January 12, 2024 @ 2:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pacaso, the technology-enabled real estate marketplace that helps people buy, co-own, and sell a vacation home, announces its operational expansion into Paris, marking the company’s inaugural entry into the vibrant French real estate landscape. With the introduction of Paris, Pacaso marks its “expansion into 40… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 1:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nu México is launching the option to receive money from the United States, in association with Felix Pago. This strategic alliance with Felix Pago simplifies “the process of sending money from the United States to Mexico and revolutionizes the landscape of cross-border money transfers, taking… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 12:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DeFi Technologies Inc., a crypto native technology company that pioneers the convergence of traditional capital markets with the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), is pleased to announce the signing of a binding letter of intent to acquire Reflexivity Research LLC, a private research firm that… Read More

January 12, 2024 @ 12:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, has partnered with multifi, the UK-based cashflow management platform, in order “to provide UK-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with an enhanced international payment solution, allowing them to seamlessly convert and send funds to their global… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 11:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, announced an exclusive partnership with Evolve, a vacation rental hospitality company with more than 30,000 properties in 750 markets. Now, eligible travelers can book vacation rentals and pay over time “with… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Salmon, a fintech working to improve access to credit, savings and investments for over 500 million underserved customers in Southeast Asia, announces that it has received regulatory approval from the Monetary Board of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in order to “acquire the controlling… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant move towards modernizing business-to-business (B2B) payment processes, PayMate India SPC, a B2B digital payments company, has signed a Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with the National Bank of Oman (NBO) in order “to digitize, automate, and streamline B2B payments using Visa Business Credit… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pismo, a provider of a cloud-native and API-based platform for financial services, announces a significant milestone in its growth journey. Australian fintech Tyro Payments is “adopting the Pismo payment-processing platform to enhance its product portfolio.” Tyro, which reportedly specializes “in merchant credit, debit, and EFTPOS… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 6:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

Senator Elizabeth Warren has taken to X to express her displeasure with the Securities and Exchange Commission’s decision to approve eleven Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). These funds started trading today after being approved yesterday, experiencing solid trading demand. Warren, a policymaker who is no fan… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With an anticipated drop in interest rates in the months to come, many homeowners may soon begin tapping the equity that “has built up in their homes as a result of today’s historically high property values,” according to an update from TransUnion. It is with… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 6:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT), a cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the U.S., announced today that it has partnered with Chimney, a fintech transforming how financial institutions use property data. Through this strategic partnership, financial institutions “can empower homeowners with the… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 6:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

Cyabra has announced that Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State and one-time CIA Director, has joined its Board of Directors. At the same time, Cyabra announced that it had completed a $5.7 million funding round. The securities offering was listed on the OurCrowd platform… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 6:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Payments Fintech Finzly says it saw transactions on its platform increase by 400%, driving top-line revenue to double during 2023. The company said the increase was generated by new customers and the growth in real-time payments driven by the introduction of FedNow. Finzly did not… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee has announced the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled: “Oversight of the SEC’s Proposed Climate Disclosure Rule: A Future of Legal Hurdles.” The hearing is scheduled to take place on Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 10 AM… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 5:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges against the CEO of Future Fintech Group (Nasdaq:FTFT). The Future Fintech Group is a financial and digital technology service provider that says it conducts asset management, brokerage, and investment banking services in Hong Kong, operates a… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New research recently shared by Fintech firm DailyPay with CI reportedly demonstrates the positive impact the firm’s products can “have for employers, many of whom are still challenged with a tight labor market.” According to the study commissioned by DailyPay, the earned wage access Fintech,… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 12:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finix, the payments technology provider enabling businesses to accept and send payments online or in-person, announced the launch of Payouts, its standalone product line. Payouts enables businesses across all industries to efficiently send money at scale, regardless of whether they utilize the broader Finix payments… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 12:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and CIBC announced a new collaboration that will enable the bank’s clients to send funds to family and friends across borders more conveniently. With the innovative money movement capabilities of Visa Direct, CIBC and Simplii clients will soon be able to send… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As expected by most industry analysts and also after an embarrassing false start (following the official SEC X account being “compromised”) the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finally approved 11 spot bitcoin ETF applications – which were submitted by traditional financial and crypto-focused… Read More

January 11, 2024 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius recently filed its intent to claw back a number of pre-bankruptcy withdrawal requests. The struggling cryptocurrency lender formally submitted an intent to claw back certain funds from clients that withdrew $100,000 or more during the 3 months prior to Celsius… Read More