October 12, 2024 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the fintech platform driving the alternative investment marketplace for the wealth management industry, announced the launch of iCapital’s Multi-Investment Workflow tool. Available to wealth managers on iCapital Marketplace, this tool reportedly streamlines the investing experience by allowing financial advisors to process “multiple alternative investments”… Read More

 Tagged fintech adoption, icapital

October 12, 2024 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, announced it has now onboarded its first European clients to the Eurosystem’s payment rail, T2. The fintech clearing bank welcomes OpenPayd, Pay Perform (which trades as Orbital), and Transact Payments, which will all benefit from real-time… Read More

 Tagged clearbank, digital financial services, europe, fintech adoption

October 12, 2024 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Profitability of Germany’s small and medium-sized banks and savings banks (less significant institutions, or LSIs) improved considerably in 2023. This, according to an extensive update from BaFin. BaFin noted in a recent report that institutions in Germany have achieved stronger earnings during the period of… Read More

 Tagged bafin, banking, europe, germany, insights, Research Study, sme's

October 11, 2024 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex announced that Airwallex Capital is now licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) in order to offer asset management services, paving the way for the upcoming launch of its Airwallex Yield in Hong Kong early next year. As explained in a… Read More

 Tagged airwallex, digital financial servies, fintech adoption, fintech trends, hong kong

October 11, 2024 @ 6:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treezor, the enabler of Banking-as-a-Service, became one of the first BaaS providers to obtain PCI DSS certification for card issuing. This certification “testifies” to Treezor’s operational and technical capacity to comply with the most “demanding” security standards and paves the way for developing new card-related… Read More

 Tagged baas, banking, security, treezor

October 11, 2024 @ 5:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quartr, a software and data provider enabling qualitative public market research for finance and investor relations (IR) professionals, announced the closing of a $6 million investment from Altos Ventures. Altos is a San Francisco-based venture capital firm that is reportedly known for its uncommonly patient… Read More

 Tagged altos ventures, data, finance, quartr, software

October 11, 2024 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments provider, announced a partnership with Octopus, Hong Kong’s “homegrown” global fintech, in order to enable online payment for customers of Hong Kong’s leading payment choice – becoming the global payment service provider (PSP) to add Octopus as a payment option at… Read More

 Tagged checkout.com, digital financial services, digital transactions, fintech adoption

October 11, 2024 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK Fintech firm Pockit and the pan-European fintech Monese announce that they have agreed terms for Pockit to acquire Monese,a deal that’s currently subject to Change in Control approval by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), creating the fintech for the “financially underserved” and… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, fintech adoption, monese, pockit, uk, united kingdom

October 11, 2024 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kate Hampton, Chief Strategy Officer at NMI, recently shared her views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. As noted in the update shared with CI, embedded payments are revolutionizing the financial landscape, with major companies like Google Chrome leading the way. By integrating embedded payment technology,… Read More

 Tagged embedded payments, fintech trends, insights, interview, kate hampton, nmi, women changing finance

October 11, 2024 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banked has reportedly gained foothold on Australia’s real-time payments market with the acquisition of Waave, sparking strategic partnership with Chemist Warehouse. Banked’s acquisition of Waave underscores commitment to building a truly global Pay by Bank platform. Waave’s work with Chemist Warehouse in developing Pay by… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, australia, banked, payments, waave