General News

October 12, 2022 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Payable reveals that they’ve raised $6.1 million in order to build a payment operations platform so companies “stop using EBICs, bank files and spreadsheets to move and reconcile money.” With Payable, you can “connect your banks and automate payments from initiation to… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 10:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Railsr, the embedded finance experience platform, has chosen SurePay as its UK Faster Payments (UKFP) Confirmation of Payee (CoP) vendor in order to assist its clients with combatting fraudulent activities and misdirected payments carried out in the United Kingdom. With SurePay, Railsr may now take… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 10:10 am By JD Alois  |  

The periodic report assessing teen trends produced by Piper Sandler has been distributed this past week. While skipping over digital payment preferences, as outlined in their previous report, the authors did address the crypto trends of teens. The research surveyed 14,500 teens across the country… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bluevine, which claims to be the leading provider of holistic banking solutions designed for small businesses and Heard, the financial back-office for therapists in private practice, announced a partnership in order “to provide business checking to mental health professionals.” COVID saw “a twenty percent rise… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) is pleased to announce the signature of an agreement for the acquisition of Kantox, a Fintech for the automation of currency risk management. FT Partners advised Kantox on its sale to BNP Paribas. Kantox’s software solution has “managed to successfully re-bundle the… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Since launching regulated and secure BTC trading in 2015, Gemini says it has been a passionate supporter of Bitcoin and the blockchain ecosystem. Importantly, Gemini provided grants and sponsorships through the Gemini Opportunity Fund to various groups “supporting the Bitcoin Network, including Bitcoin Developers.” In… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays is rolling out a new cashback without purchase service, “creating thousands of new locations for consumers to withdraw cash for free.” This is the first time a UK bank has “launched its own cashback without purchase service, made possible by Barclays’ payments franchise and… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) recently published the priority themes for the next phase of work under the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-Border Payments, two years after the Roadmap was launched. The plan reportedly “includes the practical steps to be taken to strengthen external engagement… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 10:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the leader in digital payments, shared an updated look at how fraud has evolved since the height of the pandemic, with criminals simultaneously “targeting online and offline vulnerabilities as our daily lives return to a blend of in-person and e-commerce experiences.” Paul… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 3:46 pm By JD Alois  |  

Business intelligence (BI) platform Lightdash has raised $8.4 million in Seed funding in a round led by Accel. Simultaneously, Lighthouse announced that hosted product Lightdash Cloud, is also now available in public beta, after receiving a waitlist of more than 600 pre-qualified companies. Other investors… Read More

October 10, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

For the entire world, and especially for the European region, the year 2022 is associated with significant fluctuations in the global economy, which also “have left a remarkable impact on every local market,” the team at Debitum noted. Such a difficult and critical period has… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new independent survey of more than 2,000 European SMEs has found: 68% plan to adopt real-time payment processing in the next 12 months At present, just 10% of SMEs can receive payments instantly 23% say their international growth has been hindered due to delays… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, the “longest-standing” DeFi lending protocol and creator of DAI, the “original,” decentralized stablecoin, announced “the strategic investment of $500M USD (converted from $500M DAI) into a combination of US Short Treasuries and Investment Grade Corporate Bonds.” The move, which will be initiated by DeFi… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Orca, a Solana-based liquidity platform, has announced the launch of the Orca Climate Fund. The fund is “reflective of its mission to combat climate change and promote sustainable practices in crypto.” The Orca Climate Fund “evolved from Orca’s Impact Fund which was born in August… Read More

October 9, 2022 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ThriveDX, which claims to be the “premier” cybersecurity and digital skills provider, and Exclusive Networks, a globally “trusted” cybersecurity specialist for digital infrastructure,  announced the expansion of their partnership “to deliver end-to-end cybersecurity training and talent solutions to its global network of more than 25,000… Read More

October 8, 2022 @ 6:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bizcuit provides invoice financing to Rabobank clients in their need for flexible liquidity. These services are for those who need money quickly to meet their payment obligations in the short term, want to take advantage of a purchasing option with their supplier, or because they… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aleph.im, the Web3 cloud platform for computing services, file storage and indexing solutions, announced the launch of their open source and “decentralized” indexing solution for the Solana ecosystem, in order “to accelerate the development of decentralized applications through accessible data queries and integrations.” As the… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 4:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

Monthly non-farm payrolls came in hot today, alongside a robust employment report, causing markets to swoon as the likelihood of a Fed pause diminishes. Everyone now believes that the Fed will continue its path to curb-stomp inflation after a too-long period where the central bank… Read More

October 7, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PKO Bank Polski says the Metaverse initiative will be used as a laboratory “to broaden experience and to test relevant technological solutions.” According to Paweł Gruza, vice president of the management board of PKO Bank Polski managing the work of the management board, in the… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

British teenagers say they go online for help “on everything from hair hacks to video game tips, with one in three (33%) preferring to seek advice on the web to avoid the ‘awkwardness’ of asking someone face to face.” The Lloyds Bank research – which… Read More