December 11, 2025 @ 10:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) ThinkTECH Accelerator has invited InvestFi to participate in the program. InvestiFi, a digital investment platform designed to allow for trading to and from deposit accounts, enabling credit unions and community banks to retain more assets and attract new account… Read More

 Tagged independent community bankers of america, InvestFi, ThinkTECH Accelerator

December 11, 2025 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Mollie has signed an agreement to acquire GoCardless, a UK-based bank payment company that offers solutions for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts using direct debit and open banking. The terms of the deal were not revealed, but reports… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, EU, gocardless, merger, mollie, netherlands, payments, uk

December 11, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As major jurisdictions across the globe continue exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), 2025 has seen a notable shift in emphasis from relatively early retail-payment pilots toward broader infrastructure, cross-border initiatives as well as strategic policy objectives. For the United… Read More

 Tagged cbdcs, central bank, digital currency, uk, uk finance

December 11, 2025 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, a payments platform, says that it has secured a payments services license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Zilch states that the licensing marks a key milestone for them, removing the reliance on third-parties and “enabling the business to build payments methods in-house, develop… Read More

 Tagged fca, payments, uk, visa, zilch

December 11, 2025 @ 6:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) has recently announced the launch of Income Qualify, which is described as being a new product that delivers income and employment insights from The Work Number in order to mortgage lenders during the prequalification and pre-approval phase as “a value add alongside… Read More

 Tagged data, digitalization, equifax, lending

December 11, 2025 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender LoanTube (trading as Tiger Lion Financial Limited) says its credit marketplace is now available via ChatGPT. Of note, LoanTube’s ratings on TrustPilo are pretty good. According to a release, LoanTabe states that loan applications can be completed via chat in a “conversational interface…. Read More

 Tagged chatgpt, loantube, online lending, uk, united kingdom

December 10, 2025 @ 11:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced the release of their latest research findings on 24×5 trading, entitled “The Shift to 24×5 Trading: What It Means for U.S. Equity Markets.” The report details the… Read More

 Tagged digitalization, dtcc

December 10, 2025 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is pleased to announce an expansion of its index portfolio with the launch of the HKEX Tech 100 Index (HKEX Tech 100), the Group’s first Hong Kong equity index that underscores its ongoing investment in building further on… Read More

 Tagged etfs, hkex, hong kong, investments

December 10, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Setu by Pine Labs has recently announced the launch of India’s agentic bill-payments experience, designed to address key challenges in bill payments: the fear of incorrect charges and the burden of missing important due dates. Although actually paying a bill takes minutes, keeping track of… Read More

 Tagged ai, fintech, payments, pine labs

December 10, 2025 @ 7:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the inaugural J.D. Power U.S. Mortgage Servicer Digital Experience Study, slower industry-wide adoption of mobile apps produces a decidedly uneven digital user experience across different mortgage servicers. While some mortgage servicing apps are delivering on industry best practices, others are lagging significantly behind… Read More

 Tagged Bruce Gehrke, digital UX, J.D. Power, Jon Sundberg, mortgage apps