Tagged: cards

October 16, 2026 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

Card platform Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) and digital asset firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) are expanding an existing relationship to help enterprise customers issue stablecoin-backed cards. Coinbase will custody the stablecoin and convert between digital assets and fiat. Coinbase will use Base as its blockchain. Marqeta will handle card… Read More

February 27, 2026 @ 4:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Thredd, an AI-first issuer processing platform, announced the expansion of its partnership with MuchBetter, the consumer wallet and prepaid card platform, supporting the company’s launch in Israel. This marks the latest milestone in the company’s international expansion, powered by Thredd, following the successful… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 4:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent report highlights fintech startup Ramp‘s seemingly aggressive push to disrupt American Express‘ current dominance in the $2 trillion U.S. corporate and small-business credit card sector. Founded in 2019 by Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, Fintech firm Ramp has scaled to $1 billion in… Read More

August 25, 2025 @ 1:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UPay’s 2025 Global Digital Payments Report provides a concise summary of virtual card and digital wallet use. It also offers a prescription for future growth. Digital wallet spending growth over the past decade is essentially tenfold, growing from $1.6 trillion in 2014 to $15.7 trillion… Read More

March 17, 2025 @ 9:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Capgemini Research Institute’s World Retail Banking Report 2025, published this week, reveals a critical shortcoming in how retail banks appeal to the demands of digital-native, urban clients between the ages of 18-45. According to the report, while 73% of these credit card customers are motivated primarily by… Read More

March 14, 2025 @ 10:38 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Thredd’s Damien Gough said that in today’s economically challenged environment, many Fintechs seeking growth must expand to new countries. However, with every country having unique characteristics, companies cannot simply cut and paste their playbook from one into another. Thredd helps such firms quickly and successfully… Read More

March 4, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Augie introduced a credit card that enables consumers to build credit without setting aside security deposits, paying fees, or incurring interest charges. “The credit card industry hasn’t meaningfully evolved since its inception, even though how people manage money today is completely different,” said… Read More

November 27, 2024 @ 8:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cardless, a fintech known for co-branded credit card solutions, announced a $30 million investment round led by Activant Capital, along with participation from investors such as Mischief (the fund co-founded by Plaid’s Zach Perret), Industry Ventures, Thayer Ventures, Assurant and Amex Ventures. This reportedly brings… Read More

October 22, 2024 @ 8:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

As more companies gravitate toward card programs to drive customer attraction and retention, they are learning that success significantly depends on the quality of the customer experience. Today, Marqeta (NASDAQ:MQ) released a pair of tools designed to make creating front-end payment experiences a much easier… Read More

September 16, 2024 @ 4:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payment cards are the most are the preferred payment method for e-commerce purchases in Australia, collectively accounting for 50.6% share in 2023, reveals GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s E-Commerce Analytics reveals “that Australian e-commerce market is estimated to register 8.3% growth in 2024… Read More

August 31, 2023 @ 3:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Zilch is reporting that it has topped 3.5 million users. The last user milestone Zilch claimed was in late 2022 when Zilch said it had surpassed three million users. The company notes that the user count equates to about 3,000 new users every day… Read More

August 21, 2022 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Enfuce is pleased to confirm an extended partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA) in order to expand the company’s Card as a Service platform in the Nordics. Through the partnership, Mastercard powers Card as a Service “with tokenized multi-currency BINs in the Nordics, enabling Enfuce’s customers… Read More

May 4, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kard, the rewards-as-a-service API that connects modern card issuers to the brands their cardholders really love, recently announced that it has secured $23 million via a Series A round led by Tiger Global. Also participating in the investment round are Fin Capital, s12f, and existing… Read More

August 6, 2021 @ 6:36 pm By Priyanka Pani  |  

Pencilton, a teen-focused fintech startup, has raised $330K in a pre-seed round led by neobank Jupiter, or Amica Financial Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Several successful founders such as Nilesh Patel, Prashant Singh (Founders of LeadSquared), Ashish Sharma (MD, Innoven Capital), Abhishek Goyal (Founder of Tracxn), Himanshu… Read More

June 10, 2016 @ 10:53 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Success! Rooster Teeth’s new board game, Million Dollars, But… The Game, has successfully secured $1,353,024 from 30,546 backers during its Kickstarter campaign. Last month, Rooster Teeth hit the crowdfunding giant to raise only $10,000 for the game’s creation and within mere hours of the campaign’s launch, the project raised… Read More

May 25, 2016 @ 10:17 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Just a little over two weeks after launching its Kickstarter campaign, Rooster Teeth’s Million Dollars, But… board game has successfully secured $1 million from nearly 22,000 backers. The initiative originally sough to raise $10,000 and secured the initial goal within minutes of its debut. Million Dollars, But…… Read More