September 15, 2023 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lunar doubles net interest and fee income in the first half of 2023 “compared to the same period last year.” At the same time, Lunar continues its investments in “developing the business and the product range to become the best everyday bank in the Nordics.”… Read More

 Tagged banking, banking challenger, challenger bank, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, lunar, nordics, revenue growth

September 15, 2023 @ 8:17 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Apiture, a provider of digital banking solutions, announced the introduction of family banking through a partnership with Greenlight, a fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. Through the Greenlight for Banks program, Greenlight’s family finance app is now… Read More

 Tagged apiture, chris babcock, financial literacy, greenlight, matt wolf

September 14, 2023 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) are expanding their partnership to help organizations reinvent their finance functions to be more agile, data-driven and customer-centric. The companies are collaborating “to develop a suite of data-led, composable finance solutions that can be configured and reconfigured to… Read More

 Tagged accenture, Business Expansion, data, finance, financial services, salesforce

September 14, 2023 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance collaborate “to spur skill development in the regional financial sector” Described as a “first-of-its-kind” collaboration, Mastercard and the Bahrain Institute of Banking & Finance will aim to “initiate a renewed understanding of the latest industry… Read More

 Tagged bahrain, financial services, mastercard, mena, mena region, middle east

September 14, 2023 @ 8:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To better equip financial institutions’ need for faster data, more control and bigger impact throughout the analytics lifecycle, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) launched TruIQ Data Enrichment. The solution provides unlimited, on-demand access “to pseudonymized TransUnion credit data within a customer’s private environment.” TruIQ Data Enrichment includes… Read More

 Tagged analytics, data, data analysis, financial institutions, financial services, jason laky, transunion

September 14, 2023 @ 8:52 pm By Michael Wong  |  

ADGM (Abu Dhabi Global Market), the International Financial Centre in the UAE’s capital, has showcased impressive growth during the first half of 2023, solidifying Abu Dhabi’s position as a ‘falcon economy’ and a predominant financial powerhouse in the GCC region. The number of investment firms… Read More

 Tagged abu dhabi, abu dhabi global market, adgm, financial, fintech, gcc

September 14, 2023 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fountain, the labor applicant tracking system (ATS) and provider of hiring automation software for frontline workforces, announced it has integrated workforce payments platform Branch in order “to make paying new workers fast and scalable for hiring companies.” Branch claims that it is “the first and… Read More

 Tagged Atif Siddiqi, Branch, payments

September 14, 2023 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealthfront clients have reportedly earned over half a billion dollars in interest year to date from our high-yield Cash Account offering 4.80% APY. According to a note from Wealthfront, high-yield accounts have “surged in popularity this year, but not all of these accounts provide the… Read More

 Tagged dave myszewski, digital financial services, financial services, fintech adoption, fintech trends, united states, us, wealth management, wealthfront

September 14, 2023 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, a global cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial services organizations, is unveiling a strategic partnership with eflow, a prominent provider of regulatory compliance solutions for the industry. The partnership represents “a significant step forward in TS Imagine‘s commitment… Read More

 Tagged compliance, cross-asset provider, financial services, investment portfolios, risk management solutions, trading, ts imagine

September 14, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) announced the acquisition of its Bridge built by Citi® platform (“Bridge”) by Foro Holdings, Inc. (Foro), a Charlotte-based commercial lending services provider. As part of the transaction, Citi contributed Bridge to Foro and “joined Foro’s investors, including TTV Capital (TTV), US Bank… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, Bridge+, charlotte, citi, Commercial Lending, emily turner, financial services, institutional clients, united states, us