General News

October 26, 2022 @ 11:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YuLife, the tech-driven financial services brand on a mission to inspire life, announced that it is launching in the United States. Founded in London in 2016, YuLife claims it “achieved rapid traction in the UK insurance market through its flagship product, group life insurance.” The… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 6:15 pm By JD Alois  |  

President Joe Biden issued a statement today declaring “junk fees” wrong and illegal. In what may be an electioneering move, the President declared: “… my administration is also making clear: Surprise overdraft fees are illegal.  Listen to how those fees work.  And some of —… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 10:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) U.S. customers will soon be able “to add their Venmo account as a payment method.” At Venmo, they’re consistently “focused on giving you more ways to use Venmo in your daily life.” Today, they’re pleased to introduce the ability “to pay with… Read More

October 25, 2022 @ 4:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Data points highlighting flagging markets, including private investments in early-stage firms, continue to litter our inbox. The missives should arrive as no surprise as inflation is at a multi-decade high, the US economy is in a recession (or will soon be in one), and the… Read More

October 25, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Following a cyberattack that hit 7-Eleven at the beginning of August 2022, which initially took the chain’s payment and checkout systems out of operation, “a new mobile card payment solution was quickly rolled out in less than a day” through a collaboration with Nets and… Read More

October 25, 2022 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the transaction banking and technology specialist from Intellect Design Arena Limited, announced “the launch of Banking-as-a-Service for their global clients.” Traditional commercial banks in the recent past have been “facing increasing competition from various quarters such as neo banks, fintechs… Read More

October 24, 2022 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Banking Expo, the global community of Open Banking and Open Finance executives responsible for digital transformation across financial services and beyond, has partnered with American Express in order “to launch the world’s first Women in Open Banking.” The new industry initiative is “aimed at… Read More

October 24, 2022 @ 9:46 am By JD Alois  |  

UK markets are showing a sign of relief following the news that former PM Boris Johnson has decided to pass on another go as the occupant of Number 10 Downing Street, and Penny Mordaunt tweeted she would stand down from the race, thus clearing the… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zolve, a global neobank providing cross-border financial services, recently announced the appointment of Kin Chung to its leadership team in the United States. Chung, Zolve’s new Head of Credit and Risk, comes with “a wealth of experience in the financial domain through several key leadership… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Like many other markets around the world, the hot tech sector in Israel is not as hot as it was last year. According to LeumiTech’s periodic report, in the first nine months of 2022, Israeli Tech companies raised $12.3 billion or 30% less than in… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, the “pioneering” issuer processing platform, has announced the launch of its dynamic spend management tool Authorization Control, which “empowers companies of any size, in any sector, to set transaction and spending controls for any card in real time.” Combined with Enfuce’s turnkey Card as… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The agreement between Danske Bank and the consortium of banks behind Vipps to merge MobilePay and Vipps has been “approved by all relevant authorities, including the EU Commission.” The parties expect “to complete the transaction during the fourth quarter of 2022.” The merger was “announced… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based challenger bank Atom has appointed Andrew Marshall as the company’s chief financial officer. He will be replacing Atom co-founder David McCarthy whose departure was first reported  in September of this year. Marshall has reportedly worked at Atom for the past six years, holding several… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bookkeep, the “smarter” accounting automation platform, announced a $6.6 million seed+ round of funding led by Fin Capital, “with participation from existing investors TTV Capital, Argonautic Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Haymaker Ventures, and others.” This investment round brings Bookkeep’s total funding “to $10 million, following a… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS (SWX: UBSG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) announced a landmark expansion of their partnership “to accelerate UBS’s public cloud footprint over the next five years.” Through this transformational initiative, UBS plans “to have more than 50% of its applications, including critical workloads, running on Microsoft… Read More

October 21, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance.US, the U.S. partner to the largest crypto exchange and “America’s home” to buy, sell, trade, convert and stake digital assets, announced the appointment of former Federal Bureau of Investigation agent, BJ Kang, “as the company’s first Head of Investigations.” In this role, BJ will… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Virtual currency trading company CrossTower continues to pursue a potential deal to acquire the assets of the once-leading and now-bankrupt Voyager Digital Ltd. out of bankruptcy, a lawyer for CrossTower noted at a court hearing on Wednesday (October 19, 2022). John Ashmead, CrossTower’s lawyer, a… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP) and Cvent (Nasdaq: CVT), a meetings, events, and hospitality technology provider, introduced enhanced features to the Cvent Event Marketing & Management platform that “further expand virtual payment capabilities, leveraging American Express’ integrated budget management and payment automation solutions.” The enhanced features… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZSuite Tech, a financial technology company that powers financial institutions with unbound digital accounts encompassing escrow, subaccounting, sub-ledgering, FBO and trust accounts for commercial clients, announced Manasquan Bank successfully deployed ZEscrow, the industry’s “first” completely digital commercial escrow solution, and ZRent, an automated rent and… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chase, the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), announced it is giving Secure Banking customers more flexibility “over how they manage their money by providing access to direct deposits up to two days early.” Beginning this month, Secure… Read More