Global

June 30, 2021 @ 7:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Switzerland-based Fintech firm neon has reportedly secured 5 million CHF through a crowd investing campaign that lasted for less than an hour. 🚀 oder 🛸Das war wirklich Wahnsinn. Wir sind überwältigt! Der Staub setzt sich gerade und unser Adrenalin auch grad dazu….🙌💗 pic.twitter.com/jG7xSJj5Qd — neon… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 11:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crown Agents Bank Ltd confirms that it has been chosen as a new banking partner by Cambridge Global Payments, a FLEETCOR firm and a provider of integrated cross-border payments and currency risk management services. Through the partnership with Crown Agents Bank, Cambridge will be able… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 10:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Siam Commercial Bank (BKK: SCB), which is Thailand’s first and oldest banking institution, and Thunes, an established international payments firm, revealed on Tuesday (June 29, 2021) that they have teamed up to allow individual customers and businesses overseas to send money to Thailand. The cross-border… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 9:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Internet of Things (IoT) communications network provider iWire this week announced a $34 million Series A funding round led by Noor Capital. France’s sovereign fund BPI France participated by offering a long-term equipment purchase option to iWire. That brings the company’s total raise to more… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 6:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Digital cross-border remittances are set to increase by 133 billion over the next five years, a new report from Juniper Research reveals. Digital Money Transfer & Remittances: Vendor Strategies, Opportunities and Market Forecasts 2021-2025 Market Research suggests growth will foster competition as players seek to… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 5:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

African Fintech platform Carbon today announced a five-year partnership with Visa which will see physical and digital credit cards offered to its customers. Visa will provide funding across the term for implementation and marketing support. In 2020 Carbon pivoted from digital lending to digital banking… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 4:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global bank investment strategies are becoming more proactive, data from a Finastra survey suggest. Finastra surveyed 785 professionals from institutions in the US, UK, Singapore, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and the UAE for Financial Services: State of the Nation Survey 2021. In 2021 banks’ top… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 3:17 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

Puerto Rico-based digital bank FV Bank has announced that it has inked a deal with Fireblocks, a platform for securing digital assets. Through this association, FV Bank will leverage Fireblocks’ MPC-based wallet and network infrastructure to provide digital asset custody services to its customers. FV… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TruNarrative has reportedly been selected by the Rational Group, which is home to FX and payment firms RationalFX and Xendpay. TruNarrative has been chosen by Rational Group to enhance its customer onboarding and identity verification processes while offering a user-friendly experience. Launched in 2005, RationalFX… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 2:01 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

European IPO activity has surged during the pandemic, data from BuyShares.co.uk shows.  In 2020 investors saw many IPOs along with outsized average returns, with total IPO deal value up 64 per cent to more than $300 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal and Dealogic…. Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Jessica DiRubio, the Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Partnerships at AppBrilliance, an Austin-based payments technology firm. AppBrilliance aims to power and support true, real-time non-custodial Open Payments and Banking services in the United States. The company enables businesses to… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After the receipt of its provisional banking license back in 2019, Capital International Bank has managed to acquire the full Class 1(2) banking license under the Alternative Banking Regime (ABR) from the Isle of Man’s Financial Services Authority. Obtaining this permit means that the company… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) revealed on Tuesday (June 29, 2021) that it has decided to extend its contract with UK-based wealth management firm Netwealth Investments Ltd for another 5-year period. As noted on SEI’s official website: “It’s one thing to help someone achieve success. It’s another to… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Klarna has chosen embedded business finance platform Liberis in order to help it with providing its digital commerce customers with revenue-based financing options. The deal between Liberis and Klarna will see the BNPL Fintech company’s 250,000+ merchant partners in 17 different countries provided… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 7:16 am By Priyanka Pani  |  

The London-based leading fund manager Chrysalis Investments has reportedly picked up a £75 million stake in Smart, a retirement savings platform. As per a report by Sky News, Chrysalis will announce the funding on Monday.  Chrysallis has backed fintech companies such as Klarna, Starling Bank,… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 7:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Close to two out of three banking executives believe branch banking will be dead by 2026, a new report published this week by Temenos suggests. Produced by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Branching out: can banks move from city centres to digital ecosystems? Includes a survey of 305… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 6:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a global tech firm which offers economic infrastructure for the Internet, reveals that it has been chosen by Hargreaves Lansdown, the United Kingdom’s leading digital wealth management service provider. Stripe will serve as Hargreaves Lansdown‘s main payments partner. Hargreaves Lansdown has selected Stripe for… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 6:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DIGITEC, the international standard for carrying out foreign exchange (FX) Swaps and NDF pricing and data, reveals that it has established a new London office, which will be led by Stephan von Massenbach who joins the company as MD, Chief Revenue Officer. Part of DIGITEC’s… Read More

June 29, 2021 @ 6:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LiquidShare, an established European Fintech firm, has chosen Sextant for Daml, the blockchain and smart contract management and operations solution offered by Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP), in order to deliver its post-trade offering. LiquidShare was developed back in 2017 by leading European financial institutions including… Read More

June 28, 2021 @ 3:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Seychelles registered crypto exchange OKEx, which claims to be the leader in cryptocurrency spot and derivatives trading, is pleased to confirm that OKExChain, an open-source and “truly” decentralized ecosystem “designed explicitly with traders in mind,” is available to blockchain developers “to kickstart exciting decentralized apps.”… Read More