October 24, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ingenico, the payment acceptance solutions provider, joins forces with Jifiti, the Fintech focused on white-labeled embedded lending, in a new  alliance. This partnership empowers merchants to “offer financing options, provided by accredited financial institutions and enabled by Jifiti, through Ingenico’s innovative cloud-based Payments Platform as… Read More

 Tagged embedded lending, fintech adoption, fintech trends, giulio montemagno, ingenico, jifiti, lending, payment acceptance solutions, payment processing, payments, white-label solutions, yaacov martin

October 24, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Creditly Corp., dba Credit Genie, a digital personal finance platform that has served more than one million Americans, announced the successful completion of an additional funding round, securing $10 million in capital, “bringing its total financing to $21 million.” The funding via the investment round… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, digital personal finance, financial services, funding, funding round, investment round, khosla ventures, personal finance, united states, us

October 24, 2023 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Bundeep Singh Rangar, the CEO of Fineqia, a digital asset business that builds and targets investments in early and growth-stage technology companies that will be a part of the next generation of the Internet. Publicly listed in Canada (CSE: FNQ)… Read More

 Tagged bundeep singh rangar, crypto-assets, digital assets, digital technology, insights, interview, investing, investments, web 3.0, Web3

October 24, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc., the fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids, announced that it has formed a Credit Union Service Organization, Greenlight Financial CUSO, in order “to better serve and support credit unions, their members, and families nationwide.” Through… Read More

 Tagged credit union, credit union service organization, credit unions, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, greenlight, greenlight financial technology, kids, matt wolf, united states, us

October 24, 2023 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, announces a new curation of exclusive benefits for its Ultravioleta customers. In addition to the black credit card offering 1% cashback, users will have access to constantly evolving solutions, “focused… Read More

 Tagged brazil, digital banking, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, latam, latin america, livia chanes, nubank, virtual bank

October 24, 2023 @ 5:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Highnote announces the expansion of their debit, prepaid, and fleet issuing card platform to power consumer credit card products. Designed and developed by Highnote’s payments veterans, the expanded platform offers a comprehensive range of credit capabilities – “from technology that facilitates underwriting, repayment and loan… Read More

 Tagged Business Expansion, credit cards, debit cards, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, highnote, payment card, prepaid cards

October 24, 2023 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the financial super app with more than 35 million customers worldwide, added stocks of 70+ European-listed companies to its investment offering across the European Economic Area (EEA). Investment services in the EEA are “provided by Revolut Securities Europe UAB.” With Revolut, investments in European-listed… Read More

 Tagged digital financial services, eea, europe, european economic area, financial services, financial super app, fintech adoption, fintech apps, fintech trends, investing, investments, revolut, rolandas juteika, stocks

October 24, 2023 @ 7:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank claims that it is “exposing” a “hidden” £7.5 billion a year savings penalty on the country’s hard-pressed SMEs – and is calling “on the wider banking industry to give SMEs a better deal.” While the cost-of-living crisis has led to significant pressure on… Read More

 Tagged allica, allica bank, banking, europe, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, savings, small businesses, smbs, sme's, uk, united kingdom

October 24, 2023 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TAB, the real estate finance and investment house set to have a £500m loan book in 2024, has completed a private securitisation facility with NatWest and Atalaya Capital Management of “up to £300m to support TAB’s lending products.” Both funding partners support TAB’s commitment to… Read More

 Tagged atalaya capital management, europe, finance, investments, lending, loans, natwest, natwest group, real estate, securitization, small businesses, smbs, sme's, tab, uk, united kingdom

October 23, 2023 @ 10:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The scale of Christmas / holiday spending cutbacks due to the cost of living is highlighted in new research from KPMG UK – which shows consumer intention “to cut back on buying gifts, groceries and socializing.” Over 2600 UK consumers were surveyed for KPMG –… Read More

 Tagged consumer behavior, consumer spending, cost of living crisis, europe, kpmg, kpmg uk, research, spending, spending patterns, survey, uk, united kingdom