March 22, 2025 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, and Forward, a technology partner empowering Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies to integrate and monetize payments, are addressing some of the core payment challenges currently inhibiting the growth of SaaS providers through embedded payment offerings…. Read More

 Tagged cross river, cross river bank, financial services, forward, saas

March 22, 2025 @ 6:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Results of a survey commissioned by Engage People, a loyalty network that enables program members to pay with points directly at checkout, found that 90% of consumers are open to switching brands. This highlights the growing importance of financial-based rewards—such as the ability to Pay… Read More

 Tagged engage people, len covello, loyalty programs, rewards points

March 21, 2025 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

dLocal, the payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, announced a partnership with Belmoney, the  Remittance-as-a-Service (RAAS) provider in Europe. The global remittance industry remains burdened “with high fees and slow transaction speeds.” According to the IMF, transfers under $200 incur average fees “of… Read More

 Tagged belmoney, dlocal, europe, payments, remittances

March 21, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, announces a new partnership with Round Treasury, a banking and treasury platform that aims to simplify and help businesses manage their treasury and cash. Managing cash flow remains a challenge for founders, as traditional banking solutions are typically “not… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital investing, round treasury, wealthkernel

March 21, 2025 @ 4:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), published by Z/Yen, was released yesterday, and New York City was in first place, as it has been for many years. London, a global finance hub, was in second place, but it was shown as closing the gap with NYC…. Read More

 Tagged Global Financial Centres Index, research, Rydoo, z/yen

March 21, 2025 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced it is expanding its credit reporting to Experian to include all of Affirm’s pay-over-time products beginning April 1, 2025. By furnishing information about all of its pay-over-time transactions… Read More

 Tagged affirm, bnpl, credit, experian, pay over time, payments

March 21, 2025 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments company, announced that its Intelligent Acceptance product, an AI-powered engine designed to help enterprise businesses boost their payment performance, generated over “$10 billion in additional merchant revenue.” Powered by over 20 billion data points and insights from Checkout.com’s global network, Intelligent… Read More

 Tagged ai, checkout.com, digital payments, digital transactions, e-commerce

March 21, 2025 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken, which claims to be one of the “longest-standing, most liquid and secure” crypto platforms serving “more than 15 million” clients globally, has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, the U.S. retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments…. Read More

 Tagged acquisition, digital assets, kraken, ninjatrader, trading

March 21, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced that it has become the first UK-headquartered bank to work with OpenAI as part of a collaboration that supports its strategic focus on bank-wide simplification, which includes deploying AI to meet customers’ needs more effectively and to “increase productivity and efficiency… Read More

 Tagged ai, natwest, natwest group, openai, uk, united kingdom

March 20, 2025 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has joined forces with the Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) to train the bank’s employees in the fields of data and AI. As the first bank in the UAE to launch an enterprise-wide data literacy program, CBD says that it is setting… Read More

 Tagged accenture, ai, banking, dubai, uae