March 15, 2024 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced a strategic minority investment in Icon Solutions, a fintech provider of payments technology and consultancy services. The investment follows the news last September that NatWest “selected Icon Payments Framework (IPF) to accelerate the bank’s payments modernisation.” Launched in 2020, IPF is… Read More

 Tagged Icon Solutions, natwest, uk, united kingdom

March 15, 2024 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Five months after Nubank (NYSE: NU) launched its first index funds (ETFs) through its investment fund manager, Nu Asset, Nu Renda Ibov Smart Dividendos (NDIV11) and Nu Ibov Smart Dividendos (NSDV11) have already “accumulated R$57 million in investments, with R$23 million in NSDV11 and R$34… Read More

 Tagged brazil, etfs, investments, latam, nubank

March 15, 2024 @ 12:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MeaWallet, a digital payments enabler specializing in card tokenization, announces its partnership with Fondeadora, Mexico’s financial service provider. Fondeadora, renowned as the digital alternative “to traditional Mexican banking, is on a mission to empower individuals by returning control over their finances.” Being among the first… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, digitalization, latam, meawallet, mexico

March 15, 2024 @ 10:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Grasshopper has announced Gabrielle Piasio’s addition as Senior Vice President of Sponsor Banking. This move marks the bank’s continued commitment to providing comprehensive lending and depository solutions to companies of all stages. In this role, Piasio is expected to help move the banking institution’s strategic… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital bank, grasshopper

March 15, 2024 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Portuguese bank Banco BPI and Personetics announced the introduction of Pulsoo, an independently branded application that empowers small and medium business (SMB) owners to manage their businesses. In a single pane of glass that can be quickly consulted and queried throughout the business day, Pulsoo… Read More

 Tagged banco bpi, personetics, portugal, pulsoo, smbs

March 15, 2024 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Levenue, a revenue-based financing company, has acquired MidFunder, a Zurich-based Fintech that provides financing for companies with recurring revenue. The acquisition marks a strategic move to enhance its Swiss operations. As entrepreneurs and early-stage investors, Patrick Frei, Founder of MidFunder, and Pascal Schumperli, Co-Founder, identified… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, europe, levenue, midfunder, switzerland

March 15, 2024 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ANNA is announcing that they’ve acquired GetCape, a Sydney-based fintech that operates as a business spend management platform. The acquisition signals ANNA’s aim to “create a new SaaS (software as a service) category to take on Australia’s ‘big four’ banks, ANZ, CommBank, NAB and Westpac,… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, anna, australia, getcape, uk, united kingdom

March 15, 2024 @ 5:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aquis Exchange PLC is announcing that it has been awarded the contract to provide the Central Bank of Colombia, Banco de la República, with the technology and support services for the operation of its government bond market (Sistema Electrónico de Negociación – SEN). Aquis Technologies… Read More

 Tagged aquis exchange, banking, colombia, latam

March 14, 2024 @ 6:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) introduced the new FedNow User Group to continue promoting collaboration among the 607 participating financial institutions and their service providers on the FedNow Service network. The FedNow User Group aims to “facilitate regular engagement between FRFS and FedNow participants to… Read More

 Tagged federal reserve, fednow, financial services, united states

March 14, 2024 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe’s mission is to grow the GDP of the internet. The core idea behind the company—one they endeavor to take very seriously—is that we’re still early in the journey of software-driven innovation, and Stripe is “an applied exercise in thinking through some of the corollaries… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, milestone, payments processing, stripe