November 17, 2023 @ 8:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages, the UK’s platform for mortgages, has delivered a mortgage offer in just four days “for a Key Worker looking to purchase their first home.” The borrower, a nurse, was “seeking finance for a residential property in Tilbury, for her first home.” As noted… Read More

 Tagged europe, homebuyers, key workers, lendinvest, lendinvest mortgages, mortgages, paula mercer, uk, united kingdom

November 16, 2023 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, the provider of financial crime and risk management solutions, has partnered with CoreCard, the international provider of prepaid and credit technology solutions and processing services to banks and the financial technology and services market. The partnership will enhance CoreCard’s fraud detection and prevention capabilities… Read More

 Tagged credit technology, feedzai, financial crime, financial technology, prepaid services, risk management, transaction processing

November 16, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. announced a partnership with Ant Group to work on a pioneering liquidity management project, “exploring technology innovations on tokenized deposits which will improve efficiency and speed of global fund settlements.” Banking Circle infrastructure and the blockchain platform “developed by Ant Group will… Read More

 Tagged ant group, banking circle, digital technology, europe, fintech adoption, fintech trends, laust bertelsen, liquidity management, luxembourg, web 3.0, Web3

November 16, 2023 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nucleus Financial Platforms, one of the UK’s independent, adviser platform groups, launches the UK Retirement Confidence Index. The research study has reportedly “involved surveying more than 2,200 UK adults aged 50 and over by YouGov.” It’s based on responses “to the central question of how… Read More

 Tagged europe, financial planning, financial services, insights, nucleus, nucleus financial platforms, research, uk, united kingdom

November 16, 2023 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Over three-quarters (77%) of senior finance executives globally expect the economic environment to improve over the coming year, “up considerably from two-thirds (66%) in 2022.” That is according to the latest Future of Finance Study by SIX – an annual survey “that canvasses the opinions… Read More

 Tagged economic challenges, europe, financial services, insights, jos dijsselhof, research, Research Report, Research Study, six, survey, switzerland

November 16, 2023 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD)  is raising interest rates once again for Gold members, which is reportedly 8x higher than “the national average savings rate.” As noted in a blog post, the platform is raising the Robinhood Gold rate again – this time to 5.0% APY, their… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, financial services, robinhood, savings

November 16, 2023 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DTCC, the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced that DTCC ALERT, the industry’s “largest” online global database for the maintenance and communication of account and standing settlement instructions (SSIs), has reached a key milestone “with over 15 million SSIs, including… Read More

 Tagged dtcc, financial services, milestone, post-trade market infrastructure

November 16, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is introducing new digital capabilities to support consumers in their car shopping and financing journey. Bank of America clients can now “get prequalified for auto financing to learn how much they may be able to borrow and estimate their terms,… Read More

 Tagged auto financing, bank of america, bofa, car financing, Customer Experience, cx, digital capabilities, digital tools, digitalization, financial services, shopping, united states, us

November 16, 2023 @ 12:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed rules to regulate Big Tech and their Fintech services. The CFPB is targeting firms like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and others. According to the statement issued by the CFPB, the agency seeks to regulated digital wallets… Read More

 Tagged Big Tech, casey jennings, cfpb, consumer financial protection bureau, rohit chopra, seward and kissel

November 16, 2023 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank launches a new £70million commitment to support smaller businesses from all sectors right across Northern Ireland. The Investment Fund for Northern Ireland (IFNI) aims “to drive sustainable economic growth by supporting innovation and creating local opportunities for new and scaling businesses… Read More

 Tagged british business bank, digital financial services, europe, financial services, financing, funding, investment fund, ireland, louis taylor, northern ireland, small businesses, smbs, sme's