March 25, 2024 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking for the global financial services industry, announced that the largest cooperative financial group in North America, Desjardins Group, will implement nCino’s Automated Spreading Solution, powered by nCino IQ (nIQ), expanding their partnership with nCino “to further… Read More

 Tagged banking, cloud, fintech adoption, nCino

March 25, 2024 @ 8:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

dLocal, a cross-border payment platform specializing in high-growth markets, recently announced that Mark Ortiz has been appointed chief financial officer. Ortiz will report directly to dLocal’s CEO, Pedro Arnt, overseeing dLocal’s accounting, financial planning and analysis, financial reporting internal audit, SEC reporting, tax, credit, risk,… Read More

 Tagged dlocal, Mark Ortiz, payments, Pedro Arnt

March 25, 2024 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank N26 recently announced the appointment of Mayur Kamat as its new Chief Product Officer. Mayur is said to have “a proven track record leading product teams and building new solutions at some of the world’s biggest technology companies.” He reportedly brings with him… Read More

 Tagged banking, berlin, digital bank, germany, mayur kamat, n26, new appointments

March 24, 2024 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has today announced the launch of its flexible payment options on boots.com and in the Boots app in the UK and Ireland. This latest announcement follows the launch of Klarna in-store at Boots in 2022. Through… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, klarna, open banking

March 24, 2024 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) released the Spring 2024 Edition of its Biannual Threats Report, which outlines the top payment threats impacting consumers and businesses around the world. The report points to increasingly organized, sophisticated threat actors “targeting the most vulnerable point in the payments’ ecosystem: humans.”… Read More

 Tagged fraud, scams, visa

March 24, 2024 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments Canada is seeking input on proposed changes to how bill payment remittances are processed through the Automated Clearing Settlement System (ACSS). This includes the potential impact the changes “could have on billers, consumers who make bill payments and any financial institution or organization that… Read More

 Tagged canada, consultation, fintech adoption, payments, payments canada

March 24, 2024 @ 5:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Built, a software platform designed to connect and simplify doing business in real estate, is launching an expansion of its platform to meet the specific needs of real estate owners and developers to improve the movement of money and decision making. Built’s new product for… Read More

 Tagged built, fintech adoption, real estate

March 24, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Euroclear has announced an agreement with iCapital, an alternative investment marketplace for the wealth management industry. With this partnership, Euroclear’s clients “will gain enhanced access to a broader range of alternative investments, including private equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, and hedge funds.” The iCapital… Read More

 Tagged euroclear, icapital, investing

March 24, 2024 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NX Technologies, a fintech company that operates the automotive payment management platform bezahl.de, announced that it has raised 22 million euros ($24,027,000) in series B funding, led by PayPal Ventures, the corporate venture arm of global payments and commerce company PayPal. With its core product… Read More

 Tagged funding round, nx technologies, payments, PayPal Ventures

March 24, 2024 @ 5:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zurich Insurance Group has announced the launch of its first European Long-Term Investment Fund (ELTIF 2.01), aimed at providing individual investors and life insurance customers with access to opportunities in the asset class of private debt, “traditionally only available to professional investors.” The Fund is… Read More

 Tagged asset management, europe, pemberton, zurich insurance group