February 22, 2024 @ 8:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT), a digital bank and fintech providing seamless banking and payments services to consumers and businesses, announced a new partnership with Dayforce, Inc. Through this partnership, Green Dot will serve “as the U.S. banking provider for Dayforce Wallet, the HCM company’s… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 7:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Western Union (NYSE: WU)  and Mercado Pago have announced growth in their existing relationship, giving United States and Canadian customers the ability to send money from Western Union’s mobile app, its website, or from one of its retail locations to Mercado Pago wallet accounts in… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 6:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank has announced the launch of a new payment hub that allows customers to conduct their transfers in a quick and efficient manner. ADIB has worked with the real-time payment solutions company, ProgressSoft, to facilitate the integration of Cross-Border Services and accelerate… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 6:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NAB welcomed the announcement by the Government to begin consultation on a draft Digital ID bill, an important milestone in advancing the Australian Digital Identity ecosystem. NAB Executive Digital Governance Brad Carr said “the move will help to protect customers and provide greater convenience.” Mr… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 6:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PhonePe announced the consumer launch of its Indus Appstore, at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. Indus Appstore is PhonePe’s attempt at creating “a more competitive and localized mobile app store economy for India, which is already the largest mobile apps download market globally.” The session… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra’s Filogix team has unveiled new generative AI (Gen AI) capabilities in its Expert Pro Canadian Mortgage Point of Sale (POS) solution. The function automates the creation of borrower narratives (notes) that “aids in lender underwriting – streamlining processes, saving time and minimizing errors for… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 5:38 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

Fundrise, a leading real estate investment Fintech platform, has been making waves in the investment landscape by democratizing access to alternative assets. In a recent interview on “Capital Ideas,” Chris Nanda, the Director of Growth Tech at Fundrise, shed light on the company’s founding story,… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 3:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

The European Union has doled out the new Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) to Frankfurt, Germany. According to the EU, nine member states were in the running for the new bureaucracy. The competing cities included; Belgium (Brussels), Germany (Frankfurt),… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As high-profile biometric breaches and violations make headlines, consumer comfort levels in sharing biometrics have declined significantly. According to GetApp’s 2024 Biometric Technologies Survey of 1,000 consumers, the number of individuals who highly trust tech companies to safeguard biometric data has absolutely “plummeted, falling from… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 12:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billhop AB, a card-enablement platform, is collaborating with Eurocard, a card issuer in the Nordics. The partnership will is expected to allow corporate clients within the Nordic region to pay any bill or invoice with Eurocard’s virtual cards. This payment approach enables businesses “to take… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 12:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Congressman Warren Davidson has taken to X to criticize Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), describing these types of digital assets as an “existential threat to Western civilization.”   Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is an existential threat to western civilization.@FinancialCmte passed a bill to ban… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 11:17 am By JD Alois  |  

While the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be trying to make it more difficult to be deemed an Accredited Investor, thus disenfranchising more individual investors, recently legislation was introduced into the US Senate that would broaden the definition. S 3709, or the “Investment Opportunity… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 9:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lenders are increasingly frustrated with OCR (optical character recognition) solutions that are designed to read data off paystubs, but they’re only pulling text from the documents. They also aren’t an end-to-end solution helping lenders comply with ECOA and Fair Lending. Many OCR tools also focus… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 8:40 am By JD Alois  |  

While SyndicateRoom is not posting all portfolio returns for individual firms for their various vintages, the online investment platform is selecting some of the most successful offerings as per current valuations. First, SyndicateRoom reports that their 2020 vintage is up by 47%, their  2021 cohort… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 8:23 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedBlink, a securities crowdfunding platform operating across Europe, says it has inked a partnership with Accumeo, a crowdfunding platform based in Sweden. Accumeo is registered with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority having obtained a license to conduct crowdfunding, operating under ECSPR,. Under the EU rules,… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 7:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has launched Robo-Advisor service in the EEA, to automate investing tailored to customer needs. The new product is advantageous for those who “don’t have the time to actively invest, or have limited or no trading experience.” Revolut’s Robo-Advisor assigns “a portfolio taking into account… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG UK and Blue J announced that they will launch a new generative AI powered product to answer challenging tax research questions in seconds. KPMG will have exclusive access “to the tool, Ask Blue J, among the big four accountancy firms in the UK for… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 7:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

wefox, which claims to be among the leading Insurtech firms, has appointed Dominik Ulrich as Chief Risk Officer (CRO), with immediate effect. Prior to this role Mr. Ulrich was working as Head of Internal Audit at wefox. Mr. Ulrich will now be expected to “lead… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE:NU), one of the largest financial services platforms in the world, has appointed Elita Ariaz as the new Chief Legal Officer of the company. With over 20 years of experience in the sector, the executive assumes the position to lead the Legal, Compliance, and Public… Read More

February 22, 2024 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Bob Wigley, the Chairman of UK Finance, has joined the Board of Directors of R3. UK Finance is a group that advocates on behalf of the UK financial services industry, representing over 300 individual firms. The group aims to drive innovation and help to shape… Read More