October 6, 2025 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A financial skills gap is said to be undermining the resilience and overall growth of small businesses across the United Kingdom, according to the latest research released by Xero, the global small business platform. The study, conducted by Censuswide and Opinium, reportedly exposes a lack… Read More

 Tagged research, smbs, uk, united kingdom

October 6, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank Monzo appears to be gearing up for a push into the US market by considering a fresh bid for a U.S. banking charter. This comes years after the Fintech company shelved a prior attempt in 2021, when regulators seemingly signaled low chances… Read More

 Tagged bank charter, digital banking, monzo, uk, us

October 6, 2025 @ 6:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, the intelligent finance platform, announced the upcoming launch of native stablecoin payments. This will make Brex the global corporate card provider that enables instant balance payments with stablecoins. With this launch, customers with a Brex business account “will be able to accept stablecoins with… Read More

 Tagged brex, finance, fintech, stablecoins

October 6, 2025 @ 6:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Santander Corporate & Investment Banking announced that its U.S. broker-dealer, Santander US Capital Markets LLC, entered a strategic alliance with healthcare-focused Nephron Research LLC. This is reportedly Santander CIB’s third equity research alliance in the United States, following agreements entered with Telsey Advisory Group LLC,… Read More

 Tagged equity research, europe, santander, spain

October 6, 2025 @ 1:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mastercard has extended its strategic commercial partnership with Smile ID, an identity verification provider in Africa, to accelerate the rollout of secure digital identity solutions across the continent. This partnership will enable banks, fintechs, mobile money operators and other enterprises to onboard new customers faster,… Read More

 Tagged africa, digital id, Mark Straub, mastercard, Selin Bahadirli, Smile ID

October 6, 2025 @ 12:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

More than half of UK adults now use mobile wallets, according to a report from UK Finance. Recent figures from the Fintech and financial services industry trade body reveal how consumer behavior and payment habits in the UK continue to evolve and how they are… Read More

 Tagged payments, uk, uk finance, united kingdom, wallets

October 5, 2025 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealthfront, a Fintech that claims to be “different” catering to digital natives, has filed an S-1 registration statement with the Securities and Exchnage Commission. The company plans to trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “WLTH.” Wealthfront joins a growing group of Fintechs that… Read More

 Tagged ipo, sec, wealth management, wealthfront, wealthtech

October 5, 2025 @ 3:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Feedzai, an AI-native RiskOps platform for financial crime prevention, announced this week that it is now valued at more than $2 billion following an investment round of approximately $75 million. The new funding welcomes institutional investors Lince Capital, Iberis Capital, and Explorer Investments, with renewed… Read More

 Tagged feedzai, fraud prevention, Lince Capital, nuno sebastiao, Vasco Pereira Coutinho

October 5, 2025 @ 3:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Precoro, a procurement centralization and automation platform, today announced the launch of its AI Assistant, a native AI-powered chatbot that gives finance, procurement, and AP teams instant insights from their purchasing data. Instead of digging through dashboards or waiting on analysts, users can now simply… Read More

 Tagged AI Assistant, Andrew Zhyvolovych, Precoro, procurement

October 5, 2025 @ 1:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced the acquisition of Victor Technologies, Inc., which is described as a cloud-native, API-first provider of innovative direct-to-core embedded payments solutions, from MVB Financial Corp. (Nasdaq: MVBF). The acquisition expands Jack Henry’s capabilities in the Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) market,… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, fintech, jack henry, victor technlogies