August 22, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two of the most “trusted” brands in Web3 and payments integrate in order to help users explore crypto. The teams at PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Ledger are pleased to announce “an on-ramp integration with PayPal, allowing users to explore crypto in a convenient, simple and secure… Read More

 Tagged Crypto Adoption, Crypto Transactions, Customer Experience, cx, fintech adoption, fintech apps, fintech trends, integration, ledger, pascal gauthier, paypal, web 3.0, Web3

August 22, 2023 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

EchoPay and Token.io have partnered to offer “account to account” (A2A) payments for wholesale merchants in the UK. Token.io is an open banking provider for the payments industry. The company reports that it processes payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas,… Read More

 Tagged payments, todd clyde, token.io, uk, united kingdom

August 22, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eltropy, the digital conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), announced a partnership with Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT), a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the U.S. The Eltropy-Alkami partnership will “allow more financial institutions to create personalized account-holder experiences for… Read More

 Tagged alkami, alkami technology, cloud, community financial institutions, digital banking, digital conversations, digital technology, digital transformation, digitalization, eltropy, financial institutions, financial services, jason smith, united states, us, virtual bank

August 22, 2023 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The global economic slowdown has hit SaaS startups hard, according to an update from Capchase. With their customers looking for ways to reduce costs, many have “experienced increased churn, longer sales cycles, and tougher price negotiations.” But these effects have “not been felt evenly across… Read More

 Tagged capchase, economic uncertainty, recession, research, saas, software as a service, startups

August 22, 2023 @ 11:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Velo Payments, Inc. is acquiring YapStone Inc., a payment processing platform in the short-term and vacation rental industry, known for its payment solution, The definitive merger agreement signifies “a strategic alignment of vision and technology, combining Yapstone’s established payfac and MSB licensure with Velo’s complex… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, digital transactions, fintech adoption, fintech trends, michael orlando, payment solutions, payments, rental industry

August 22, 2023 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FluidAI, the fintech making tokenized market access more efficient for institutions, trading platforms, and retail investors, has announced a partnership with I-X, Imperial College London’s artificial intelligence (AI) initiative. It marks the “first-known” AI partnership at “a globally renowned university to be partially funded by… Read More

 Tagged ahmed ismail, ai, artificial intelligence, distributed systems, europe, fintech adoption, fintech trends, imperial college london, london, tokenization, trading, uk, united kingdom

August 22, 2023 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, a embedded banking software company, today announced its strategic partnership with Liberty Bank, N.A., a full-service commercial bank supporting markets across California, to offer innovative embedded banking solutions to customers in the fintech space. Through the collaboration, Liberty Bank, N.A. will work “with… Read More

 Tagged banking, embedded finance, fintech adoption, fintech trends, jeff nowicki, liberty bank, treasury prime

August 22, 2023 @ 8:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynergy Bank announces that it has secured a £20 million Tier 2 capital facility from British Business Investments. The capital will be deployed “across Cynergy Bank and Cynergy Business Finance.” The new funding from British Business Investments, “a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business… Read More

 Tagged british business investments, capital facility, Cynergy Bank, europe, judith hartley, nick fahy, small businesses, smbs, sme's, uk, united kingdom

August 22, 2023 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

On track to lend $70 million in the next 12 months, global fintech startup Koverly introduces a B2B buy now, pay later platform “with a 30-day, no cost period for foreign exchange payments; company also announces seed funding.” Koverly, a global B2B payments solution “providing… Read More

 Tagged b2b, bnpl, buy now pay later, digital transactions, flexible payments, foreign exchange rates, fx, igor ostrovsky, installment plans, koverly, koverlypay, payments

August 22, 2023 @ 7:36 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance platform LendInvest has added automatic decisions in principle (DiP) in its latest platform update, according to a note from the firm. The goal is to streamline the financing process for residential mortgages further. LendInvest says that the DiP process is applicable for applications… Read More

 Tagged dip, esther morley, lendinvest, uk, united kingdom