September 16, 2023 @ 6:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CAIS, the alternative investment platform for independent financial advisors, announced an expanded menu of strategies from twelve alternative asset managers, underscoring their commitment to the independent wealth channel. Apollo Global Management, Ares Management Corporation, Bain Capital, Blue Owl Capital, The Carlyle Group, Fidelity Investments, Franklin… Read More

 Tagged alternative asset managers, alternative investments, Business Expansion, cais, financial advisors, investing, investments

September 15, 2023 @ 5:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  According to Insights Distilled’s recent State of Enterprise Tech report, API-first development is streamlining software, with respondents claiming they are ready to start utilizing APIs at scale, with 43% naming it a top priority for 2023. Additionally, a survey from Insight Partners’ portfolio company… Read More

 Tagged apis, clear street, insights, interview, software applications, software developments

September 15, 2023 @ 10:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MX Technologies, Inc., which claims to be an industry leader in Open Finance, announced it has named Michael Whitacre as Chief Commercial Officer, effective October 2, 2023. Michael brings more than 30 years of experience “leading world-class revenue and sales organizations focused on helping financial… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, jim magats, mx, mx technologies, new appointments, united states, us

September 15, 2023 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank Ltd., an enabler of bank accounts, real-time clearing, and embedded banking for financial institutions, presents its unaudited H1 2023 results. The bank saw “a 144% YoY increase in revenues from £20.2m in H1 2022 to £49.3m in H1 2023.” Over the same period, customer… Read More

 Tagged banking, charles mcmanus, clearbank, embedded banking, uk, united kingdom

September 15, 2023 @ 9:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

iProov, a provider of facial biometrics solutions, this week announced a new partnership with Estonia-based Cybernetica, a company focused on delivering future-proof technologies for secure digital societies. The partnership will see the companies collaborate to create a multi-factor authentication (MFA) digital identity solution for government… Read More

 Tagged biometrics, estonia, iproov, mfa

September 15, 2023 @ 9:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Empeon, the enterprise-grade Human Capital Management (HCM) platform for health systems, announces its partnership with Keeper, an earned wage access (EWA) platform for healthcare workers. The two software providers are joining forces “to give healthcare organizations a powerful tool to combat chronic healthcare labor shortages… Read More

 Tagged earned wage access, healthcare, human capital management

September 15, 2023 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lunar doubles net interest and fee income in the first half of 2023 “compared to the same period last year.” At the same time, Lunar continues its investments in “developing the business and the product range to become the best everyday bank in the Nordics.”… Read More

 Tagged banking, banking challenger, challenger bank, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, lunar, nordics, revenue growth

September 15, 2023 @ 8:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Apiture, a provider of digital banking solutions, announced the introduction of family banking through a partnership with Greenlight, a fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. Through the Greenlight for Banks program, Greenlight’s family finance app is now… Read More

 Tagged apiture, chris babcock, financial literacy, greenlight, matt wolf

September 14, 2023 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) are expanding their partnership to help organizations reinvent their finance functions to be more agile, data-driven and customer-centric. The companies are collaborating “to develop a suite of data-led, composable finance solutions that can be configured and reconfigured to… Read More

 Tagged accenture, Business Expansion, data, finance, financial services, salesforce

September 14, 2023 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance collaborate “to spur skill development in the regional financial sector” Described as a “first-of-its-kind” collaboration, Mastercard and the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance will aim to “initiate a renewed understanding of the latest industry… Read More

 Tagged bahrain, financial services, mastercard, mena, mena region, middle east