October 17, 2024 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Storfund has deepened its partnership with Mangopay, a modular and flexible payment infrastructure provider for platforms. Building on the two companies’ established partnership, Storfund will now leverage Mangopay’s embedded wallet, local accounts, and FX solutions in order to enhance the support it provides on… Read More

 Tagged mangopay, payments, storfund, wallet

October 16, 2024 @ 9:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Plaid has recently launched its Gateway Partner Program in order to drive open banking compliance. Plaid’s blog post noted that the financial services industry is preparing for the release of the final Section 1033 rule mandating that financial institutions provide consumers with “secure… Read More

 Tagged compliance, fintech adoption, open banking, plaid

October 16, 2024 @ 9:24 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Strise, an anti-money laundering (AML) automation company, launched The AML Megaminds Report, a resource featuring insights from more than 80 financial crime experts. It includes tidbits from more than 60 hours of conversations from The Laundry, a money laundering podcast. The report uses… Read More

 Tagged aml, kyc, Marit Rødevand, Patrick Skjennum, Strise

October 16, 2024 @ 5:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brex, the corporate card and spend management platform for startups and enterprises, and Navan, the solution that makes travel and expense easy,  announced a new joint offering with the launch of BrexPay for Navan. This integrated business travel and payments solution brings together Navan’s travel… Read More

 Tagged brex, payments, travel

October 16, 2024 @ 5:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paxos, the regulated blockchain and tokenization infrastructure platform, introduced its new stablecoin payments platform. Stripe’s Pay with Crypto product is powered by Paxos’ stablecoin payments infrastructure, making it easier for merchants to accept stablecoin payments. As a regulated provider of blockchain infrastructure, Paxos’ stablecoin payments… Read More

 Tagged digital currencies, digital payments, paxos, stablecoins

October 16, 2024 @ 11:07 am By JD Alois  |  

At the end of this month (October 30), the Labour government will reveal its economic plan during the Autumn Budget presented to Parliament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, who has been in charge since this past July, will share how Labour will address… Read More

 Tagged autumn budget, curve, keir starmer, perspective, Rachel Reeves, shachar bialick, taxes, uk, united kingdom

October 16, 2024 @ 9:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

FlexFactor, a provider of decline recovery solutions for e-commerce brands, has announced the completion of its $16.8 Series A funding round. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional participation from seed investors. Annual global e-commerce sales exceed $5 trillion, yet failed checkout payments… Read More

 Tagged ai, bessemer venture partners, charles birnbaum, Elio Vitucci, FlexFactor, series a, Ze'ev Shoval

October 16, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna is reporting a growth milestone in its company history: more than 100,000 retail partners were added since the month of August 2023, expanding its total network to 600,000+ merchants. Merchants—large and small—are now reportedly choosing Klarna because the network creates a good customer experience… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, fintech adoption, klarna, virtual payments

October 16, 2024 @ 7:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, Vice Chairman of Partners Capital and former CENTRE Consortium CEO David Puth, and Ripple Executive Chair Chris Larsen have reportedly joined the RLUSD Advisory Board. Ripple, the provider of digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, announced its exchange partners and… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, digital assets, fdic, ripple, stablecoins

October 16, 2024 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Axyon AI, an Italian AI fintech firm which enhances asset manager performance by delivering alpha opportunities via AI-based rankings and AI model strategies, has reportedly closed a further € 2.1 million in funding. This latest investment round had the participation of the US-based venture capital… Read More

 Tagged axyon, funding round, italy