August 23, 2023 @ 11:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thales announces the launch of Thales payShield Cloud HSM, a subscription-based digital payments security service built “on its payShield 10K Payment Hardware Security Module (HSM) technology to help customers accelerate the adoption of cloud-based payments infrastructure.” For more than 30 years, Thales’s payment HSMs have… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest (LSE:LINV), a real estate financing platform, has launched a residential mortgage product. According to a statement from LendInvest, the product is now available to Legal and General Mortgage Club members. LendInvest states that Legal & General Mortgage Club is the largest and longest-running mortgage club… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DMALINK, the EM-focused institutional FX ECN bolsters its Scandinavian currency presence. The firm revealed that Danske Bank A/S, has “added DMALINK as a platform to provide custom Scandinavian eFX pricing to its buy-side clients. The inclusion of Danske Bank in the DMALINK ecosystem “creates an… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and SME Finance in Lithuania have joined to provide €40 million in financing for businesses in the Baltics and elsewhere, according to a statement by the EIF. The EIF will be providing a guarantee to SME finance to provide investments… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Altum Group, a provider of fund, corporate, and family office solutions, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with RiskScreen, which claims to be an industry leader in advanced compliance solutions. The partnership marks a pivotal moment in Altum’s journey towards “being a future-fit business,… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Zorrz, a UK-based Fintech that has created an AI-powered tool for credit analysis, has partnered with BNPL Sileon. Sileon is based in Sweden and specializes in “card-based Buy Now Pay Later” offerings. Sileon is listed on the Nasdaq First North Growth Market and has approximately… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Steve Hulme, CFO at Zopa Bank, has shared an update on their financial performance. Last year was an “exceptionally” strong year for Zopa Bank that reportedly “laid the foundations for their strong profitable growth.” The firm’s management added that as people in the UK continued… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 7:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swift announced strong progress toward goals set by the G20 for enhancing cross-border payments, reporting that 89% of transactions processed on its network reach recipient banks within an hour. That’s ahead of speed targets “set by the Financial Stability Board to achieve one-hour processing for… Read More

August 23, 2023 @ 3:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNBO has announced the launch of its instant digital issuance capabilities in partnership with Visa, which claims to be a world leader in digital payments. The technology solution “enhances the customer experience by providing instant account credential delivery to a user’s mobile wallet in one… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AI [artificial intelligence] is the most effective method for improving anti-money laundering (AML) processes and efficiencies according to AML professionals, research from Feedzai, a provider of financial crime and risk management solutions Feedzai’s The State of Global Anti Money Laundering Compliance Report 2023 surveyed compliance… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

USDC is launching on six new blockchains, and Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) says that it is increasing its support for stablecoins with an investment in Circle. Circle will reportedly “take full control over USDC issuance and governance.” Meanwhile, Coinbase and Circle will also “maintain a commercial relationship.”… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When Hyperion Decimus Founders Chris Sullivan and Matt Rosen launched the quant fund they had one “headache” to solve: mitigating counterparty risk. Self-custody wasn’t secure enough, so they “started the process of carefully vetting potential custodians.” That’s how they reportedly chose BitGo. Sullivan said: “BitGo… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 9:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The International Cricket Council (ICC), together with official fintech infrastructure partner and real-time global payments platform, Nium, invited all cricket-loving technologists to enhance the world of cricket through innovation as part of the second edition of the Next In hackathon. The “Next In” hackathon is… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Institutional trading platform DMALINK has surpassed its funding target of £425,000 on Seedrs. UK-based DMALINK aims to service institutions trading in FX and crypto globally. According to the offering page, DMALINK is raising equity capital at a pre-money valuation of £17.3 million. The investment is… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 5:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Two of the most “trusted” brands in Web3 and payments integrate in order to help users explore crypto. The teams at PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Ledger are pleased to announce “an on-ramp integration with PayPal, allowing users to explore crypto in a convenient, simple and secure… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 4:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset bank Anchorage will soon power EDX Markets custody service. According to a release by the firm, the institutional crypto exchange EDX will utilize Anchorage for its clearinghouse service or EDX Clearing. EDX is a new digital asset marketplace aiming to provide services to… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 2:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

EchoPay and Token.io have partnered to offer “account to account” (A2A) payments for wholesale merchants in the UK. Token.io is an open banking provider for the payments industry. The company reports that it processes payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas,… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 2:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Eltropy, the digital conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), announced a partnership with Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT), a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the U.S. The Eltropy-Alkami partnership will “allow more financial institutions to create personalized account-holder experiences for… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The global economic slowdown has hit SaaS startups hard, according to an update from Capchase. With their customers looking for ways to reduce costs, many have “experienced increased churn, longer sales cycles, and tougher price negotiations.” But these effects have “not been felt evenly across… Read More

August 22, 2023 @ 11:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Velo Payments, Inc. is acquiring YapStone Inc., a payment processing platform in the short-term and vacation rental industry, known for its payment solution, The definitive merger agreement signifies “a strategic alignment of vision and technology, combining Yapstone’s established payfac and MSB licensure with Velo’s complex… Read More