Tagged: digital banking

June 29, 2022 @ 8:13 am By JD Alois  |  

Salt Edge and Five Degrees have partnered on digital banking. Salt Edge is an open banking solution provider that is currently integrated with thousands of financial institutions operating in over 50 countries. Five Degree is a digital banking platform that offers a core banking platform… Read More

June 27, 2022 @ 9:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Spire, a GCC Open Banking services provider, has announced a partnership with Mastercard (NYSE: MA),  a technology leader in the global payments sector. The collaboration will “help banks revolutionize consumer engagement and enhance user experiences in the region by integrating Spire ‘Ingage’ and Mastercard’s Merchant… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Starling Bank has passed the three million current account milestone, which “includes more than 460,000 small business accounts,” according to an update shared with CI. This key milestone comes five years after the digital bank launched its Personal Current Accounts in May 2017, while its… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 12:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut Business has reportedly launched a new cashback offer for US customers. Businesses of any size – from SMEs to freelancers – “get up to 1.9 % cash back for card purchases,” according to an update shared with CI. Revolut, the global financial super app… Read More

June 18, 2022 @ 3:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Minna Bank, Ltd., Japan’s “first” digital bank, has recorded more than 1 million downloads of its mobile banking app and over 400,000 accounts have been “opened in its first year of commercial operations since May 28, 2021.” With the first “full” Cloud core banking system,… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 10:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Narmi, a provider of open digital banking technologies, announced $35 million in Series B funding co-led by Greycroft and existing investors NEA and Picus Capital. Narmi claims it is one of the fastest-growing companies “servicing financial institutions in the United States and plans to leverage… Read More

June 12, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mambu, the cloud banking platform, has partnered with Western Union, a global “leader” in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, in order to integrate its solution “into the latter’s next-generation real-time multi-currency digital wallet and digital banking platform in Europe.” Mambu will “enable Western Union… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Mega-Fintech Ant Group has announced the launch of ANEXT Bank, a digital wholesale bank, in Singapore. Several years back, Singapore commenced the approval of digital-only banking licenses. Ant Group was one of the approved digital banking providers. ANEXT Bank is one of the two successful… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 6:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ANEXT Bank, a digital wholesale bank incorporated in Singapore and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ant Group, has announced its soft launch. The soft launch follows its receipt of MAS’ approval “to commence business on 2 June 2022.” The Singapore-based digital bank will focus on “providing… Read More

June 4, 2022 @ 9:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Green Link Digital Bank (GLDB) commences banking business. GLDB seeks to serve Micro-Small-Medium-Enterprises (MSMEs) with banking and financial services “through their supply chain financing and innovative, easy-to-use technological solutions.” GLDB seeks to leverage their experience in supply chain financing and innovative, easy-to-use technological solutions “to… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueLayer, which claims to be Europe’s leading Open Banking platform, has announced a collaboration with digital bank Zopa, which has gone live with account-to-account payments for its Smart Saver savings account. Zopa’s Smart Saver was launched in February with a focus on “helping consumers at… Read More

May 30, 2022 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank has an “exclusive” promotion for new subscribers to the Atoms C6 Platinum points accelerator plan. Customers of the C6 Platinum card who subscribe to the points accelerator plan “will have the monthly fee charged for the first three months reversed in the following… Read More

May 25, 2022 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UBS (SWX: UBSG) is launching a “purely” digital product line, UBS key4, for clients who want “to carry out their banking transactions entirely digitally – independently and around the clock from their smartphone.” The new product line is “integrated into the long-established and popular UBS… Read More

May 22, 2022 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank has announced that it recently added new equity investment options to its C6 Invest platform. From now on, clients who were already able to trade mini dollar and index (Ibovespa) contracts since August last year “can also trade full futures contracts on the… Read More

May 21, 2022 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s Atom Bank has reportedly appointed Andy Sturrock as the banking platform’s new Chief Technologist. Andy joins Atom from BP plc, where he ran the firm’s Digital Consumer Channels and Offers teams, including the BPMe app and loyalty schemes. During his time working at BP,… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Neon, a Fintech firm and digital bank focused on “improving the lives of working Brazilians,” has announced an overview of the company’s growth and momentum that “led up to its recent US$300M Series D round, resulting in a valuation of US$1.6B and its achievement of… Read More

May 19, 2022 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

Neon is reporting that revenue has grown by 3X while predicting it will grow 2X in 2022. This is following a Series D round that raised $300 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion. BBVA (NYSE: BBVA) provided the growth capital for Neon and agreed… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 10:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Starling Bank has launched a campaign that “celebrates” women’s football as part of its national support of the UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 tournament. The ‘Our Time’ campaign highlights the glass ceilings that continue “to be broken for the women’s game, while nodding to Starling’s… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 6:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Dave Inc. (Nasdaq: DAVE, DAVEW), a neobank on a mission to build products that “level the financial playing field,” recently reported its financial results “for the first quarter ended March 31, 2022.” Dave utilizes Evolve Bank & Trust to provide its digital financial services. Jason… Read More

May 16, 2022 @ 5:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dock, a full-stack payments and digital banking platform across Latin America, recently announced that it has secured $110 million in growth funding led by Lightrock and Silver Lake Waterman, along with contributions from existing investors Riverwood Capital, Viking Global Investors and Sunley House Capital, “bringing… Read More