April 29, 2024 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) Workforce Solutions continues to help businesses transform the employee experience with the launch of Forms HQ, a new offering designed to help automate the delivery, completion, and tracking of essential employee forms, “including those related to onboarding, tax withholding, state requirements, annual notices,… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mid-sized banks have a big opportunity to maximize revenue potential and improve client experiences by transitioning to embedded banking, and to realize the full benefits of this transition, they need to leverage virtual ledgers, a report by tech payments company Finzly and Datos found. The… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State chartered FDIC-insured bank and Equal Housing Lender known for its Commercial Banking Group (CBG) and real estate lending platform, has reportedly “closed over $200 million in originations in the first quarter of the year.” “True” to the company’s… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 2:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

Companies that raised money online using Reg CF or Regulation Crowdfunding must file Form C-AR by today (April 29, 2024). Form C-AR references the required filing of the company’s annual report. While there have been thousands of firms that have leveraged the JOBS Act securities… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 1:55 pm By JD Alois  |  

TerraPay and VM Money Transfer Services (VMTS) have partnered to offer services in Jamaica. According to a company release, the two firms will enable transfers for individuals looking to move money between Jamaica and much of the rest of the world. This new agreement means… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at digital asset firm OKX is announcing a strategic investment in CARV, which is described as one of the largest modular data layers for Gaming and AI. OKX noted in a blog post that they’re making their new investment in CARV, the largest… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DataVisor, an AI-powered fraud and risk platform, this week expanded its partnership with DCI, a provider of core processing, digital banking, and fintech solutions. DCI will now broaden the use of DataVisor’s fraud solutions to support more community banks across a variety of use cases. Since partnering with… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 11:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Real estate crowdfunding platform GenoCrowd has launched the fourth projectwith the AS Group of companies. The AS Group is a real estate investor, investment manager, and developer based in Berlin with subsidiaries in Hamburg, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Cologne, and Frankfurt am Main. The company focuses on… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 10:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V), a global digital payments provider, announced it has joined the AWS Partner Network (APN), a global community that leverages AWS technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and services for customers. Visa’s presence in the APN will help “enable its partners… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 10:20 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto mixer zkSNACKs and Wasabi Wallet service is now blocking US citizens from using its service. Crypto mixers have gained the ire of the US Department of Treasury, which believes that they are frequently used by bad actors to cover their tracks for nefarious activities…. Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 8:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the bull market continues, VC Brian D. Evans shares insights on how projects and founders can best approach and take advantage of the current bull run. He also comments on the difference in approach between a bull market in traditional finance vs. the crypto… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, unveiled its latest mobile banking software. Next Gen Mobile Banking, a new digital banking experience for community banks and credit unions, offers financial institutions customization options and enhanced security features. With Next Gen… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s fixed and programmatic supply function is on display as Bitcoin experienced its fourth halving last Friday evening, the team at NYDIG noted. As noted in the report from NYDIG, fees jump following the Bitcoin halving event, albeit temporarily, as Runes “makes its debut, breaking… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, FastSpring, a merchant of record for global SaaS and software companies, and EBANX, a global technology company specializing in payments for rising markets, announced a partnership to enhance users’ payment experience within FastSpring’s product suite in Latin America through local payment method Pix. Pix, Brazil’s instant payment… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:34 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Entrust, a provider of payments, identities, and data security, this week announced a single-vendor enhanced authentication solution that integrates identity verification (IDV) and identity and access management (IAM) to fight deepfakes, phishing, account takeover (ATO) attacks and other threats. By enhancing Entrust Identity as a… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mollie, which claims to be one of Europe’s fastest growing financial service providers, today published its 2023 financial results. In 2023, Mollie posted “a net revenue of €99 million, a growth of 36 percent compared to 2022.” This is due in part to attracting new… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liz Oakes has been appointed and Carolyn Wilkins has been reappointed as external members of the Financial Policy Committee (FPC), the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has announced. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, has appointed Liz Oakes as “an external member of… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Ireland is investing more than €4 million in a range of financial literacy initiatives as part of its long-running national Financial Wellbeing campaign. Over 2024 and 2025 this investment, with a particular “focus on youth financial literacy, will help equip people with the… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 11:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

British Business Investments announces a £15m facility to Catfoss Finance Limited. The transaction will be structured as “a block discounting agreement that will allow Catfoss to provide funding support to smaller businesses looking to acquire business-critical assets to accelerate their growth.” British Business Investments, a… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, announced a partnership with Uber, to offer millions of consumers Klarna’s convenient alternative payment methods across Uber’s ride-sharing and delivery platforms, Uber and Uber Eats. Live in the US, Germany, and Sweden, Klarna‘s Pay Now… Read More