June 27, 2022 @ 6:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Neobank/digital bank Revolut will roll out its buy now – pay later (BNPL) product starting with Ireland. Revolut is entering a rather crowded market but is providing a service that has dramatically increased in popularity in recent years. According to Revolut Ireland as of last… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 2:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open Banking Fintech Volt, a UK-based company powering the growth of real-time payments in the UK and Europe, is launching Verify, which is described as “an ultrafast bank account authentication service for online merchants and businesses.” As confirmed in the update, Volt is launching Verify… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 2:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Accounting firms are missing a “key opportunity” to adopt Open Banking to help meet the needs of small businesses facing a cash flow squeeze, according to a report by iwoca, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, and AccountingWeb. The report,… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 1:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Börse has entered into a cooperation agreement with Kaiko, a crypto market data provider, to make their consolidated crypto data feed “directly accessible to its customers.” In Q4, historical L2 tick-level orderbook data on a T+1 basis and live trade data “will be made… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 1:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The IFRS Foundation Trustees have appointed Jeffrey Hales―SASB Standards Board Chair and Accounting Professor at University of Texas―and Michael Jantzi―VRF Board Director and Sustainalytics founder and former CEO― “as members of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), effective July 2022.” Their appointments “make the ISSB… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 12:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Splitit (ASX: SPT) and Everyware, a contactless payments and customer engagement solutions company, have agreed to a partnership “to bring Splitit’s Installments-as-a-Service platform to Everyware’s Pay By Text platform eliminating consumer friction for mobile installments.” Everyware will integrate Splitit’s Installments-as-a-Service into its platforms “to deliver… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 11:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

Fund That Flip, a real estate investment and financing marketplace, has been recognized as a top place to work by Cleveland.com. The Mid-western venture ranked in 1st place among midsized companies for 2022. Fund that Flip is said to currently employ 230 individuals including 140… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 11:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Surecomp recently announced that two financial institutions have subscribed to its newly launched RIVO platform “for collaborative trade finance.” DZ Bank is the first bank “to sign-up, alongside the leading provider of guarantee insurance in the Nordics.” Frankfurt-based DZ BANK – which also acts as… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small business credit platform Tillful, backed by ING Ventures, Experian Ventures, Bitrock Capital, and Katalyst Ventures, announced that it’s partnering with Experian to help establish credit profiles for businesses that “are new to credit or otherwise credit invisible, and thereby potentially expand the range of… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 8:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management industries, announced that Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) has made a strategic investment in the company, “deepening a partnership that began in 2018.” iCapital will use the… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 8:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ESG Book, which focuses on sustainability data and technology, has announced that it closed $35 million in Series B funding. The new capital will be used “to advance ESG Book’s next-generation technology capabilities, enabling clients to meet increasingly complex sustainability requirements, and accelerate the company’s… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 7:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Solana Mobile, a subsidiary of Solana Labs, recently debuted Solana Mobile Stack, which is described as “an open source software toolkit for Android enabling native Android web3 apps on Solana with the Seed Vault secure custody protocol that facilitates instant signing of transactions while keeping… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kasheesh, a “first-to-market” digital payment platform, allows people to split payment for online purchases “across multiple combinations of debit and credit cards in any way they want, without added cost or interest hikes.” As part of its launch, Kasheesh has also announced it has raised… Read More

June 26, 2022 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Glia, the provider of Digital Customer Service, has acquired Finn AI, the AI-powered chatbot platform for banks and credit unions. The deal aims to mainstream virtual assistants for financial services companies “by making Finn AI’s proven conversational AI solutions an integral part of Glia’s …… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Breega, the European VC built “by founders for founders,” has closed a €250 million venture fund and now celebrates the launch of a Barcelona office along with its London and Paris locations. The fund should enable Breega to finance founders at Series A stage and… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 7:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra recently announced that Rabobank – a large international financial services group headquartered in the Netherlands – has selected “the latest version of Fusion Global PAYplus for increased efficiency and innovation in payments.” Finastra‘s payments hub will also “help the bank migrate to the new… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 4:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

While some people say a proverbial “soft landing” is possible for the economy a growing number of people are expecting a recession as soon as this year or perhaps in 2023. As a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth, and the fact that… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recognizing the growth of digital markets alongside the continued “evolution” of the traditional securities services marketplace, Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) recently announced the formation of its Digital Assets and Financial Markets group, which will be led by Justin Chapman who “currently is global head of… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alviere, the provider of enterprise software solutions for embedded finance that enables brands to deliver a full suite of financial products and services to customers, fans, and employees, announced it has secured financing from Silicon Valley Bank, the bank of the world’s “most innovative” companies… Read More

June 25, 2022 @ 4:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ATMIA has announced the appointment of David Tente as the next President of the ATM Security Association (ASA) from July 1, 2022. He succeeds outgoing President, Mike Lee, “who is retiring as CEO of ATMIA, which runs ASA, at the end of June.” Tente will… Read More