January 21, 2021 @ 1:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based Blend, which claims to offer market-leading digital lending technology that makes the process of acquiring a loan simpler, faster, and safer, has shared insights on how to unlock better online lending development with their products. Blend acknowledges that creating useful financial products can… Read More

 Tagged blend, digital lending, digital technology, digital transformation, fintech lending, lending, online lending, san francisco, united states, us

January 21, 2021 @ 9:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Tom Blomfield, founder of digital bank Monzo and former CEO is departing the Fintech entirely at the end of January according to a report. Blomfield has been slowly exiting the Fintech in the last couple of years having passed the CEO title to another some… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital bank, monzo, tom blomfield, ts anil, uk, united kingdom

January 21, 2021 @ 9:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Paystone, a payments and integrated software company, announces it secured $69 million in strategic financing from the Canadian Business Growth Fund (CBGF) and the National Bank of Canada. Founded in 2009, Paystone claims to be a leading payment and software company redefining the way merchants… Read More

 Tagged canada, canadian business growth fund, integrated software, investment, national bank of canada, payments, paystone, strategic financing

January 21, 2021 @ 9:12 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

iCapital Network, a fintech providing access to alternative investments, announced on Thursday it is set to acquire the assets of AI Insight, Inc., an alternative investment education and compliance platform. According to iCapital Network, the AI Insight platform offers financial advisors investment research, training, qualification,… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, ai, ai insight, capital network, investment education, u.s., united states

January 21, 2021 @ 8:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a banking software company, announced on Thursday it has hit a new milestone by supporting a total of  60 challenger bank clients. Temenos reported that digital banks, such as Alba, Alpian, Banco del Sol, Flowe, FlowBank, Lunar, Next Commercial Bank, Pepper, Varo Bank, and WeLab Bank, have selected the company’s… Read More

 Tagged banking, challenger bank, fintech, milestone, switzerland, temenos

January 21, 2021 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lex Sokolin, CMO at blockchain firm ConsenSys and Co-Head of Fintech and DeFi at ConsenSys Codefi, recently discussed how can we “best understand” the 100x revenue multiples for Fintech firms Affirm, Checkout, Rapyd, and several others. 1/ How can we best understand the 100x revenue… Read More

 Tagged affirm, blend, checkout.com, consensys, fintech adoption, fintech valuations, investment rounds, lex sokolin, rapyd, valuations

January 20, 2021 @ 11:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments platform Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) explains that their approach to engineering and development involves open-sourcing their technology stack or building various solutions in-house. Burak Yildirim, Team Lead, Adyen, writes in a blog post that being the most “money-involved domain” of Fintech, payment processing platforms such… Read More

 Tagged adyen, burak yildirim, data privacy, digital payments, engineering, europe, financial crime, financial privacy, fintech adoption, fraud, fraudulent activities, hackers, open source, payments processing

January 20, 2021 @ 10:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood, a digital investment platform that has encouraged a new generation of investors to enter the markets, notes that with millions of new investors or traders now joining Robinhood and investing for the first time, financial education has “never been more crucial.” As the company… Read More

 Tagged digital investment platform, educational resources, financial literacy, robinhood, stock trading

January 20, 2021 @ 10:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Peer to peer lending marketplace Mintos notes that it will be improving “default diversification” for custom automated strategies on its platform. The Mintos team confirms that they currently provide several ways to invest. According to the lending platform’s developers, these strategies “give investors extra control… Read More

 Tagged europe, lending, mintos, p2p lender, p2p lending, peer to peer

January 20, 2021 @ 9:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chicago-based Avant, a Fintech firm that aims to give everyday Americans “access to the financial products they deserve,” notes that millions of US residents continue to struggle through the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a $900 billion relief bill was recently signed into law (toward the end… Read More

 Tagged avant, chicago, coronavirus, covid-19, financial services, irs, stimulus checks, tax returns, united states, us