Global

April 27, 2023 @ 9:56 am By JD Alois  |  

MERJ Exchange, a Seychelles-based regulated exchange, has signed an Introducing Broker Referral Agreement with Boustead Securities, a FINRA regulated broker-dealer. The deal will allow US-based investors to trade dual-listed securities on Upstream – part of MERJ. Upstream is a retail trading platform powered by Horizon… Read More

April 27, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Palantir Technologies Inc., a software and services company which specializes in big data analysis, plans “to expand its operations in Lithuania, after entering into a strategic partnership, together with the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.” Both parties are planning “to collaborate in developing new digital… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TreviPay, the global B2B payments and invoicing network, has partnered with Mirakl, the SaaS solution chosen by enterprises worldwide to manage their marketplace and dropship business, “to provide a centralized financing, invoicing and payment solution for manufacturers, distributors and group purchasing organizations operating marketplace and… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dukascopy Bank and Clear Junction have partnered in order “to provide licensed electronic money institutions and payment institutions with a one-stop solution that satisfies their banking and payment needs.” The partnership demonstrates “how different organisations can work to complement one another.” For some time now,… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Buddy, the budgeting app for Gen Zers with 3M users worldwide, has integrated with Plaid, an open finance service provider, in order “to provide Buddy users with the ability to securely connect their financial accounts and automatically track their spending.” Buddy claims it is “entirely… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

InComm Payments, a payments technology company, today announced the launch of InComm Payments Brazil Technology Ltda., an information technology (IT) hub dedicated to developing payments solutions “for industries including retail, financial services, mobile payments and more.” Based in Fortaleza, the IT hub “expands InComm Payments’ Brazil… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), the global securities class actions recovery provider, announced it will power the North American class action filing and recovery service for BNY Mellon‘s custody clients, “including broader access to comprehensive non-U.S. alerts for global markets.” This expands upon the alliance that… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Estateguru, an online investing and originating platform that serves the European market, is reporting a “stable and success” first quarter of the year. Estategura says it funded 178 projects with a loan volume of €23 million and hitting a new milestone of over €700 million… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 9:12 am By JD Alois  |  

TS Imagine has connected with European prime broker for digital assets – Crypto Finance. TS Imagine is a “cross-asset” trading platform that provides financial solutions for sophisticated investors. The company said it aims to offer institutional clients greater connectivity and liquidity in cryptocurrency trading with the… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

IXOPAY, an independent payment orchestration provider, and EBANX, a Fintech company that specializes in international payments in rising markets, have announced a partnership. Together the partners will “focus on providing access to local payment solutions for global brands and offering local payment methods to consumers,… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Atlantic Money is pleased to announce the launch of its referral program, offering users the opportunity “to earn £15 or €15 for each approved person they refer.” Together with its unique “fixed fee” pricing model, the new referral program is “bringing Atlantic Money one step… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new study from Juniper Research, who claim to be experts in payments, found that carrier billing spend “will reach $122 billion globally by 2027, rising from $70 billion in 2023.” This reported “growth of 74% over the next four years will be driven by… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bolton Global Capital, an independent wealth management firm, and iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced a partnership “to provide Bolton’s extensive network of financial advisors with a range of private market offerings and resources.” Bolton… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 5:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank / Fintech Klarna aims to make its platform a global shopping destination for 150 million consumers. Klarna hopes to enable its 500,000 retailers to benefit from its new personalized shopping feed powered by artificial intelligence (AI). The Klarna app’s discovery shopping feed, powered… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Melio, a B2B payments platform for small businesses, announced a partnership with Shopify to power Shopify Bill Pay, an accounts payable solution that will transform how Shopify merchants pay and manage their business bills. Through Shopify Bill Pay, merchants will now “have the ability to… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment platform Lightyear announces the launch of its web application. The requested feature will “enable customers to manage their portfolios, buy/sell shares and research 3,000+ instruments available on Lightyear.” As noted in the update shared with CI, the importance of offering “a web platform has… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment bank Schroders recently revealed that it has slashed the valuation of its shareholding in digital bank Revolut by nearly half after the Fintech company had been criticized for trying to downplay potentially serious red flags from auditors BDO regarding its revenue statement. As noted… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantum engineering company Riverlane announced it has raised £15 million in a Series B funding. The investment round was “led by Molten Ventures and included participation from simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence leader Altair and returning investors Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), Amadeus Capital… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS), an alternative asset manager specializing in digital assets, has announced “the implementation of LedgerLens, a real-time reserves attestation solution provided by independent accounting firm, The Network Firm.” This blockchain-enabled solution “will offer real-time attestation services for CoinShares’ Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), including… Read More

April 25, 2023 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DivideBuy has released the results of a new consumer insights survey, “showing that 38% of UK consumers will make more use of interest free credit options to manage their finances in the next 12 months.” The Fintech is “Lendtech point of sale (POS) finance firm.”… Read More