April 1, 2023 @ 3:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rocket Companies, Inc. (NYSE: RKT), a Detroit-based fintech platform company consisting of tech-driven financial businesses – including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Homes, Rocket Loans and Rocket Money – unveiled the Rocket Visa Signature Card, the first credit card created “to make homebuying easier and more accessible… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 6:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOTA, the non-profit organization driving the development of an open, feeless, and highly scalable distributed ledger technology (DLT) for Web3 applications and digital economies, announces the launch of the ShimmerEVM test chain on the Shimmer testnet. With IOTA launching its incentivized staging network Shimmer last… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 6:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo Financial is announcing the launch of the Neo Money card, expanding on the benefits of the high-interest Neo Money account with credit-like rewards when you spend. In 2022, Canadians “saw the largest increase in inflation since 1982 resulting in almost half (44%) of Canadians… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

GlobexUS Holdings Corp., the company that powers Upstream – a digital asset marketplace, is pursuing an online securities offering to raise growth capital. Upstream is a joint venture with MERJ Exchange – the regulated marketplace based in Seychelles. Upstream has been announcing digital securities cross-listed… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Stock options platform Equitybee has launched a new “Equity Value Finder,” a service designed to provide a market value for private shares. Pricing private shares has always been a challenge as you do not have a highly liquid marketplace to set a value as you… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) have partnered to announce QR codes for payments will now be accepted bilaterally. Users at participating financial firms will now accept in-person payments by scanning a physical code displayed on merchants as well as… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 3:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Binance is pleased to announce that they have officially joined the FIDO Alliance, which is described as one of the most “influential” and largest associations focused on developing passwordless authentication standards. Binance says they are committed to providing their users “with the… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After a successful year of launching new event programming geared towards advancing Fintech in the Commonwealth, the Mass Fintech Hub, a public-private partnership dedicated to making the state a global leader in fintech, announced an expansion of its membership. Led by M&T Bank, the newest… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Northern Trust Capital Markets (Nasdaq: NTRS)  reveals that it saw growth in its Integrated Trading Solutions business more than double over the past three years, “including 22 new clients added in 2022 as asset managers choose the platform for their outsourced trading needs.” Northern Trust… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 11:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust, a B2B accounts receivable (AR) automation and digital payments Fintech, surpassed $100 billion in payments volume in 2022, a 35% year-over-year increase and a first for the company. In addition, with CFOs and finance leaders seeking to bolster their financial resilience amid an economic… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

Private equity investment in the banking sector was down by more than half in 2022, according to a recent report provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence. The drop in PE and VC money was driven by the obvious economic decline and rising interest rates. The… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 10:25 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest has launched a new Mortgage Tech Meetup event series to discuss the future of mortgage technology.  The inaugural session will focus on key trends in Mortgage Technology in 2023 and the Future of Lending. The discussion is expected to be centered on the state… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vechain explains that it is dedicated to building the optimal real-world-ready blockchain environment and “enabling full-scale adoption of web3 technologies.” Their Web3-as-a-service platform, VORJ, “offers builders one of the most versatile blockchain tool suites on the market, and caters for users with little-to-no experience building… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 9:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Finverity, the digital ecosystem for trade and supply chain finance, announces it has raised $5 million in an equity funding round from new and current investors. New investors reportedly “include London-based Fintech specialist Outward, Amsterdam-based Acrobator Ventures and US-based s16vc founders fund with follow-on investments… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bolttech, the international insurtech, and Tune Protect Group, the region’s digital lifestyle insurer, have announced a partnership “to launch a new generation of device protection solutions and support services in Malaysia.” Tune Protect Malaysia, the Malaysian General Insurance arm of the Group, is the exclusive… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Archax, the FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker, and custodian, today announced the launch of its tokenisation engine – “enabling the creation of tokens backed by any regulated or unregulated real-world or traditional asset.” Leveraging the benefits of Web 3.0 and blockchain technology, this new service… Read More

March 31, 2023 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

In just a year since it launched its Jizô Network Detection & Response (NDR) solution, French cybersecurity company Sesame it reveals that it “has achieved profitability and plans to accelerate European development thanks to a €10 million fundraising.” Sesame it, which claims to be one… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 11:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pinwheel, the provider of income and employment data provider engineered for fintech innovation, joined the Visa Fintech Partner Connect program. Visa Fintech Partner Connect participants “are Visa Ready certified by Visa and trusted by the global payments ecosystem to help technology companies build and launch… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 10:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyriba, a global firm focused on cloud-based finance solutions, and U.S. Bank announced that they are working together “to ease the process of enabling real-time payments for businesses.” With new API-powered payment connectors, clients of both U.S. Bank and Kyriba can now easily “send instant… Read More

March 30, 2023 @ 9:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software platform, announced a partnership with Cable, an all-in-one financial crime compliance effectiveness testing platform, “to enhance compliance assurance and testing capabilities for Treasury Prime customers.” Through this partnership with Cable, companies and banks working with Treasury Prime “can access… Read More