April 30, 2024 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses with a fiat-to-crypto onramp, now supports the Avalanche C-Chain. Retail users can purchase AVAX directly through Stripe, “removing the need to go through an exchange.” Available to U.S. Stripe’s fiat-to-crypto onramp is “a customizable widget embedded into Avalanche… Read More

 Tagged avalanche, distributed ledger technology, fintech adoption, stripe

April 30, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, FinQuery (formerly LeaseQuery), a provider of AI-powered solutions, announced a $25 million minority investment led by Periphas Capital and supported by Lavelle Capital. The funding will accelerate product innovation and support strategic mergers and acquisitions. FinQuery’s AI-driven SaaS platform unifies finance, accounting, and… Read More

 Tagged FinQuery, George Azih, LeaseQuery, Sanjeev Mehra, Sanjeev Rao, spend management

April 29, 2024 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A collective sense of measured “optimism” developed throughout Q1 2024, as the S&P 500 recorded its best-performing first quarter since 2019, the FT Partners team noted in a research report covering Fintech ecosystem developments. The Fintech focused research report from FT Partners pointed out that… Read More

 Tagged fintech adoption, ft partners, research, vc, venture capital

April 29, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has released its latest report, titled, State of Pre-Seed: Q1 2024. Carta notes in the research report that fundraising for pre-seed companies “stayed robust in Q1 2024, dominated by SAFEs and convertible notes; valuation caps remained flat.” While commenting on the actual definition/criteria for… Read More

 Tagged carta, insights, pre-seed funding, research

April 29, 2024 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) Workforce Solutions continues to help businesses transform the employee experience with the launch of Forms HQ, a new offering designed to help automate the delivery, completion, and tracking of essential employee forms, “including those related to onboarding, tax withholding, state requirements, annual notices,… Read More

 Tagged equifax, taxes, workforce solutions

April 29, 2024 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mid-sized banks have a big opportunity to maximize revenue potential and improve client experiences by transitioning to embedded banking, and to realize the full benefits of this transition, they need to leverage virtual ledgers, a report by tech payments company Finzly and Datos found. The… Read More

 Tagged banking, datos insights, embedded banking, Finzly, research

April 29, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State chartered FDIC-insured bank and Equal Housing Lender known for its Commercial Banking Group (CBG) and real estate lending platform, has reportedly “closed over $200 million in originations in the first quarter of the year.” “True” to the company’s… Read More

 Tagged cross river banking, digital financial services, lending, real estate

April 29, 2024 @ 1:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

TerraPay and VM Money Transfer Services (VMTS) have partnered to offer services in Jamaica. According to a company release, the two firms will enable transfers for individuals looking to move money between Jamaica and much of the rest of the world. This new agreement means… Read More

 Tagged jamaica, terrapay, VM Money

April 29, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DataVisor, an AI-powered fraud and risk platform, this week expanded its partnership with DCI, a provider of core processing, digital banking, and fintech solutions. DCI will now broaden the use of DataVisor’s fraud solutions to support more community banks across a variety of use cases. Since partnering with… Read More

 Tagged datavisor, dci, fraud, Sarah Fankhauser, yinglian xie

April 29, 2024 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a global digital payments provider, announced it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and services for customers. Visa’s presence in the APN will help “enable its partners… Read More

 Tagged aws, digital transactions, payments, visa