October 20, 2022 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

DivideBuy, a UK-based Fintech that provides point of sale (POS) financing, has topped £250 million in lifetime sales, according to a note from the company. The company was founded in 2014. DivideBuy reports over 500 merchants in the UK and claims its customers have boosted… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuri was founded in 2015 under the name Bitwala with the purpose “to make Bitcoin spendable.” Over the years, the business has “gone through several transformations and re-positionings, ups and downs,” until it has become Nuri, the bank account “to grow your money.” The team’s… Read More

October 20, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) is partnering with Thunes to help individuals and small businesses move money internationally to 78 digital wallet providers, “reaching 1.5 billion digital wallets across 44 countries and territories.” This partnership will now “expand Visa Direct’s reach to nearly 7 billion endpoints, including… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest lending platform for small business borrowers, announced the appointment of Greig McEwan as Chief Technology Officer. Greig joins Funding Circle’s Global Leadership Team, “reporting to CEO, Lisa Jacobs.” Greig is “a customer-driven technology leader… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) has announced new collaborations across the payment ecosystem, “to bring Installments enabled by Visa to more eligible credit cardholders.” With Installments enabled by Visa, consumers have the option “to convert qualifying purchases into smaller, predictable installment payments made over a defined period… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 10:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Broadway, a provider of high-performance front-office solutions, announced major upgrades to its Duration Trader algorithm “to meet customer and market needs during an ongoing period of volatile European interest rates.” Broadway clients can now “leverage Duration Trader to efficiently unwind risk, eliminate inefficient manual hedging… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 9:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB has launched tap on phone payment technology “for small businesses in a first for a major Australian bank.” The NAB Easy Tap app is described as “an innovative solution that allows small businesses to accept contactless payments when customers tap their card1 or phone… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 8:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Colt Technology Services has announced the successful completion of a pioneering cloud colocation Proof of Concept (PoC), which demonstrates “the viability of hosting and distributing multicast data in the cloud for global Capital Market customers.” The testing represents “a step towards greater on demand services… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 8:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Binance NFT Marketplace is pleased to be the official sales platform of an exclusive NFT collection created by the Kharkiv Art Museum in Ukraine. This cultural institution is “home to around 25,000 works of fine art, and the museum’s collection is recognized as one… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 5:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, a global identity verification company, has updated its coverage across Latin America, “expanding access to the Dominican Republic and Uruguay and significantly strengthening data sources in Colombia and Mexico.” Those additions “bolster the company’s ability to serve customers streamlining operations in Latin America or… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 4:53 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Connecticut Green Bank is raising capital via its fourth Green Bond offering using the Reg CF securities exemption. The Green Liberty is open for investment via CGB Green Liberty Notes LLC, a FINRA-regulated funding portal. Offered in partnership with Raise Gren, investors may participate… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 4:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based financial technology firm, Cardless, Inc., and Simon, a real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership of premier shopping, dining, entertainment, and mixed-use destinations in the United States, have “agreed to launch the Simon® American Express® Credit Card from Cardless.” Once launched, Cardmembers… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 3:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIS (NYSE:FIS), which claims to be a global leader in financial services technology, announced today the appointment of Stephanie L. Ferris “as President and Chief Executive Officer.” In addition to her current role as President, Ferris will “take over as CEO from Gary A. Norcross, who… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 3:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

AngelList has announced AngelList Raise, even though it has been in use for about 12 months now. AngelLlist Raise is a largely automated online capital formation platform that enables early-stage firms to raise growth capital from Pre-Seed to ~ a Series C Round. AngelList notes… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Larky, a fintech provider proactively connecting financial institutions with their audience in the right place and at the right time, has teamed up with Finastra to “provide enhanced mobile banking solutions for its customers.” Larky’s nudge is now “available on Finastra’s mobile banking platform, enabling… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 2:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

The concept of a central bank digital currency (CBDC), privately issued stablecoins, and digital currency, in general, has swirled together for some time now. Some policymakers and pundits believe that for the dollar to continue to reign as the world’s default currency, it must move… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 1:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

SNCF, or the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français, France’s national state-owned railway company. has selected a young Fintech firm AlmaPay to power its payments, including payments in installments or BNPL. SNCF is ubiquitous and widely utilized in France, generating almost €40 billion in… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 1:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

European Commission Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union Mairead McGuinness, says the United States needs to pick up the pace and create bespoke rules for digital assets or crypto assets. The European Union is moving forward with its Markets in Crypto… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

GoCardless, which claims to be a global leader in direct bank payments, has signed Crowdz, the small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) finance platform, “as its latest customer as the company looks to integrate open banking to enhance its ability to drive equitable access to finance… Read More

October 19, 2022 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) was slammed for its authoritarian Acceptable Use Policy that was slotted to take effect next month. PayPal decided that it could charge users $2500 – per infraction – if they said or commented on anything PayPal did not concur. PayPal’s… Read More