Global

September 24, 2020 @ 8:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Michele Tucci, Chief Product Officer at CredoLab, a Fintech firm that’s focused on driving better credit decisions with the help of its platform, explains that his company has a strategy that may help US lenders with coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic “stronger than before.”… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nav, an intelligent and easy-to-use financing platform for SMBs, revealed on September 22, 2020, that it has developed a more enhanced or improved solution. Nav noted in a release shared with CI that it has added real-time business data analysis and bank account connectivity. The… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 4:09 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Payments platform Stripe announced on Wednesday it has formed a global commerce partnership with Salesforce to power Commerce Cloud Payments and advanced commerce experiences for enterprise customers. The duo is teaming up to help retailers adapt to a reported digital spending surge. “E-commerce spending has… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Antony Welfare, Chief Commercial Officer at NEM Group, an organization supporting the development of NEM, a blockchain or distributed ledger technology (DLT) based platform for building enterprise-grade applications, states that blockchain tech is now more than 10 years old (as far as its application is… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Commission has announced the adoption of a Digital Finance Package along with legislative proposals on crypto-assets (digital assets).  The announcement has been widely anticipated and earlier this month draft legislation pertaining to crypto-assets was leaked to the public. According to a statement by… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Accelerated Payments reports that it has advanced €210 million worth of invoice financing as it celebrates its third anniversary in operation.  Accelerated Payments, and invoice financing platform, claims to be the fastest-growing Fintech in Europe. Meanwhile, the company is planning to set up shop in… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 9:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Property finance Fintech LendInvest has integrated with SIRA, a national fraud prevention and detection database using a service from Synectics Solutions. The move is designed to speed up retrieval of fraud insights for mortgage applications. LendInvest says it has also integrated with SIRA’s API to… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil-based FitBank Pagamentos Eletronicos SA, a Fintech firm backed by JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s largest banks in terms of assets and scope of operations, is planning to establish an additional business office in the US during the first half of next year. The… Read More

September 24, 2020 @ 8:09 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Prime Trust, a blockchain-driven trust company, has teamed up with global identity verification provider Acuant for identity verification and complain to meet Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations, manage fraud and fight financial crime, through its All-In-One Trusted Identity platform. Prime Trust reported it is integrating… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 11:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recently published a document for regulatory authorities and enforcement agencies. The FATF listed several different “red flags” in cryptocurrency transfers and service user profiles that may indicate that the entities involved in the transactions are engaging in money laundering,… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Caecilia Chu, CEO and Co-Founder of YouTrip, a multi-currency mobile wallet provider from Singapore, has been recognized as one the “Top 25 Fintech CEOs of Asia for 2020” and also the “Top 25 Women Leaders in Fintech” by The Financial Technology Report. As mentioned in… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 9:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Payments tech firm FSS (Financial Software and Systems) is helping Everlink Payment Services Inc., a payments solutions working with Canadian credit unions, banks, and SMEs, modernize its card operations to support its future growth plans. According to a release, the FSS solution was chosen as… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The developers at Avalanche, a blockchain project led by Cornell professor Dr. Emin Gun Sirer, have announced that their platform’s native AVAX token will be available for trading on Binance, the world’s largest digital currency exchange. AVAX token trading will be available on Binance, beginning… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Zenda.la has reportedly become the first Mexican company to get accepted to the IBM Hyper Protect Accelerator program, which is conducted through a partnership with Village Capital. Zenda’s management says that being accepted into the tech giant’s program is “especially relevant as we… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 2:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Banco Santander announced that its venture arm, Santander Innoventures was being spun off and renamed as Mouro Capital. Today, Mouro Capital is announcing its first investment leading a $26 million funding round in Uncapped. The funding round was said to include both… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 2:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Robinhood, a modern trading platform that offers both traditional securities as well as crypto, has reportedly secured $660 million in total through its Series G funding round. The platform revealed it raised $200 million through the round last month, with D1 Capital Partners leading the… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 12:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Transferwise, a UK based Fintech that has gone global, has distributed a note promoting the savings it can generate for US customers. Transferwise is a Fintech that allows you to quickly and inexpensively transfer money anywhere – minus hidden fees and silly exchange rates. The… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 10:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Binance Futures, a crypto derivatives exchange, is reporting $1 trillion in trading volume – year to date. Binance Futures started a year ago in September 2019 and claims title as the market leader. Binance Futures is part of Binance – the world’s largest digital asset… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 10:04 am By JD Alois  |  

Transferwise, a Fintech unicorn and fast-growing stealth bank, has published its annual report for the fiscal year ending March 2020. According to the document, Transferwise’s annual profit more than doubled to £20.4 million during the year – the fourth year in a row that the… Read More

September 23, 2020 @ 8:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Procheck24, Germany’s largest financial product broker, is collaborating with Raisin to offer a “novel” deposits solution for financial institutions. According to a note from Raisin, its services will now be made available via Procheck24’s 60,000 business partners including client banks. Raisin is an open banking… Read More