October 19, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a red hot sector of Fintech. Combine this with banking as a service (BaaS) and you see two dominant trends in the transition from legacy banks to Fintech everywhere with embedded services and on-demand finance. Research and Markets predicts… Read More

 Tagged affirm, alchemy, baas, banking as a service, bnpl, buy now pay later, goldman sachs, greensky, kuber, marcus, maxdecisions, timoth li

October 19, 2021 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), an international provider of payments and financial services tech solutions, announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire BentoBox, a digital marketing and commerce platform provider that offers a seamless diner experience “dedicated to accelerating growth and helping restaurants seamlessly… Read More

 Tagged bentbox, clover, digital commerce, digital marketing, dining, e-commerce, financial services, fiserv, frank bisignano, krystle mobayeni, united states, us

October 19, 2021 @ 10:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Silver Lake, an international firm focused on technology investing, and Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced an agreement in which Silver Lake will “make a long-term strategic investment in Euroclear Holding SA/NV by acquiring ICE’s 9.85% stake… Read More

 Tagged christian lucas, euroclear, ice, jeffery sprecher, sliver lake

October 19, 2021 @ 9:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Previse announced on October 18, 2021 the integration of Mastercard Cross-Border Services – an international push payments platform that allows funds to be sent seamlessly, securely and with “certainty” to any account – into Previse’s InstantPay platform. The collaboration will “enable… Read More

 Tagged digital payments, mastercard, paul christensen, payments, previse, ron shultz, small businesses, smbs, sme's

October 19, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIBR, the connected virtual banking platform, has launched so that it can serve European SMEs, by combining the stability of a bank with the agility and technology of a Fintech service provider. Based in the Netherlands, FIBR is focused on lending to European SMEs. The… Read More

 Tagged banking, digital banking, europe, fibr, financial services, jaap boersma, lending, netherlands, oren bass, small businesses, smbs, sme's, uk, united kingdom, virtual bank, virtual banking

October 19, 2021 @ 8:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Following a Series A funding round of $20 million last year, payments Fintech Primer has closed on a Series B funding round of $50 million. According to a note from the company, Primer received a valuation of $425 million. ICONIQ Growth led the funding with… Read More

 Tagged alex noughton, gabriel le roux, paul anthony, payments, primer, ray luo, uk, united kingdom

October 19, 2021 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

GoHenry, a pioneer in kids’ debit cards, money management, and financial education, has introduced Money Missions, which aims to accelerate the firm’s ambitions to bridge the gap in early financial literacy for Gen Z and Gen Alpha “with a gamified educational experience integrated into the… Read More

 Tagged alex zivoder, europe, financial management, financial services, gohenry, literacy, london, money management, money missions, payments, uk, united kingdom, united states, us

October 19, 2021 @ 2:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Etcho, which wants to empower and motivate anyone to “tailor their investments in a way that matters uniquely to them,” has raised 113% (£198,719) of its £175,000 target from 174 investors via Crowdcube (at the time of writing). There are currently 25 days left in… Read More

 Tagged crowdcube, crowdfunding, etcho, europe, investment portfolio, sdg, sustainable development goals, uk, united kingdom

October 18, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos Transact Core Banking will be supporting product innovation and greater scalability and overall efficiency for Pakistan’s virtual payments platform Easypaisa. Telenor Microfinance Bank, which is the operator of Pakistan’s digital payments platform Easypaisa, has officially gone live on Temenos’ Core banking platform with NdcTech… Read More

 Tagged ammara masood, banking, digital banking, digital financial services, digital payments, digital technology, digital transformation, easypaisa, financial services, jean-paul mergeai, m. mudassar aqil, ndctech, pakistan, payments, telenor microfinance bank, temenos, virtual banking

October 18, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) signed an agreement with Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the international financial center in the MEASA region, in order to collaborate on the development and growth of the UAE’s Fintech sector “through joint initiatives and activities.” The agreement… Read More

 Tagged central bank, difc, dubai, fintech adoption, fintech trends, mena, mena region, middle east, reserve bank, uae, united arab emirates