March 21, 2025 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced it is expanding its credit reporting to Experian to include all of Affirm’s pay-over-time products beginning April 1, 2025. By furnishing information about all of its pay-over-time transactions… Read More

 Tagged affirm, bnpl, credit, experian, pay over time, payments

March 21, 2025 @ 1:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments company, announced that its Intelligent Acceptance product, an AI-powered engine designed to help enterprise businesses boost their payment performance, generated over “$10 billion in additional merchant revenue.” Powered by over 20 billion data points and insights from Checkout.com’s global network, Intelligent… Read More

 Tagged ai, checkout.com, digital payments, digital transactions, e-commerce

March 21, 2025 @ 11:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kraken, which claims to be one of the “longest-standing, most liquid and secure” crypto platforms serving “more than 15 million” clients globally, has entered into an agreement to acquire NinjaTrader, the U.S. retail futures trading platform, for $1.5 billion, subject to certain purchase price adjustments…. Read More

 Tagged acquisition, digital assets, kraken, ninjatrader, trading

March 21, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group has announced that it has become the first UK-headquartered bank to work with OpenAI as part of a collaboration that supports its strategic focus on bank-wide simplification, which includes deploying AI to meet customers’ needs more effectively and to “increase productivity and efficiency… Read More

 Tagged ai, natwest, natwest group, openai, uk, united kingdom

March 20, 2025 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has joined forces with the Commercial Bank of Dubai (CBD) to train the bank’s employees in the fields of data and AI. As the first bank in the UAE to launch an enterprise-wide data literacy program, CBD says that it is setting… Read More

 Tagged accenture, ai, banking, dubai, uae

March 20, 2025 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Global Synchronizer Foundation, in conjunction with the Canton Network, the public layer one blockchain network with control and privacy, today announced that Goldman Sachs, Hong Kong FMI Services Limited, and Moody’s Ratings have joined the Global Synchronizer Foundation (GSF) as its newest members. The… Read More

 Tagged Canton Network, global synchronizer foundation, goldman sachs, hong kong fmi servicse, moody's ratings

March 20, 2025 @ 8:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tala, the global financial infrastructure company claiming to deliver accessible financial services, is pleased to announce the closing of a $150 million debt facility with Neuberger Berman, a global investment management firm. This facility will support the company’s rapidly growing business in Mexico. Tala intends… Read More

 Tagged debt, financial infrastructure, mexico, neuberger berman, tala

March 20, 2025 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Multiply Mortgage, the financial technology company that is reportedly making homeownership accessible via employer benefits, announced it raised a $23.5 million Series A funding round, led by Kleiner Perkins. A*, Box Group, Mischief, and Workshop also participated, “bringing the company’s total funding to $27 million.”… Read More

 Tagged funding round, mortgages, multiply mortages

March 20, 2025 @ 12:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Two financial fraud experts say the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, needs to address the growing issue of financial fraud during next week’s Spring Statement. Silvija Krupena, Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit at RedCompass Labs, and Jonathan Frost, Director of Global Advisory at… Read More

 Tagged biocatch, fraud, Rachel Reeves, redcompass labs, spring statement, uk, united kingdom

March 20, 2025 @ 10:51 am By JD Alois  |  

A new platform called JikoNet aims to establish a network enabling institutions to settle high-volume transactions in real time while minimizing counterparty and liquidity risks. JikoNet leverages Jiko’s bank ledger for seamless USD transactions with instant T-bill trades and enables 24/7 real-time settlement for digital… Read More

 Tagged Jiko, JikoNet, stephane lintern, t-bills