April 30, 2022 @ 1:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) has announced a collaboration with Billtrust (NASDAQ: BTRS), a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated payments firm, in order to “enable suppliers to streamline acceptance of American Express virtual cards.” With this integration, suppliers will have the ability “to automate… Read More

April 30, 2022 @ 12:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KreditBee, which claims to be one of India’s “leading” Fintech platforms, recently announced the launch of ‘KreditBee 24K Gold’, a digital gold investment product. Clients may “securely” purchase digital gold “with 99.5% purity at live market rates with a single tap on the KreditBee app.”… Read More

April 30, 2022 @ 12:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FinGo, a biometric identity authentication solutions provider, is introducing FinGoVend, which is reportedly the first retail vending machine where users can now “pay and prove their age through a simple scan of their finger.” FinGo’s vein mapping tech “connects a person’s unique vein pattern to… Read More

April 30, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asia-Pacific is getting ready for the next phase of its real-time payments journey as the region’s key service providers look for new growth opportunities and prepare “to enter the next stage of their real-time payments development.” This, according to the third edition of Prime Time… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CoreChain Technologies, the “first” digital B2B payments network built on blockchain, has  announced that it acquired $4.2 million in seed funding. CoreChain’s investment round was reportedly led by Ulu Ventures along with contributions from other existing investors such as Connecticut Innovations, Bloccelerate VC and New… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sodexo Engage, which claims to be the “leading” employee engagement expert is teaming up with Wagestream, adding the charity-backed financial wellbeing app to its employee benefits platform. Via the collaboration, Sodexo Engage customers will be able to provide their people access to Wagestrean through its… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 5:33 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee (SBCFAC) has scheduled a meeting to discuss two specific topics: SPACs or Special Purpose Acquisition Companies and Climate Disclosure. The meeting will take place on Friday, May 6, 2022. According to a statement by… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 5:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

CoinList has announced the launch of CoinList Digital Asset Services. CoinList described the business line as a “new chapter ” for the digital asset firm. CoinList is a digital asset issuance ecosystem as well as a trading platform. The company has powered many big crypto… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 4:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Relai, a Bitcoin trading app, says it has quickly surpassed its offering goal on Crowdcube in just a few hours. According to the company, Relai reached its fundraising target on Crowdcube within the first few hours. Pepe Borrell, VP of international at Crowdcube, said that… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Steven Chiang a/k/a Cyrus Kong, Eric Tippetts, James Hardy, and Maurice “Butch” Chelliah in regards to an alleged digital asset offering that has been deemed an unregistered securities offering. According to the other SEC, the defendants raised… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:48 pm By JD Alois  |  

Insurtech Draftrs has announced professional liability insurance for smaller firms. According to a company statement, coverage is completed via a digital process with instant underwriting. Draftrs added that it is launching the professional liability insurance product specifically targeting architects and engineers, developed in collaboration with… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Genesis, a crypto asset spot and derivatives trading platform, has distributed a report on Q1 performance. According to Genesis, it was a record quarter in crypto derivatives trading in contrast to the lower crypto trading volumes and volatile market exacerbated by the war in Ukraine,… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BPC has announced its expansion into the Americas in order to support the payments and processing requirements of traditional financial institutions, payments processors, and Fintech firms. The company is launching its full suite of SaaS Cloud services “on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from Ashburn, Virginia,… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinFLEX, a crypto futures exchange and yield platform, has announced the launch of a US-facing marketplace CoinFLEX.US. CoinFLEX is ostensibly based in Seychelles. Based in Miami – a burgeoning Fintech hub, the US subsidiary will offer zero-fee trading and interest-earning stablecoin flexUSD. CoinFLEX is backed… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) reported earnings this week and they were dismal. Besides negative numbers on both the top and bottom lines, Robinhood reported that Monthly Active Users (MAUs) dropped by a whopping 10% going from 15.9 million in March 2022 from 17.7 million in March 2021…. Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 9:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Optty, which claims to be the first Buy Now, Pay Later integration platform, has in stealth raised more than $9 million in private funding and recently announced its solution “for retailers and payment gateway providers to revolutionize the fast-growing sector with transparency, simplicity, and speed.”… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 9:18 am By JD Alois  |  

This week the Times published an article on the Future Fund and its performance, slamming it for “over 30 failures.” Managed by the British Business Bank, the Future Fund was one of several COVID support programs designed to backstop firms impacted by the pandemic. The… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

EBA CLEARING, SWIFT and The Clearing House (TCH) announced that they intend to introduce a pilot service for “immediate” cross-border (IXB) payments “with the support of banks from both sides of the Atlantic.” The pilot service “is scheduled to begin by the end of this… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Varo Bank, N.A., which claims to be the first all-digital, nationally chartered bank in the US, has announced the appointment of Spencer Rascoff, Co-Founder and former CEO of Zillow to Varo’s Board of Directors. Rascoff joins Varo’s Board to continue “to scale Varo, a one-of-a-kind… Read More

April 28, 2022 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Evvio Inc., a Fintech firm focused on next-gen digital commerce, has announced its collaboration with Vite Labs, a “zero-fee” fast blockchain company. Evvio and Vite’s collaboration is “grounded in a shared vision that next generation e-commerce will eliminate the need for credit cards, bank accounts… Read More