will aim to “expand the investment opportunities available to their respective clients.” Bitcoin Suisse will provide SSI Wealth Management’s… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin suisse, europe, investments, switzerland, wealth management

April 16, 2025 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New analysis and research from UK’s online pension provider PensionBee highlights an increase in pension contributions in 2024, despite ongoing pressures on household budgets. On average, savers contributed “£285 (19%) more to their pensions in 2024 compared to 2023, taking the average up from £1,192… Read More

 Tagged pensionbee, pensions, research, uk, united kingdom

April 16, 2025 @ 9:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ncontracts, a provider of integrated compliance, risk, and third-party management solutions to the financial services industry, has released findings from its 2025 Third-Party Risk Management Survey. The report discussses the biggest trends, risks, and strategies shaping third-party risk management (TPRM) today. Conducted between November 2024… Read More

 Tagged Michael Berman, Ncontracts, risk, TPRM

April 16, 2025 @ 12:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pipe, a fintech company enabling embedded financial solutions for software platforms, today announced its strategic acquisition of Glean.ai, an AI-powered spend management company. With this acquisition, Pipe becomes the first embedded finance company to bring together “embedded capital and spend management for small businesses via… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, ai, glean.ai, pipe, spend management

April 16, 2025 @ 11:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Toqio, a technology platform for B2B embedded finance solutions, has launched Toqio Design Studio, a Fintech platform that enables corporates to build, configure and launch embedded finance solutions. Businesses can launch multiple, bespoke embedded finance solutions in as little as 12 weeks. Design Studio is… Read More

 Tagged Design studio, Eduardo Martinez, embedded finance, Mike Galvin, toqio

April 16, 2025 @ 10:58 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rain, the employer-integrated earned wage access (EWA) and financial wellness app, has raised $75 million in Series B equity funding. The round was led by Prosus, with additional participation from Nextalia Ventures, Spark Growth Ventures, and existing investors, including QED and Invus Opportunities. This funding… Read More

 Tagged Alex Bradford, Ali Esfahani, Attilio Mazzilli, earned wage access, ewa, funding round, rain

April 16, 2025 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Tech funding in France has cratered by 52% according to a report. During Q1 2025, early-stage tech ventures raised $820 million, a 52% decline compared to Q4 2024 when $1.7 billion was reported. According to the France Tech Q1 2025 Funding Report, published by Tracxn,… Read More

 Tagged france, tracxn, vc, venture capital

April 16, 2025 @ 9:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Artificial intelligence startup Portia AI has raised £4.4 million in funding led by General Catalyst with the participation of First Minute Capital and Stem AI. Portia AI is a provider of AI development tools offering an open-source SDK. The company says users can “build production-grade… Read More

 Tagged portia ai, uk, united kingdom