February 10, 2025 @ 1:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial Cloud, a provider of enterprise software solutions, partnered with bank payment company GoCardless to improve payments for financial service providers in the United Kingdom. This collaboration will see GoCardless’ Direct Debit payments and Instant Bank Pay (IBP), its open banking payment feature for “one-off… Read More

 Tagged financial cloud, gocardless, uk, united kingdom

February 10, 2025 @ 9:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

While some trends are unmistakable, the key is to identify them before the market does. Smart investors do that by leveraging data from private markets, which can identify trends by analyzing activity between IPOs and other key events. Forge serves accredited seed and angel investors,… Read More

 Tagged forge, Howe Ng, ipo, Magnificent Seven, Private Magnificent 7

February 10, 2025 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase, the global enabler of Engagement Banking, announces a partnership with Feedzai, the provider of financial intelligence solutions, aiming to empower banks to tackle the growing challenge of digital fraud while “maintaining seamless customer experiences.” The collab integrates Feedzai’s Digital Trust solutions with Backbase’s Engagement… Read More

 Tagged backbase, engagement banking, feedzai, fraud

February 10, 2025 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and co-founder of Klarna, announced on Saturday that the Swedish buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) Fintech is planning to integrate cryptocurrency into its services. Siemiatkowski acknowledged that Klarna was among the last major fintech players to enter the crypto space. Siemiatkowski, who founded Klarna in… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, circle, Crypto Adoption, klarna, payments

February 10, 2025 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fold, a Bitcoin rewards card provider, announced an expansion of its collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) to bring innovative Bitcoin rewards card programs to the market. This expanded agreement encompasses Fold’s flagship debit card program and upcoming credit card products, leveraging Visa’s shared services and incentives to… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, btc, crypto rewards, fold, visa

February 10, 2025 @ 6:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Monite, a provider of API-first embedded workflows, has launched its iFrame solution, designed to enable small to medium-sized business (SMB) platforms to integrate core financial features within a short timeframe. This solution aims to bypass lengthy development cycles, allowing SMB providers to deliver financial functionalities… Read More

 Tagged embedded finance, monite, smbs

February 9, 2025 @ 11:15 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Tuma Ventures Limited, a UK-based payments company regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has received approval from the Bank of Tanzania to operate as a licensed Payment System Provider (PSP). With the PSP licence, Tuma Ventures will offer a range of financial services in… Read More

 Tagged payments, tanzania, Tuma Ventures, uk

February 9, 2025 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, is announcing that Y-Intercept has chosen RiskSmart +, an integrated solution for risk and portfolio management, to support the firm’s growth. Y-Intercept, a Hong Kong-based quantitative investment firm specializing in… Read More

 Tagged risk managemnet, trading, ts imagine, y-intercept

February 9, 2025 @ 3:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FICO (NYSE: FICO), global analytics software provider, released key guidance and takeaways from a study that has recently analyzed the impact of including ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ (BNPL) loans in a consumer’s FICO Score. FICO conducted the 12-month study in partnership with Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM),… Read More

 Tagged affirm, bnpl, buy now pay later, fico

February 9, 2025 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research says that it defines a QR code payment as a form of contactless payment that allows a transfer to be performed by simply scanning a code. The research report from Juniper Research explained that this definition encompasses both merchant-presented mode (MPM) and consumer-presented… Read More

 Tagged payments, qr codes, research