June 30, 2023 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AlloyX, a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that aggregates tokenized credit, announced today the launch of a liquid real-world asset (RWA) vault product after closing a $2 million pre-seed funding round “led by Hack VC, with investments from Circle Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Stratos, Lecca Ventures,… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 1:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asset managers project future organic growth despite a host of challenges facing the industry, according to a Northern Trust industry study of 150 asset managers, conducted in partnership with Coalition Greenwich. While 84% expect to grow, 22% plan “to implement changes to their operating models… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 12:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capchase, the provider of financing solutions for Software-as-a-Service companies, announced a milestone for its 2021 initiative to provide non-dilutive capital to women- and minority-led startups. Over the last two years, the company has “deployed more than $100 million in funding to these underserved groups using… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) recently announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pismo for $1 billion in cash. Together, they will be positioned “to provide core banking and issuer processing capabilities across debit, prepaid, credit and commercial cards for clients via cloud native APIs.”… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 11:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ForwardAI, a fintech providing aggregated direct data access to accounting and ERP platforms, announced the launch of the Forwardly Partner Program, which offers rewards to accountants, bookkeepers and financial professionals who refer business to Forwardly, the first real-time payments solution for small businesses in the… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Confluence Technologies, Inc., a global technology solutions provider to the investment management industry, announced the first development out of its innovation lab that leverages AI technology to solve complex industry problems. As the first application, the Confluence innovation lab “applies Large Language Models (LLM) to… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 9:51 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 has been granted Royal Assent. The comprehensive legislation aims to grow the UK economy while enabling innovation. London has long been a top global financial services center. This leadership has morphed into the UK becoming one of the… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 9:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sardine announced the formation of SardineX, an industry-wide, independent consortium to curtail payment fraud by bringing together established financial institutions and emerging fintech organizations to establish trust across multiple payment rails. Founding members reportedly “include Chesapeake Bank, Visa, Airbase, Blockchain.com, Alloy Labs Alliance, iLex, and… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced a partnership with Google Workspace to power paid appointment bookings with Google Calendar. The new feature, which is built on Stripe Connect and Stripe Checkout, “enables customers to pay for services directly while making a booking on… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest, which claims to be the UK’s biggest bank for business, is offering 24 months of free business banking to UK businesses “switching their main business banking account to NatWest.” The new SME switcher offer from NatWest for businesses “with up to £2m in turnover… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 7:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced its strategic partnership with Sardine, an all-in-one fraud detection, compliance, and risk management platform. This collaboration will empower companies and financial institutions within Treasury Prime’s multi-bank network “to leverage Sardine’s Sponsor Bank Operating System, offering turnkey fraud… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Qover, the Insurtech that is transforming the insurance industry with its orchestration technology, has announced a second partnership with Revolut, the global financial super app with more than 30 million retail customers worldwide, “to provide embedded insurance for its new trip and event cancellation cover.”… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LHV Bank, a provider of banking services to global fintechs and SME lending solutions to UK businesses, announces the appointment of Rachelle Frewer “as its incoming Chief Financial Officer.” Subject to regulatory approval, Rachelle will “start her position on 2 January 2024 and will also… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 6:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

QuickNode, a provider of blockchain infrastructure, announces that it now supports the XRP Ledger (XRPL). This integration makes the XRPL, “a Layer 1 open-source, energy-efficient, and decentralized blockchain, available to the global developer community on the QuickNode platform.” Adding the XRPL to QuickNode will “help… Read More

June 30, 2023 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Texas Capital Bank is on a mission “to harness innovation and help clients thrive. Amid an ongoing transformation in support of those goals, the firm is partnering with Extend to give clients a modern spend management platform with the power of virtual cards – all… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, today announced its strategic partnership with Fintainium, a cutting-edge financial technology company providing innovative and comprehensive payment methods. Through the collaboration, Cross River will “provide a range of payment services, including connection to… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 7:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance (which has been sued by US regulators for a wide range of issues), continues to support the growth of the DeFi sector and has participated in a strategic funding round for Maverick Protocol, a DeFi… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recently, The Graph, a protocol for indexing and querying blockchain data, eclipsed one trillion queries. For years, subgraphs on The Graph have “been powering thousands of decentralized applications (dapps) in development and production across the hosted service and Graph Network.” There are over 74,000 subgraphs… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 6:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

It appears that raising money online runs in the family when it comes to Dalmore Group founder Etan Butler as his son is pursuing an already successful rewards-based campaign. Live now on Kickstarter, Gal Butler has raised over $85,000 on a funding target of just… Read More

June 29, 2023 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase, a global Fintech company and creators of a unified Engagement Banking Platform that improves every aspect of the customer and member experience, announced multiple new hires to its Enterprise team in North America. The addition of these skilled professionals shows Backbase’s dedication “to the… Read More