August 10, 2022 @ 3:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Payrailz, “adding the company’s next-generation digital payment capabilities, including real-time person-to-person (P2P) payments, to Jack Henry’s payments ecosystem.” Based in Glastonbury, Conn., Payrailz provides cloud-native, API-first, AI-enabled… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 12:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Mike Crosbie, Chief Business Officer of poundtoken (GBPT), an issuer of a British Pound-backed stablecoin, has distributed a comment on the Bank of England’s recent missives on crypto asset risks. Like other central government regulators, the Bank of England has been keenly observing the emerging… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 11:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Chair of the House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters, has sent a letter to Equifax demanding to know how they managed to distribute bogus credit scores. Representative Waters issued the following statement on the debacle: “I am alarmed at recent news reporting that for… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Modular house creator Boxabl continues to push higher in its securities offering on StartEngine. According to an email from StartEngine, Boxabl raised over one million dollars last week and is currently over $18 million. As of this writing, Boxabl has raised $18.5 million from over… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 11:23 am By JD Alois  |  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced an enforcement action against Hello Digit (or just Digit), a neobank that claims to be the “first truly personalized and automated savings tool.” At the end of 2021, Hello Digit was acquired by Opportun. According to the… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset prime brokerage Genesis has published its Q2 report sharing some interesting insight into crypto markets. According to Genesis, crypto lending declined while OTC trading rocketed higher. Genesis shares: The lending desk originated $40.4 billion in new loans, a decline of 9% from the… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

GraniteShares has announced the listing of multiple single share ETFs on the Nasdaq, including one for Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). GraniteShares first launched leveraged ETFs on single stocks in the UK in 2019. While ETFs started as a less expensive path for a diversified portfolio of assets,… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the UK-based Fintech with over 7 million customers, recently announced that 50 new receiving countries have been “introduced to its global payments network since the start of 2022.” These additional payments corridors “mean that Paysend customers can now send money to over 170 countries… Read More

August 10, 2022 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK’s Atom Bank reveals that they’ve become a Registered Firm with the Lending Standards Board, a body “dedicated to upholding fair practices in the lending industry.” Head of Business Lending at Atom Bank, Tom Renwick, has provided more details and “explains what… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 11:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clara, the Latin American tech startup that offers an end-to-end corporate spend management solution for companies in the region, has announced an “approved” financing round from Goldman Sachs for “an initial $50 million with the option to upsize to $150 million.” The facility will “allow… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Open document and data platform specialist Legado has acquired the consumer and B2B bill management tech from WonderBill. Launched in 2016, London-based WonderBill “allowed consumers to manage all their household bills and subscriptions.” The company was “backed by Shell Ventures, Shell’s corporate venture capital arm.”… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Crypto.com, which claims to be the world’s “fastest-growing” cryptocurrency platform, announced that it has secured Electronic Financial Transaction Act and Virtual Asset Service Provider registration by “acquiring payment service provider ‘PnLink Co., Ltd.’ and virtual asset service provider ‘OK-BIT Co., Ltd.’.” Kris Marszalek, Co-Founder and… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 9:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Geopagos, the payment acceptance infrastructure that claims to have the most “comprehensive” omnichannel offering in LatAm, recently revealed that it has acquired $35 million in equity funding via a round led by Riverwood Capital, an international investor in high-growth tech firms, along with contributions from… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neobanks are starting to really shake up the Fintech sector with their latest technologies and  business models. Sometimes called “challenger banks,” neobanks are basically Fintechs that provide financial services in an all-digital environment and/or through a mobile app, without needing physical branch locations. During the… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  We recently caught up with Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of the Concordium Foundation and founder of Saxo Bank. He talked about the future of Internet domains. With the rise of technologies such as blockchain/DLT, crypto, and the Metaverse, Lars believes that traditional top-level domains… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 5:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN), the first and only publicly traded crypto exchange in the US, has announced its Q2  2022 financial results, which delivered a decline in both the top and bottom line. Shares in after-hours trading declined by over 4% in an overall down market day…. Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 4:25 pm By JD Alois  |  

On August 2nd, 2022, the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) met to discuss secondary trading of crowdfunded securities. While most industry insiders believe that providing liquidity via a trading platform for private securities issued under certain exemptions makes a lot of sense,… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 1:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aqua Global has been offering financial messaging solutions for more than 35 years, specializing in straight through processing for payments along with treasury and securities processing. Aqua’s newest suite Aquila has evolved from the successes/progress of its e2gen suite, but unlike e2gen, which was mainly… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fortress Blockchain Technology has raised a $22.5 million seed round to pursue its vision for B2B infrastructure for Web3. Fortress Blockchain was founded by Scott Purcell, the individual who founded the successful custody and infrastructure Fintech – Prime Trust. The funding was led by Ayon… Read More

August 9, 2022 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Starting next month, Dealmaker, an online investment platform, will seek to engage investors in the US and Canada to back firms raising capital that are based in the UK. Dealmaker claims that it is the “only platform now built for international capital market raises.” UK… Read More