May 8, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Citi announced on Tuesday that six strategic partnerships with leading corporations in Hong Kong to accelerate the development of open Application Programming Interface (API) in the city and to make available what the financial giant calls “easy and speedy” banking services in response to consumers’ increasingly digital… Read More

February 27, 2018 @ 10:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Pagaya Investments, a Fintech company in the asset management space, has received $75 million in debt financing from Citi. Simultaneously, Pagaya announced the creation of the “Opportunity Fund” to meet growing institutional interest in consumer credit as an asset class. Launched in2016, Pagaya has raied… Read More

January 21, 2018 @ 8:02 pm By AdaPia d'Errico  |  

As Oprah Winfrey put it during her acceptance speech at the Golden Globes on January 7th, 2018. The reverberations of her words have re-ignited, for anyone who thought it was a just a trend, the importance of #metoo, the industry-agnostic movement. Actually, it is all-encompassing… Read More

December 12, 2017 @ 12:10 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, banking giant Citi announced the launch of its new beta-testing customer community, Canvas Designed by Citi, which promotes financial wellness. According to Citi, the new community enables customers to co-create products and digital capabilities that promote their financial wellness. It will use data across a… Read More

November 16, 2017 @ 12:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Hexindai announced it has appointed Citi’s Issuer Services business as the depositary bank for its American Depositary Receipt (ADR) program. According to the online lender, the program was established through an initial public offering of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs), priced… Read More

November 10, 2017 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Banking giant Citi today announced on Thursday the new functionality for the Citi Mobile App for Android, offering access to banking and wealth management capabilities with a user-friendly design. Citi FinTech developed the new mobile features for Android following last year’s launch for iPhone. The… Read More

November 2, 2017 @ 8:18 am By JD Alois  |  

LendInvest, a Fintech marketplace platform for property finance, has agreed a long-term warehouse facility with Citi boosting its entry into the UK’s £40 billion buy-to-let (BTL) market. Under the terms of the financing, Citi will provide a funding line to LendInvest that will be used… Read More

May 19, 2017 @ 11:59 am By JD Alois  |  

Citi (NYSE: C) has announced award recipients for their Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I) Demo day which took place in Dublin yesterday. According to Citi, Fintech developers from eight different countries participated to present working prototypes of their Fintech applications. The award recipients from the… Read More

March 20, 2017 @ 4:43 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

FinTech Circle has formed a partnership with Cape Innovation and Technology Initiative (CiTi) to launch FinTech Academy Africa. The companies revealed that the new program is geared towards those interested looking more about fintech and the curriculum was designed to deliver a comprehensive understanding of the… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 3:07 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Citigroup announced it appointed Yolande Piazza as the permanent head of its fintech unit, Citi Fintech. According to PYMNTS, Piazza assumed the role as interim head in August when previous chief executive of Citi Fintech, Heather Cox, left the company.  Stephen Bird, chief… Read More

February 7, 2017 @ 4:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, banking giant Citi has teamed up with IBM and its other allies to launch the Citi Tech for Integrity Challenge (T4I), which is described as a program that seeks to encourage technology innovators from around the globe to create solutions to promote integrity, accountability,… Read More

January 27, 2017 @ 1:30 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Citi’s latest report, “Digital Disruption – Revisited: What FinTech VC Investments Tell Us About a Changing Industry”, explores the evolving fintech industry.  In exploring different regions around the world, the report concludes: China’s rapid digitalization and rise of the middle class — combined with declining… Read More

December 8, 2016 @ 10:45 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Citi FinTech, a unit within Citi’s Global Consumer Bank, announced on Thursday the launch of its first product, the Citi Mobile App for iPhone. This new app combines banking, wealth management, and money movement capabilities, which were developed by the fintech group. While sharing details… Read More

November 22, 2016 @ 8:20 am By Jessica Pham  |  

eOriginal, Inc., a service for businesses that need to verify “secure, legally compliant and enforceable electronic asset documentation”, announced earlier this month that private equity firm LLR Partners has led investments in the company totaling $26.5 million.  The 20-year-old company will use the capital to expand its… Read More

November 10, 2016 @ 5:05 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Citi announced on Thursday the launch of its new global API Developer Hub. The high profile banking brand revealed the hub was created as a way to connect with developers and enable them to build innovative client solutions. Citi reported that through the global API… Read More

November 4, 2016 @ 9:30 am By Jessica Pham  |  

The Government of Singapore is inviting startups, tech companies, investors, and banks to its inaugural Singapore FinTech Festival between November 14-18. Events will include a Hackcelerator Demo Day, the FinTech Awards, and a speakers expo. Finalists competing in the FinTech Awards had been busy implementing… Read More

August 14, 2016 @ 6:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

Heather Cox was named head of Citi Fintech in October 2015.  After less than a year of attempting to guide one of the largest banks in the world through the Fintech revolution, it appears that Cox has had enough and has moved on to USAA…. Read More

May 12, 2015 @ 11:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Small Business Policy Project (SBPP) has partnered with Biz2Credit to launch DCSmallBizLoans.com, a new customized web-based lending platform. Biz2Credit, founded in 2007, states it has arranged more than $1.2 billion in small business financing since that time. The new direct lending platform has been made possible with… Read More