May 30, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has extended access to Business Savings from Mastercard to business debit card customers. Business Savings is a merchant discount program “provided by Mastercard which gives small business customers access to merchant offers when paying with an eligible Business Mastercard at merchants participating in the… Read More

May 30, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Three in ten SME finance professionals (28%) report that the most requested loan amount at the start of 2024 was over £100,000, 56% higher than the same period last year, according to iwoca’s Q1 2024 SME Expert Index. The new research, conducted with SME finance… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global enabler of  in real-time cross-border payments, announced today that HappyEasyGo, an online travel agency, has selected it for virtual card payments. Launched in 2017, HappyEasyGo claims that it “has emerged as one of the fastest-growing flight and hotel booking platforms in Asia,… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 5:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Riot Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: RIOT) announced that it has made a proposal to the Bitfarms Board of Directors to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Bitfarms Ltd. (NASDAQ: BITF) at a price of US$2.30 per Bitfarms common share. Riot also announced that it has… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 3:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

While the US Congress has a pending ban on China-owned TikTok (ByteDance), if the company is sold to a US entity, it may still operate in the country. The fear is the tendrils of the Chinese Communist Party are utilizing TikTok to garner data from… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 2:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xapo Bank, the “fully” licensed bank that makes it simple for members to bank with Bitcoin, today announces that it has integrated further with the Lightning Network to facilitate Bitcoin deposits into members’ Bitcoin accounts. The integration provides an additional method “to deposit Bitcoin from… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 2:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fabrick, an open finance operating company, this week announced the acquisition of finAPI GmbH, a German open finance solutions provider. Founded in Munich in 2008 to develop solutions for the aggregation and analysis of financial data, finAPI serves more than 350 clients, including banks, financial… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital on Tap, the small business credit card and spend management platform trusted by over 200,000 businesses, has expanded its partnership with Plaid to the United Kingdom. This builds upon Capital on Tap and Plaid’s successful partnership in the US, “which began back in January… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced its strategic partnership with Footprint, a unified onboarding platform for identity, fraud and security. The addition of Footprint to Treasury Prime’s Partner Marketplace will “provide banks and their fintech clients access to Footprint’s Know Your Customer (KYC)… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 11:48 am By JD Alois  |  

SeedBlink, a European securities crowdfunding provider approved under ECSPR, has announced an updated platform—an all-in-one equity management and investment platform. SeedBlink aims to boost equity ownership in Europe, which lags behind compared to US investors. SeedBlink says the updated platform will allow issuers and investors to… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 11:26 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset firm Uphold is now offering a white-label service for issuers and other platforms to leverage digital assets. The crypto exchange is said to serve “millions” of customers in over 14 different countries. The Uphold-as-a-Service is said to offer services beyond digital asset offerings,… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced new leadership appointments that will drive the creation of a new advertising platform and strengthen the company’s consumer value proposition. Mark Grether will reportedly join “on May 28 as SVP, General Manager, PayPal Ads, and John Anderson has joined… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcheck is one of the foundational firms that entered the securities crowdfunding sector, supporting issuers and platforms that enable online capital formation. Crowdcheck is probably the top legal services firm preparing Reg A+ documents for issuers, which the Securities and Exchange Commission must qualify for… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 9:23 am By JD Alois  |  

While everyone knows that digital securities are the future, the path to shift from the analog past to the digital asset future has been a circuitous path. Today, DTCC, Euroclear, and Clearstreem have announced they are working with the Boston Consulting Group to produce a… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Karim Haji, Global and UK Head of Financial Services at KPMG, comments on today’s March Money and Credit statistical release from the Bank of England. Karim noted: “A rise in consumer borrowing in March signals that many stretched households continue to battle the cost of… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bullish Group, the provider of digital asset market infrastructure and information services, and operator of one of the regulated digital asset exchanges, is pleased to announce key leadership changes aimed at driving the company’s strategic growth and innovation. David Bonanno appointed CFO Effective immediately, David… Read More

May 29, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has agreed an £100m increase to its existing ENABLE Guarantee transaction with leading fintech Oxbury Bank – a UK bank with a singular focus on farmers, food production and the rural economy. The original £100m transaction, announced in November 2023, and… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 10:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Onbe, a corporate payouts platform, recently published its Spring 2024 Title, Escrow and Mortgage Payments Survey. It suggests that home buyers overwhelmingly prefer digital payouts; 92% of respondents stated receiving a digital refund would be more convenient compared to waiting for a check in the… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 7:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Intelligent Money Ltd., a SIPP provider, has entered administration. The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) posted today that the authorized firm entered administration after the Financial Ombudsman Service upheld the final decision pertaining to the platform’s operations. Simultaneously, the company revealed that Quai Administration Services… Read More

May 28, 2024 @ 5:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (NASDAQ: NCPL), a digital private capital markets ecosystem, today announced the entry into definitive agreements for the immediate exercise of certain outstanding Series A-2 warrants “to purchase up to an aggregate of 14,320,000 shares of common stock of the company originally issued in… Read More