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February 28, 2024 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) and Citi (NYSE:C) have become the first institutional investors in United Fintech Group Limited, a neutral Digital Transformation Platform, as part of a strategic investment round led by Citi. United Fintech is also in advanced talks “with other leading strategic investors… Read More

February 16, 2024 @ 12:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE:C) says it has successfully completed a proof of concept regarding the tokenization of private funds. The firm partnered with WisdomTree and Wellington Management on the project. Tokenization refers to the digitization of assets, including securities. Typically, a tokenized asset will utilize blockchain or… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ChargeAfter, the embedded lending platform for point-of-sale financing announced that Citi Retail Services, one of North America’s largest and most experienced retail payments and credit solution providers, selected ChargeAfter as a technology provider “for its Citi Pay products, including Citi Pay Credit and Citi Pay… Read More

December 13, 2023 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has led a strategic investment round in Supra. Far Out Ventures and H20 Capital also participated in the financing round. Supra is a Colombian fintech that “enables cross-border payments and treasury solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that participate in import… Read More

December 7, 2023 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced it will collaborate with Traydstream, a provider of innovative trade documentation solutions to “provide clients with access to a cutting edge and automated trade-document processing capability.” The collaboration provides clients “with an opportunity to leverage a vast array of pre-loaded… Read More

November 26, 2023 @ 9:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) announced it has successfully completed the sale and full migration of its Indonesia consumer businesses to UOB Indonesia (UOBI). The sale includes retail banking, credit card, and unsecured lending businesses, “as well as the transfer of employees.” Citi and UOB first announced… Read More

November 15, 2023 @ 7:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Defacto, the instant, embedded B2B lending platform, has raised an additional €10 million from new investor Citi Ventures and existing investors Northzone, Headline and Global Founders Capital to bolster its Series A funding. This investment will be used “to transform Defacto’s instant lending platform into… Read More

October 22, 2023 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi and Navan, a modern travel and expense management solution, announced the launch of a new, jointly branded travel and expense system designed for Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) cardholders. The strategic agreement, which “combines Navan’s all-in-one solution and Citi’s leading commercial card solutions, leverages the… Read More

October 11, 2023 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Versana announced that founding investor Citi (NYSE: C) is now connected to its transformative digital data platform, “enabling syndicated loans agented by Citi to be available to Versana’s growing subscriber base in real-time.” Citi joins Versana’s other three founding investors – Bank of America, Credit… Read More

September 18, 2023 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Securities Services announced that it has become the first digital custodian participant of BondbloX Bond Exchange (BBX), the fractional bond exchange using the latest in distributed ledger technology. BBX was launched in 2020 to simplify bond investing by “allowing investors to track and trade… Read More

July 21, 2023 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has launched its Trade and Working Capital eLoans solution for its U.S. CCB clients. The solution is designed to help clients “meet their current and projected working capital needs through loan advances via Citi’s easy to use and secure eLoans platform.” The… Read More

July 12, 2023 @ 2:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced the launch of a new platform, CitiDirect Commercial Banking, specifically to address the needs of Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) clients. This is part of Citi’s significant strategic investment plan “to meet the growing global needs of these clients by delivering… Read More

June 18, 2023 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) and Pismo, the next-gen banking and payments software company, jointly announced their relationship in which Citi will use Pismo’s technology platform to help strengthen Citi’s corporate demand deposit accounts (DDA), to clients worldwide. Citi TTS continues “to migrate its… Read More

April 9, 2023 @ 4:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced the launch of a new sustainable time deposit solution designed to assist U.S. institutional clients when investing excess cash while supporting their sustainability goals. Citi’s new Sustainable Time Deposit (TD) will “deliver competitive yields and supports projects identified under Citi’s… Read More

March 2, 2023 @ 7:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Citi (NYSE: C) are collaborating to introduce the Bridge built by Citi platform (Bridge) to Walmart’s 10,000 small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in their US-based supplier network. Bridge is “a digital platform that connects SMBs with a diverse group of more… Read More

February 24, 2023 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CitiFX has consolidated its portfolio of eFX trading platforms for corporate and professional investor clients. Velocity 3.0, the new single dealer is “an operating system that delivers CitiFX Pulse, Citi Velocity Trading, Citi Velocity Research and CitiFX Click.” The platform “rebuilds CitiFX’s client user interface… Read More

January 23, 2023 @ 9:29 am By JD Alois  |  

In a move that should come as no surprise – except for the delay in moving forward on the strategy – the big banks that helped to found Zelle are creating their own digital wall, according to a report. The seven banks, including Citi, Bank… Read More

October 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wildfire Systems Inc., a Fintech platform that powers white-label reward programs and shopping companions, announced that it has secured a strategic investment from Citi Ventures. The funding will “support Wildfire’s technological innovation and continued ability to deploy new features that will drive rewarding online shopping… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spring by Citi, Citi’s (NYSE: C) digital payments service enabling eCommerce and B2B funds flows launched in the U.S. in 2020, has now been fully “integrated with Citi Present and Pay, Citi’s electronic bill presentment platform.” The combined solution “offers comprehensive digital payment acceptance and… Read More

October 11, 2022 @ 10:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions announced its intent to launch “24/7 Clearing” as a service to its financial institution clients, “beginning with 24/7 USD Clearing in Q4 2022.” This new service is “designed to enable Citi’s clients to make USD payments across Citi’s 1,500 financial… Read More