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Trent Sorbe from FIBT Shares Insights on Regulatory Shortcomings of Banking as a Service (BaaS)

  Trent Sorbe, Chief Payments Officer at First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), has shared key insights with CI. Kotapay, a division of First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), has launched Kavinu, a direct-to-bank BaaS platform that eliminates the “instability of middleware-reliant models.” By re-centering… Read More

Troubled German Fintech Solaris Needs Money or Potential Sale of Business

European Fintech firm Solaris in reportedly seeking additional funding to maintain its operations. The German banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform is said to looking for an emergency capital injection of £100 million. Solaris reportedly aims to put its business up for sale should it fail to acquire… Read More

Fintech Thought Machine’s Vault Core Chosen By SEB Embedded for BaaS Offering

SEB Embedded, the banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platform of Tier 1 Swedish bank SEB, chooses Thought Machine’s cloud-native core banking platform, Vault Core, to power its new BaaS offering. Using Vault Core, SEB Embedded launched a banking service for its first client, Hemköp, one of Sweden’s supermarket… Read More

Banking as a Service Fintech Treezor Obtains PCI DSS Certification for Card Issuing

Treezor, the enabler of Banking-as-a-Service, became one of the first BaaS providers to obtain PCI DSS certification for card issuing. This certification “testifies” to Treezor’s operational and technical capacity to comply with the most “demanding” security standards and paves the way for developing new card-related… Read More

Neil Chandler, CEO of Aion Bank, Shares Perspective on Banking as a Service (BaaS) and its Ongoing Evolution

Neil Chandler, CEO of Aion Bank, recently shared his opinions with CI on the evolution of Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and why he believes we are primed for BaaS 2.0. Change is afoot in the embedded banking space – BaaS is transitioning from its former status as… Read More

Finitilect Says it Now Offers Hyper-Personalized Banking Solutions

Fintilect, a banking service provider serving both UK and US banks and other financial services firms, says it is now offering a new generation of “hyper-personalized banking solutions. The company claims that its platform will enable its clients to recognize and communicate with their individual… Read More

Temenos Adds Visa to the Temenos Exchange

Banking platform Temenos (SIX: TEMN) is partnering with Visa to integrate Visa Direct, a Visa money movement solution. The service will be integrated within the Temenos Payments Hub and made available to banks via Temenos Exchange. Last month, Temenos announced the addition of Mastercard Move… Read More

Libro Credit Union Selects nCino’s Cloud Banking Platform

nCino, a provider of cloud banking for the global financial services industry, announced this week that Libro Credit Union, one of the largest credit unions in the Canadian province of Ontario, has selected nCino’s Cloud Banking Platform. Libro serves more than 117,000 owners via 34… Read More

TabaPay Acquires Assets of Synapse Financial Following Bankruptcy Filing

TabaPay will acquire the assets of Synapse Financial Technologies following the decision of the firm to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The courts must first approve the agreement. The specific terms were not revealed. TabaPay is a payments and transfers Fintech that reportedly provides services… Read More

Alloy for Embedded Finance Launches for Fintechs to Address Identity and Compliance Risks

Alloy, the identity risk management company behind nearly 600 banks and fintech companies, today announced Alloy for Embedded Finance, a new product custom-designed for sponsor banks, BaaS providers, and their fintech partners to collaboratively manage identity risk and stay ahead of regulatory requirements. Oftentimes, sponsor… Read More

Layer2 Financial, a BaaS Infrastructure Platform, Teams Up with Evita, a Cross-Border Payments Service

Layer2 Financial, a BaaS and payments infrastructure technology, is announcing a strategic partnership with Evita, a B2B cross-border payments solution specializing in large transactions. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in “the financial technology landscape, leveraging the strengths of both entities to streamline and optimize… Read More

US Financial Institutions Expected to Invest in AI Adoption, Banking as a Service, Embedded Finance – Report

Finastra’s annual survey reveals that, despite global economic uncertainty, US financial institutions are primed to invest in artificial intelligence (AI), Banking as a Service (BaaS) and embedded finance, “striking an optimistic tone for innovation.” The ‘Financial Services: State of the Nation Survey 2023’ finds that… Read More

Fintech Cross River, Current to Enable Financial Inclusion, Serving Underbanked US Consumers

Cross River Bank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, and Current, a U.S. fintech platform dedicated to empowering Americans in their pursuit of a brighter financial future, today announced the launch of a new credit building product. Together, the two companies will… Read More

Payments Infrastructure Platform NovoPayment Introduces Orchestra, a Middleware Layer to Meet Demand from Financial Institutions

NovoPayment, a mission-critical financial and payments infrastructure provider, released Orchestra 2.0, an advanced cloud-based middleware orchestration layer of its BaaS platform. Orchestra is designed “to help financial institutions quickly modernize their infrastructure in a more secure, scalable, and cost-effective way.” The solution enhancements “include more… Read More

Fintech Firm Cheqly Launches Digital Banking Services By Leveraging Mbanq’s BaaS Platform

Mbanq, the US-based Fintech innovator and global Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, has announced that Cheqly, a Fintech that makes banking simple for startups, has launched utilizing Mbanq’s BaaS platform. With this partnership, Cheqly provides its customers “with an improved banking experience that is specifically focused on… Read More

BaaS Fintech Bankable Acquires Embedded Finance Firm Arex Markets

Banking-as-a-Service Fintech Bankable has reportedly acquired Arex Markets, giving the combined business entity the capability to effectively embed credit and working capital into the payment channels of major neobanks, multinational/global brands as well as Fintech platforms. Financial terms of the transactions have not been shared… Read More

Qorbis, an Embedded Finance and Fintech Personalization Service Provider, Teams Up with Mbanq

Qorbis, an innovator in end-to-end embedded finance and Fintech personalization, announces its partnership with Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider, Mbanq, “to create a unique financial control and brand enhancement platform for clients.” Already live at the alpha-testing stage, the solution is unique in its flexibility for brands:… Read More

Philippines: Netbank, Remittance Companies to Support Low-Cost Transfers from Overseas to Local Bank Accounts

Netbank, the banking as a service platform, has launched a service that allows international remittance companies to facilitate overseas remittances into the Philippines. The market for Philippine Peso remittances “is huge since there is a large number of Filipino migrant workers all around the globe.”… Read More

UK Fintech Griffin Secures $13.5M via Series A Led by MassMutual Ventures

Griffin, the UK’s full-stack Banking as a Service platform, announced that it has raised $13.5 million (£11 million) in a Series A funding round “led by global VC firm, MassMutual Ventures, with participation from existing investors Seedcamp, Notion Capital and EQT Ventures.” This investment round… Read More

Digital Bank Grasshopper, Sydecar to Power Banking for Venture Investors

Grasshopper, the client-first digital bank built for the business and innovation economy, and Sydecar, a frictionless deal execution platform for venture investors, announced a partnership to provide Sydecar’s venture investing clients with access to digital banking products through Grasshopper’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. The partnership fulfills… Read More

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