March 24, 2024 @ 5:40 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Personal finance app operator Copilot announced that it has successfully raised $6 million in a Series A funding round anchored by venture capital firm Adjacent. The round is aimed at expanding the app’s reach across all platforms and bolstering its artificial intelligence and product development… Read More

 Tagged copilot, personal finance

March 23, 2024 @ 4:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Australia’s payments provider, Zeller, and the global enabler of restaurant POS systems, Oracle, have come together to provide restaurateurs with a complete solution for managing orders and securely taking payments at speed. For food and beverage venues across the country, this new integration that connects… Read More

 Tagged australia, oracle, payments, zeller

March 23, 2024 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DBS Bank, together with J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), has debuted Asia’s first global investment portfolio that not only automatically calibrates its asset allocation to an individual’s life stage and retirement timeline (also known as a “glidepath”), but also allows investors to automate their drawdowns… Read More

 Tagged asset management, dbs, investments, jpmorgan, singapore

March 23, 2024 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced an expansion of its Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) partnership by powering payments for retailers using Just Walk Out technology in Australia and Canada. Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology is “designed to be an effortless shopping experience. The guest enters… Read More

 Tagged amazon, fintech trends, payments, stripe

March 23, 2024 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New analysis conducted by the Centre for Economics and Business Research, on behalf of PensionBee, reveals that over £50 billion pounds in hard-earned pensions are at risk of being misplaced in abandoned accounts or scattered across multiple lost pots. The new research estimates that “at… Read More

 Tagged pensionbee, pensions, uk, united kingdom

March 23, 2024 @ 8:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC), an industry association representing Fintech companies and banks, this week announced that financial benefits platform Wagestream has become its newest member. “Wagestream has done a phenomenal job of scaling its financial wellbeing approach to span multiple different benefits for workers,… Read More

 Tagged american fintech council, earned wage access, ewa, Phil Goldfeder, Wagestream

March 23, 2024 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FV Bank, the U.S. licensed global digital bank that offers traditional and digital asset banking and custody services, announced an expansion in its deposit capabilities that gives clients the option to deposit euros into their USD bank account. In addition to USD deposits, account holders… Read More

 Tagged digital assets, digital banking, financial services, fv bank, puerto rico

March 23, 2024 @ 2:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest will work with JS Group, an innovative partner to universities with a track record of improving the delivery of specialist student funds and of strengthening student engagement, to support more students as they progress within the UK’s higher education system. It’s said to be… Read More

 Tagged education, financial services, natwest, uk

March 22, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Micropayment, the Berlin-based payment processor, has partnered with Tink, a payment services and data enrichment platform, to add Pay by Bank to its payments offering. Operating primarily in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Micropayment works with merchants across industries “including fundraising and non-profit, digital services, gaming… Read More

 Tagged germany, micropayment, payments, tink

March 22, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial information provider, and BITA, a provider of indexing technology and services, announced that SIX has made a strategic investment in BITA to strengthen a series of existing joint projects and accelerate the expansion of SIX’s global benchmark platform. Existing BITA shareholders,… Read More

 Tagged europe, investments, six, switzerland