April 25, 2024 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Commenting on the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)’s strategic approach to the use of Artificial Intelligence in the UK financial services sector, Karim Haji, global and UK head of financial services at KPMG, said: “It’s hard to overstate the potential capabilities of AI for a… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 4:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced the U.S. launch of its payment acceptance solution. U.S.-based merchants can use the service “to accept payments from domestic and international customers.” Additionally, foreign merchants with U.S. entities can “provide a localized payment… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BitGo says it is changing from default wrapped segwit (P2SH-P2WSH) receive addresses to native segwit (P2WSH), which “require 25% less data to spend — translating to lower fees.” Since the beginning, BitGo has supported “both native segwit and wrapped segwit Bitcoin addresses.” However, many clients… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 10:45 am By Michael Wong  |  

Wealthtech startup Midas, which specializes in democratizing retail investing, has secured $45 million in Series A funding to expand its financial services offerings. The funding round was led by Toronto-based venture capital firm Portage, known for its significant investments in the Fintech sector, including a… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 10:06 am By Michael Wong  |  

New York-based Fintech firm Finsight Group Inc announced its acquisition of T-REX, a cloud-native platform known for its capabilities in modeling and managing complex investments across private credit, structured credit, and project finance. The acquisition includes the onboarding of Benjamin Cohen, founder and CEO of… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 9:40 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Smart Pension, which claims to be one of the UK’s leading workplace pension providers, has appointed Claire Misata as Business Development Director. Claire will lead relationship development for Smart Pension “with trustees and Employee Benefit Consultants (EBCs). Her appointment follows Smart Pension’s recent announcement that… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 9:24 am By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital, a federally regulated bank, has announced a new crypto settlement service called Atlas or Anchorage Digital Trusted Liquidity and Settlement. Atlas will be able to settle both US dollars and digital assets and includes OTC settlement, OTC margin/collateral management, and off-exchange settlement.  Anchorage… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced more than 50 new features at its annual user conference, Stripe Sessions, held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Last year, Stripe says it had “processed more than $1 trillion in payments for millions of users,… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global Fintech with over 8 million UK customers and 40 million globally has today announced it expects to boost its global headcount by 40% in 2024. The announcement comes as Revolut reportedly “reaches 10,000 employees globally and continues to grow its workforce, all… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 8:59 am By Michael Wong  |  

Thailand-based payment solution company T2P Co Ltd announced a strategic partnership with Wise Platform, an infrastructure provider for banks, Fintechs, and enterprises. Announced Thursday, this alliance positions T2P as the first in Thailand to offer international money transfers without exchange rate markups or hidden fees… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank has revealed it has lent over £500 million in asset finance. Having launched its asset finance arm in January 2021, Allica says “over the past 12 months it has lent almost double the amount it lent in the previous two years combined.” This comes… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 7:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Offline payments, Square’s no-connection-required solution to deliver continuous commerce connectivity, is now available to Square sellers using every hardware device, and in every country. Whether in a remote location or facing a technology disruption, now nearly every Square seller can continue “to operate business-as-usual and… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the ad-subsidized payments network (ASPN), announces that it has extended its collaboration with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the rollout of Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation across the Zilch proposition. Zilch will continue to use AWS AI and ML services “to transform… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill are charged with operating Samourai Wallet, an unlicensed money transmitting business that reportedly executed over $2 billion in unlawful transactions and allegedly “laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds.” Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 4:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages, the UK’s platform for mortgages, has cut rates across its Residential Mortgage suite as it goes further “to support homebuyer customers who may struggle to get a mortgage on the high street.” LendInvest notes in a blog post that the range now starts… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Societies, the unified SME (small and medium enterprises) digital finance platform in Southeast Asia, announced a partnership with Singapore E-Business (SGeBIZ) – a digital procurement, payment and sourcing platform provider – to bring B2B (business-to-business) embedded finance (EmFi) solutions to businesses in Singapore, that… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To accelerate its growth in the United States and its presence in the fast-expanding online gaming market, Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, is proud to announce that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tilia LLC, an all-in-one payments platform. Tilia is licensed in… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iLex, the loan distribution platform, announced today the appointment of Sean Tai as Head of Business Development. Sean will lead the development, commercialization and “adoption of the iLex loan distribution platform globally and reinforce the iLex executive team in delivering its ambitious roadmap.” Based in… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Upflow is pleased to announce that we’ve secured $5 million in new funding to bring Payments by Upflow to market. This Series A extension will help them “bring the best of consumer e-commerce to B2B payments.” Designed specifically for B2B businesses, Payments… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xero, the global small business platform, released its latest Xero Small Business Insights (XSBI) quarterly update for Canada, based on data from October to December 2023. The data showed that Canada’s small business sales decline “may be levelling off, which is an encouraging signal for… Read More