April 6, 2025 @ 11:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, Europe’s Pay by Bank network, has announced a partnership with Papa Johns, one of the world’s pizza brands to introduce Pay by Bank, a payment method that enables customers to pay directly from their bank accounts. With TrueLayer’s open banking technology, Papa Johns customers… Read More

 Tagged europe, open banking, truelayer, uk

April 6, 2025 @ 10:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (BNY) (NYSE: BK), a global financial services company, announced the expansion of its Digital Asset Platform with the launch of its Digital Asset Data Insights product, designed to securely and efficiently “deliver both on- and off-chain data across… Read More

 Tagged bny, data, digital assets, financial services

April 6, 2025 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, an enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announced a new regional partnership with Kraken, one of the world’s digital asset platforms. The extended partnership sees ClearBank provide Kraken’s UK based clients with GBP clearing services “enabling on and off ramps into the digital… Read More

 Tagged banking, clearbank, digital assets, kraken

April 6, 2025 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a global enabler of digital payments, has expanded its value-added services portfolio with the addition of products that make accepting payments easier and secure in a complex commercial landscape: reimagined Authorize.net, Unified Checkout and the ARIC Risk Hub. According to the update… Read More

 Tagged cx, digital payments, digital transactions, visa

April 6, 2025 @ 5:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant development for the US financial services sector, the Department of Justice (DoJ) has given the green light to a $35 billion merger between Capital One Finance Group and Discover Financial Services. The decision, announced this week, marks a pivotal step forward for… Read More

 Tagged capital one, discover, doj, merger, us

April 6, 2025 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) giant Klarna has hit a roadblock in its highly anticipated journey to go public. Last month, the fintech powerhouse formally applied with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list its ordinary shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The company,… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, ipo, klarna, us

April 6, 2025 @ 5:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Entrust, a provider of identity-centric security solutions, and DocuSign (Nasdaq: DOCU) released the results of a joint global study examining the escalating costs of identity fraud and the trade-offs enterprises face between security and customer experience. The Future of Global Identity Verification research… Read More

 Tagged $DOCU, docusign, entrust, identity verification, Mangesh Bhandarkar, Tony Ball

April 5, 2025 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A report from FX-as-a-Service provider, MillTechFX, has revealed that over four-fifths (86%) of fund managers hedge their foreign exchange (FX), providing them with a “degree of protection from increased currency volatility due to rising geopolitical uncertainty.” The MillTechFX Global FX Report 2025 analyzes the findings… Read More

 Tagged fund managers, fx, research

April 5, 2025 @ 1:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from MoneyLion and Mastercard identifies links between financial, physical and mental wellness. It suggests that proper financial literacy tools could have benefits beyond the bank account. The report is part of the MoneyLion x Mastercard Health is Wealth campaign, which coincides with Financial Literacy Month and Physical… Read More

 Tagged financial literacy, financial wellness, mastercard, moneylion

April 4, 2025 @ 9:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

CloudBolt Software, a cloud cost management provider, has acquired StormForge, a provider of machine learning-powered Kubernetes resource optimization. CloudBolt first partnered with StormForge in early 2024, when the company became the inaugural member of CloudBolt’s Technical Alliance Program (TAP). With this acquisition, CloudBolt will fully… Read More

 Tagged CloudBolt, Craig Hinkley, Kubernetes, Rod Squires, StormForge, Yasmin Rajabi