September 19, 2023 @ 4:59 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to a recent survey, 58% of US consumers expect all payments will be digital in the near future. This percentage increases to 67% when polling a younger demographic – more specifically, Millennials. Banking platform provider Temenos (SIX: TEMN) surveyed  2000 adults about their purchasing… Read More

 Tagged payments, temenos

September 19, 2023 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced a strategic collaboration with Astra, a technology company that offers advanced instant payment solutions. With Astra’s technology, Treasury Prime customers now “have access to instant account funding and instant disbursements via push-to-card capabilities.” This feature marks a… Read More

 Tagged astra, digital payments, digital technology, digital transactions, digitalization, embedded banking, gil akos, instant payments, mark vermeersch, treasury prime

September 19, 2023 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) is pleased to announce that Matt Billings is joining the team as VP and President of Robinhood Financial LLC and Robinhood Securities, LLC effective as of – September 18, 2023. In this role, Matt will focus on furthering the firm’s commitment “to putting safety… Read More

 Tagged financial services, new appointments, robinhood, steve quirk

September 19, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credolab, a smartphone and web behavioural data analytics platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Circulo de Credito, a fast-growing Credit Information Society (Credit Bureau) in Mexico. The partnership aims to bring more financial inclusion to Mexico by “providing innovative credit, risk and fraud scoring… Read More

 Tagged analytics, círculo de crédito, credit bureau, credolab, data, data analytics, latam, latin america, mexico, smartphone data, South America

September 19, 2023 @ 3:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three of the world’s largest financial market infrastructures (FMIs) – DTCC, Clearstream, and Euroclear – released a paper on the state of the industry’s digital asset evolution. The paper calls for increased collaboration “to progress an ecosystem that currently includes fragmented standards, varying regulatory treatment,… Read More

 Tagged clearstream, digital assets, digital technology, distributed ledger technology, dlt, dtcc, euroclear, euroclear group, financial markets, infrastructure, innovation, jennifer peve, jens hachmeister, research

September 19, 2023 @ 11:52 am By JD Alois  |  

Swift, a global financial messaging service that is used by just about everyone to transfer value, has partnered with Wise (LSE:WISE) – a stealth bank that got its start in low-cost transfers. According to a statement by Swift, the partnership will enable users to complete… Read More

 Tagged belgium, payments, steve naudé, swift, Thierry Chilosi, transfers, uk, united kingdom, wise

September 19, 2023 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gatehouse Bank, the Shariah-compliant challenger bank, has released new research demonstrating that the UK’s money mindset is shifting towards saving. The research looked at UK adults’ attitudes towards money, “assessing the key factors that influence them, why they look to save or spend their money… Read More

 Tagged banking, banking challenger, challenger bank, europe, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, research, savings, sharia'h compliant, uk, united kingdom

September 19, 2023 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ThinCats, an alternative lender, has agreed a new warehouse facility with Citi and Barclays Bank PLC supported by a guarantee through the British Business Bank’s ENABLE Guarantee program. This new facility supports lending of “up to £696m for mid-sized smaller businesses in the UK, making… Read More

 Tagged alternative lender, barclays, barclays bank, british business bank, citi, lending, ravi anand, reinald de monchy, thincats, uk, united kingdom, warehouse facility

September 19, 2023 @ 6:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) licensed “Al-tizam for electronic insurance brokerage” and “Altheqa Insurance Brokers” in order to “provide insurance aggregation services (soft launch).” With Al-tizam and Altheqa, there will “be five authorized insurance aggregation companies operating in Saudi Arabia.” This decision reflects SAMA‘s endeavor… Read More

 Tagged insurance, mena, mena region, saudi arabia, saudi central bank

September 18, 2023 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite a challenging economic environment, 101 new businesses were created every hour across the UK in the first half of 2023, according to research by iwoca, one of Europe’s small business lenders. Analysis of Companies House data reveals “that over 436,000 businesses were registered in… Read More

 Tagged Business Expansion, europe, financial services, iwoca, london, research, seema desai, small businesses, smbs, sme's, uk, united kingdom