June 26, 2024 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank payment company GoCardless has announced a partnership with integration and automation platform Celigo to accelerate its growth through indirect channels. Leveraging Celigo’s integration platform (iPaaS) will enable GoCardless “to build integrations between its payment platform and the back-end systems commonly used by businesses today.”… Read More

 Tagged automation, celigo, gocardless, integration

June 26, 2024 @ 9:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MiddleGame Ventures (MGV), a Luxembourg-based investment firm focused on Fintech startups, announced today that it has raised a new fund targeting early-stage investments in Europe. The fund is designed to support the next generation of digital financial service providers “at the Post-Seed, Series A, and… Read More

 Tagged fintech adoption, investments, luxembourg, middlegame ventures

June 26, 2024 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Venu Appana from global Fintech Finastra, who helped us learn more about embedded lending services. Venu talked about the various concerns about BNPL products. He also helped us gain a better understanding of the overall Fintech industry trends and the current state… Read More

 Tagged embedded lending, finastra, fintech trends, interview, venu appana

June 26, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment, the independent digital financial advisor, announced that Betterment for Advisors, its RIA custody division, has added new integrations with eMoney Advisor, Kwanti and Panoramix, which are available immediately to all advisors on the platform. Independent advisors need tools and software that “can work together… Read More

 Tagged betterment, custody, digital financial services, ria

June 26, 2024 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The SaaS funding landscape in 2024 is very different from even two years ago, according to an update from Capchase. In previous years, venture capital (VC) funding was “the most popular form of SaaS funding, with countless firms investing bold amounts into fledgling companies,” the… Read More

 Tagged capchase, funding, saas, software as a service

June 25, 2024 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, announced the divestment of Klarna Checkout (KCO). The buyer is a consortium of investors led “by Kamjar Hajabdolahi, CEO & Founding Partner at BLQ Invest.” This strategic move will allow KCO to “continue its evolution… Read More

 Tagged ai, klarna, klarna checkout, payments

June 25, 2024 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ION, a global enabler of trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting, announces the successful integration of its fixed-income solutions with XTP Execution, extending client access to a range of futures markets for trading and market data. In today’s highly competitive and… Read More

 Tagged automation, ion, trading, xtp execution

June 25, 2024 @ 2:23 pm By JD Alois  |  

Financial services are best when they are ubiquitous but not obtrusive – there when you need them, but otherwise, not in the way. This is the goal of Fintech everwhere and embedded financial services. In Brazil, iFood Pago, a digital bank for restaurants, is taking… Read More

 Tagged banking, brazil, digital bank, ifood, ifood pago, latam, zoop

June 25, 2024 @ 1:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

REGnosys, the collaboration platform for regulatory reporting, has contributed the language underpinning its digital regulatory reporting solution to the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services umbrella of the Linux Foundation. The language – formerly known as the Rosetta DSL (Domain-Specific Language) and renamed… Read More

 Tagged finos, fintech open source foundation, regnosys, regulatory reporting

June 25, 2024 @ 12:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian and Virgin Money announced a strategic partnership to enhance Virgin Money’s digital customer experience by leveraging its suite of cloud-based technology. The partnership will see Virgin Money use Experian’s full breadth of services “including credit and lending, fraud prevention, analytics, governance, and compliance as… Read More

 Tagged cloud, experian, uk, united kingdom, virgin money