September 16, 2021 @ 2:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Curve, a fast-growing neo-bank, has announced a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service joining the rest of the market as it moves away from high-cost cards for certain purchases. Curve Flex is said to have received approval from the UK Financial Conduct Authority on September… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, buy now pay later, curve, curve flex, shachar bialick, uk, united kingdom

September 16, 2021 @ 2:03 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grow Credit, a Black-owned financial inclusion platform, has raised a $106.3 million financing seed round, comprised of $6.3 million in equity financing from various investors and $100 million in debt financing from Arena Investors, LP, a $2.6 billion private investment fund. The round includes returning… Read More

 Tagged Arena Investors, Baron Davis, commerce ventures, financial inclusion, Grow Credit, grow credity, jason gardner, jason robins, joe bayen, Matt Higgins, mucker capital, omar soliman, Ronnie Lott, Will Kassoy, Yasi Samimi

September 16, 2021 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has partnered with financial and data company FactSet to offer “top-down” researchers with key insights into the dynamics of international equity markets. As noted in a release shared with Crowdfund Insider,… Read More

 Tagged alternative data, bijan beheshti, data assets, equity markets, factset, financial data, howard rees, macrobond, research, saas, software as a service

September 16, 2021 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

TomoCredit has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Kapor Capital and KB Investment Inc. (KBIC), a subsidiary of South Korea’s leading consumer bank. TomoCredit is a Fintech that seeks to build a credit history for first-time borrowers. The company… Read More

 Tagged kristy kim, tomocredit, women changing finance

September 16, 2021 @ 10:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Airbase, the spend management platform for firms from founding to IPO, reveals that it has become the “first” spend management service to support local and global subsidiaries and currencies for US-based companies. Firms with entities across the globe and across the US may now take… Read More

 Tagged airbase, lara mcgregor, spend management, thejo kote, united states, us

September 16, 2021 @ 10:11 am By JD Alois  |  

Finovate has published its 2021 award winners that span a broad spectrum of Fintech verticals and areas of recognition.  Finovate is a longstanding event that focuses on early stage Fintech ventures that frequently are interested in raising venture funding. This year’s awards feature excellence in… Read More

 Tagged finovate award winners

September 16, 2021 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Nexpay, an EU-licensed electronic money institution, has partnered with Salt Edge, an open-banking SaaS provider. Nexpay is a Vilnius-based Fintech startup that provides banking infrastructure for the digital assets sector. Currently, Nexpay reports that it is helping over 400 businesses build a range of payments… Read More

 Tagged andrei lisnic, nexpay, open banking, payments, salt edge, uldis teraudkalns

September 16, 2021 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

dopay, a B2B2C payments platform that aims to serve 1.7 billion unbanked workers in emerging markets, has finalized an $18 million Series A round. As mentioned in a release, dopay intends to address a steady and growing demand from businesses for cashless payroll and from… Read More

 Tagged dopay, egypt, financial inclusion, financial services, force over mass capital, frans van eersel, investment round, mbuyu capital, mena, mena region, michiel timmerman, payments, underbanked, wouter volckaert

September 16, 2021 @ 9:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments service provider (PSP) Lemonway has partnered with Tink to facilitate payments to customers across Europe with “Pay By Bank.” Tink is an open banking platform that enables banks, Fintechs and startups to develop data-driven financial services via an API platform. Tink currently connects more… Read More

 Tagged france, jerome albus, lemonway, open banking, simon berger-perrin, tink

September 16, 2021 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Banking Circle, an established payments service provider, has looked into how collaboration can “speed up the real-time payments revolution for corporates.” As noted in a blog post by Banking Circle: “For retail customers, instant payments have come to be expected, but in… Read More

 Tagged banking circle, digital transactions, europe, financial institutions, financial services, instant payments, payments, real-time payments