Tagged: banking

October 19, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Asia Digital Bank Ltd. (Labuan Investment Bank), the first recipient of the Digital Banking license issued by Labuan Financial Services Authority in Malaysia and an international digital asset operator, announced a partnership with Bianjie, which is IRISnet’s Core team, and a Cosmos Core Contributor since… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 1:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Codat, the universal API for small business data that assists software providers and financial institutions with creating integrated products for their SME clients, has announced an integration partnership with the international tech platform Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU). This partnership will aim to bring about “a new… Read More

October 19, 2021 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FIBR, the connected virtual banking platform, has launched so that it can serve European SMEs, by combining the stability of a bank with the agility and technology of a Fintech service provider. Based in the Netherlands, FIBR is focused on lending to European SMEs. The… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos Transact Core Banking will be supporting product innovation and greater scalability and overall efficiency for Pakistan’s virtual payments platform Easypaisa. Telenor Microfinance Bank, which is the operator of Pakistan’s digital payments platform Easypaisa, has officially gone live on Temenos’ Core banking platform with NdcTech… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 7:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Zopa, a digital bank that started as a peer-to-peer lender, has raised $300 million (£220 million) in a funding round that reportedly gives the Fintech a $1 billion valuation. The deal is currently in the process of receiving regulatory approvals from UK regulators.  JP Morgan… Read More

October 18, 2021 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital banking continues to be a hot sector of Fintech as Germany-based N26 has announced a $900 million “record-breaking” funding round at a whopping $9+ billion valuation. The capital infusion was led by Third Point Ventures and Coatue Management, with Dragoneer Investment Group joining as… Read More

October 17, 2021 @ 7:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

RailsPay, an offshoot of Railsbank operating in Australia, has partnered with Parpera to offer its first Banking as a Service (BaaS) product. Parpera is a money management platform for consultations, freelancers, startup founders, and gig-workers. There are an estimated 2.4 million businesses in Australia with… Read More

October 17, 2021 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital banking platform Revolut notes in a blog post that Halloween is soon on its way, however, there’s nothing “spooky” about the work they’ve been doing during October 2021. The Revolut team also mentioned that they’ve performed updates to enhance platform security and reduce your… Read More

October 15, 2021 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

LendingClub (NYSE:LC), a digital bank and online lending platform, has seen its shares print a new 52 week high as markets rally. LendingClub’s shares once trolled the cellar of value trading under $5. Today, the once-moribund equity, has been reanimated and is now trading at… Read More

October 15, 2021 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) a global investment bank and fast-growing Fintech firm, has reported Q3 financial results and business is good. According to Goldman, during the first nine months of 2021, the company generated net revenues of $46.70 billion along with net earnings of $17.70 billion… Read More

October 14, 2021 @ 11:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cognizant reveals that it has entered an agreement with Alveo to provide a comprehensive Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) data management solution to the financial services sector. Through the partnership. companies will have the option to operationalize ESG data, integrate it into business processes for… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 7:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TD Bank (NYSE: TD) reveals that it has expanded its working relationship with Autobooks in order to add invoicing as a feature to its TD Business Simple Checking, which should make it easier for small and micro businesses to process invoices and “get paid faster.”… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 6:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: JKHY), a provider of tech solutions and payment processing services for the financial services sector, announced on October 12, 2021 that Finicity, Akoya, and Plaid are among the first Open Banking platforms to integrate to the Banno Digital Platform by… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) and Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT) are working together to power a digital banking service. Green Dot will use the Temenos Banking Cloud as its platform of choice to power its banking platform services (BaaS) partners. This will enable it to embed financial… Read More

October 13, 2021 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lunar, the financial services firm that provides Nordic consumers and businesses a new way to bank and make payments, announces the acquisition of Paylike in order to make online payments simpler and faster for digital commerce businesses and consumers. Being able to take payments and… Read More

October 12, 2021 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Planixs, the provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management services, has revealed that its Realiti software suite has been chosen by Nord/LB as the bank “embarks on a digital transformation project to overhaul its treasury operations.” NORD/LB Norddeutsche Landesbank is reportedly one of… Read More

October 12, 2021 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Atomic, the provider for payroll connectivity, announced on October 12, 2021 that it has acquired $22 million in Series A financing in order to expand its payroll integration platform and grow its team of professionals. The investment round comes as the company’s solution is on… Read More

October 11, 2021 @ 10:07 pm By JD Alois  |  

Last week, Oportun (Nasdaq:OPRT), an online lender that utilizes artificial intelligence, said it had decided to voluntarily withdraw its application for a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). The OCC is the main bank regulator in the United… Read More

October 11, 2021 @ 7:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Bank North, a challenger bank that recently received its banking license, has added to its executive team as it prepares to offer SME lending starting a regional market estimated to be around £150 billion. Bank North received its banking license in August. It has previously… Read More

October 11, 2021 @ 7:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Silicon Valley-headquartered Mbanq, a Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider that claims to be one of the fastest-growing Fintech firms, has entered into an agreement with Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the Open Cloud banking firm, in order to introduce an innovative Credit-Union-as-a Service (CUaaS) offering, and to “accelerate BaaS… Read More