April 19, 2024 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hitoshi, Co-founder & Chief Product Officer at Alpaca notes that Alpaca has transitioned to self-clearing at DTCC. As noted in a blog post, this is a key milestone since they started “a regulated brokerage business five years ago.” It’s a pivotal milestone for them because this… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) announced a planned collaboration with FICO (NYSE: FICO),  a analytics software company, to launch a cloud-based real-time payment fraud prevention solution powered by FICO Falcon Fraud Manager. The joint offering would leverage both firms’ artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 10:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenization platform Tokeny has integrated with Telos EVM (Ethereum Virtual Machine)> In a blog post, the digital security enabler said that by integrating Telos EVM, it will expand its reach for issuers to tokenize assets with while benefiting from Telos’ blockchain technology. The integration is… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mercury, the fintech that is said to be used “over 100,000” startups for banking, announced its expansion into consumer banking with the launch of Mercury Personal, which is described as a powerful personal banking experience designed with the best of today’s technology to help builders… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The upcoming Bitcoin halving is expected to make a significant impact on cryptocurrency trading markets while a maturing digital assets ecosystem sees Ethereum (ETH) facing considerable competition from other smart contract platforms. A lot has changed since the BTC halving of 2020. In an environment… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pliant, a business-to-business (B2B) credit card platform that allows businesses to optimize their payment processes, has recently announced the closing of more than €18 million in Series A extension financing, led by PayPal Ventures. Existing investors SBI Investment, Motive Ventures, and Alstin Capital “also participated… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 9:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MARA), which claims to be one of the world’s largest publicly traded Bitcoin miners and a key player focused on supporting and securing the Bitcoin ecosystem, announced the appointment of Manoj Narender Madnani as Managing Director for the EMEA Region, where… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech Wise (LSE:WISE) has shared key updates from January-March 2024. The Wise Q1 2024 update has released important highlights for the Fintech platform. Here’s a few highlights: Wise says it helped customers “save an estimated £447,518, 882 in Q1.” Wise further claims that it… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

British Patient Capital has reportedly made a £7m investment in Wagestream – a financial benefits provider – as part of a £17.5m funding round. The investment was alongside other co-investors “including Lombard Odier Investment Managers and existing investor, Northzone.” With investment from social impact funds… Read More

April 19, 2024 @ 6:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DNA Payments has recently announced a key partnership in order to provide online retailers with high-performance, simple, unified payments by integrating DNA Payments’ acquiring and checkout solution with their E-commerce platform. DNA Payments’ feature-rich, customizable website checkout pages “offer easy integration with full technical support… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

HighRadius, the provider of Autonomous Finance software for Order-to-Cash, Treasury, and Record-to-Report, announced the launch of their B2B payments platform to improve payment processes across 100+ payment methods globally. The comprehensive B2B payments platform “encompasses a trio of essential products: Payment Gateway, Surcharge Management, and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the global fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the launch of iCapital Marketplace, a one-stop-shop connecting wealth managers and advisors “with a broad menu of alternative investment opportunities across private equity, private debt, infrastructure, real assets and… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Rene Siegl, Founder, Executive Chairman at IXOPAY, says that he’s pleased to share that IXOPAY and TokenEx are merging, beginning a new era in the optimization of global payment systems. According to Siegl, this merger combines IXOPAY’s payment orchestration solutions with TokenEx’s specialization in “the… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Varys Capital has partnered with FundRock Investment Management Services (ME) Ltd, a fund management company, licensed by the FSRA, to manage a feeder fund, Varys Capital Ventures (CEIC) Limited in the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The feeder fund will invest its assets into a… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abra, a global platform for digital asset prime services and wealth management, today announced the launch of its integrated offering for institutions, Abra Prime, and private clients, Abra Private, following approval from the SEC for its subsidiary, Abra Capital Management LP (ACM), to operate as… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

When it comes to buying investment properties millennials are not only the most active generation, but many are happy to go it alone, new data from CommBank has found. According to the data, 46 per cent of the banking institution’s new property investors in 2023… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 11:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

All of the Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee, as well as Democrat Senator Joe Manchin, have signed onto a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the SEC’s recent decision to introduce Climate Disclosure rules. These new rules are part of the ESG initiative at… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 7:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

After a strong 2023 Q4, the total crypto market cap continued rallying by +64.5% in 2024 Q1, reaching a high of $2.9 trillion on March 13, 2024, the team at CoinGecko noted in a new research report. CoinGecko has explained that in absolute terms, “the… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo announced the launch of BitGo Ventures, BitGo’s investment arm dedicated to seeking out and fostering partnerships with FinTech infrastructure companies and blockchain projects around the world. BitGo Ventures will invest in startups “that are building secure, scalable, and digital-native financial infrastructure solutions while prioritizing… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 7:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Interac Corp. announced it has entered into a strategic transaction to acquire the exclusive Canadian rights to use Toronto-based Vouchr Ltd.‘s engagement platform which enables users to send and receive personalized multi-media notifications along with their money transfers. With this strategic transaction, Interac intends to… Read More