October 23, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Zolve, a global neobank providing cross-border financial services, recently announced the appointment of Kin Chung to its leadership team in the United States. Chung, Zolve’s new Head of Credit and Risk, comes with “a wealth of experience in the financial domain through several key leadership… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 7:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Unstoppable Domains integrates with Wyre and will be providing users “a quick and secure way to load their wallet.” Wyre’s payment infrastructure has “continued to support businesses much like Unstoppable Domains, and [the team] are continuing to build solutions aimed at removing common roadblocks and… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Like many other markets around the world, the hot tech sector in Israel is not as hot as it was last year. According to LeumiTech’s periodic report, in the first nine months of 2022, Israeli Tech companies raised $12.3 billion or 30% less than in… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 6:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pyth Network is pleased to announce that the Pyth price feeds are now available on Aptos mainnet. Thanks to the support of Wormhole and Aptos Labs, the team is pleased “to enable anyone building the future of finance on Aptos to leverage Pyth’s high-fidelity data… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 5:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Card issuer and service provider Apto Payments announced the addition of Patriot National Bancorp, Inc., a Connecticut corporation “as a new bank partner to help customers bring card products to market with ease and confidence.” Patriot is a bank that is “committed to supporting purpose-driven,… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Envestnet, Inc. (NYSE: ENV) announced that it is accelerating the growth of its Data and Analytics business by “launching the Wealth Data platform, a cloud-based data intelligence solution for wealth advisory firms, to allow home offices and financial advisors to connect and enrich all the… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 4:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As most of their users might know, ShapeShift transitioned to a DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) in July last year. This has “proven to be an amazing journey, allowing us to offer so much more to [their] users, such as more options for buying, trading, investing,… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Banyan, the network for SKU data, recently announced it has raised a $43 million Series A round led by Fin Capital and M13. The funds from the investment round will “accelerate Banyan’s technology and infrastructure growth to benefit merchants, hotels, banks and fintechs.” The Banyan… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Uphold has been named the fastest-growing private company in the San Francisco Bay area by the SF Business Times. Uphold is a Fintech that leverages blockchain technology for transfers and payments as well as cryptocurrency trading. Based in the UK, Uphold has an SF outpost… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A new academy focused on tackling financial crime will be formed under a partnership agreement between Griffith University and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Building on CBA’s existing capability to combat financial crime and Griffith University’s considerable expertise in business and accounting structures, criminology… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 3:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CEPRES — which claims to be the leader in private market investment technology and data —  announced the launch of CEPRES Predictive Intelligence, which is described as “an enhanced, future-oriented portfolio management suite based on CEPRES’s proven and backtested forecasting technology.” CEPRES Predictive Intelligence enables… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 12:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce, the “pioneering” issuer processing platform, has announced the launch of its dynamic spend management tool Authorization Control, which “empowers companies of any size, in any sector, to set transaction and spending controls for any card in real time.” Combined with Enfuce’s turnkey Card as… Read More

October 23, 2022 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a key player in automating, digitizing and transforming the way people bank and shop, and Featurespace, a firm focused on enterprise financial crime prevention, announced that the companies are partnering “to integrate its highly specialized, fraud prevention technology into Diebold Nixdorf’s… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 7:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open banking payments platform, Token and Payment Service Provider (PSP), Computop Paygate, have joined forces “to answer the growing demand for Open Banking payments in Europe.” Using Token’s Open Banking connectivity and platform, Computop “enables account-to-account (A2A) payments for eCommerce merchants, whitelabel partners and resellers… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FT Partners Research recently announced the publication of their Q3 2022 Crypto & Capital Markets Tech Insights report, providing the review of global deal activity for the Crypto & Blockchain and Wealth & Capital Markets Tech sectors “with analysis across private company financings, IPOs, and… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paylink Solutions has entered into a partnership with benefits digital solution provider, Inbest, in order to provide precise information to clients about benefits and social funding. More than 8 million households in the United Kingdom are presently missing out on benefits worth £16 billion. The… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 4:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Senator Bill Hagerty’s Digital Asset Clarity Act of 2022 aims to determine when a digital asset is a security and when it may be something else. As was reported earlier this month, the legislation strives to provide digital asset exchanges with a safe harbor from… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 3:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global Fintech Capital on Tap has secured a $110 million corporate revolving credit facility with Atalaya Capital Management “to provide small businesses in the US and UK with a central hub to manage all aspects of their business finances.” Since launching in 2012, Capital on… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 2:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The agreement between Danske Bank and the consortium of banks behind Vipps to merge MobilePay and Vipps has been “approved by all relevant authorities, including the EU Commission.” The parties expect “to complete the transaction during the fourth quarter of 2022.” The merger was “announced… Read More

October 22, 2022 @ 2:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based challenger bank Atom has appointed Andrew Marshall as the company’s chief financial officer. He will be replacing Atom co-founder David McCarthy whose departure was first reported  in September of this year. Marshall has reportedly worked at Atom for the past six years, holding several… Read More