Tagged: digital banking

December 9, 2020 @ 10:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexico-based digital bank albo has secured $45 million in capital through an investment round in order to expand its operations into lending and insurance services. Several investors took part in albo’s latest round, including Valar Ventures, Greyhound Capital, Mountain Nazca and Flourish Ventures. The digital… Read More

December 9, 2020 @ 7:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prominent digital bank Revolut, which was last valued at around $5.5 billion, has reportedly managed to break even for the month of November 2020. Fintech Unicorn Revolut’s revenues had dropped as much as 40% when awareness about the Coronavirus pandemic began to spread back in… Read More

December 7, 2020 @ 3:54 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Paris-based Société Générale S.A., a French multinational investment bank and financial services company with around €1.3 trillion in assets, is reportedly set to close 600 of its branches by 2025. This is notably due to the merging of the banking group’s two retail bank… Read More

December 5, 2020 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Reuben Lai, Senior Managing Director at Grab Financial Group, has said that he’s really excited and honored to confirm that Grab’s consortium with Singtel has acquired the digital full bank license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). As reported recently, the MAS revealed the… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 4:19 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Zytara, a U.S.-based fintech startup, announced on Thursday it is planning to launch a digital banking platform and payment network that is specifically designed for millennial and gen Z gamers and esports enthusiasts. Founded in 2019, Zytara claims that its financial offering will be… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 8:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prominent digital bank Revolut has appointed former Citigroup executive Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann to its US board of directors. Macieira-Kaufmann has worked at Citigroup as a senior management professional for the past 12 years. She has served as the Head of the bank’s International Personal Bank in… Read More

December 3, 2020 @ 8:04 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Digital bank Starling Bank announced on Thursday it has welcomed Nutmeg, a UK-based digital wealth manager, to its Marketplace.  Starling reported that the new service will help its personal and sole tracker consumers connect their banking to their investment accounts and pensions. “Starling customers with… Read More

December 1, 2020 @ 11:47 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Backbase, an omni-channel banking solution provider, announced on Tuesday the launch of its next-generation platform, as well as the release of its enhanced Backbase-as-a-Service (BaaS) offering. According to Backbase, the product launches mark an “acceleration” of its move towards a technology-led, single platform play. “Backbase’s… Read More

November 30, 2020 @ 10:28 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Germany-based banking as a service platform solarisBank is reportedly planning to expand its services in Europe this upcoming year. CEO of the banking group, Roland Folz, revealed to Reuters that he and his team will be working on getting the solarisBank products in a string… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 11:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam’s Fintech startup ecosystem has grown significantly between 2017 and 2020, according to a new report. There were 44 Fintech-related startups in the country in 2017 and now there are at least 123 financial technology firms, Fintech News Singapore confirmed. The number of Fintechs operating… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the past few years, the Fintech sector in Thailand has grown significantly. The country is now home to at least 96 Fintech startups. Thailand’s Fintech ecosystem includes companies and businesses operating in the digital payments space, blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT). There are… Read More

November 29, 2020 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

​The Monetary Board in the Philippines has reportedly approved the recognition of digital banking platforms as a new bank category that’s separate and distinct from the traditional bank classifications. Regulators in the country have defined digital banks as an institution or entity that provides financial… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Los Angeles-headquartered banking challenger, HMBradley, had introduced its own digital banking platform in April 2020. As previously reported, the new platform was developed to reward savers. HMBradley recently finalized an $18.25 million Series A funding round that was led by Acrew Capital (which also invested… Read More

November 25, 2020 @ 3:34 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Northmill Bank, a neobanking group based in Sweden, recently announced it has joined forces with open banking platform Tink. Northmill reported that the partnership will allow the bank to add another layer of intelligence to its credit assessments. While speaking about the partnership, Babel Poli,… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

  Prominent digital bank Revolut is reportedly planning to hire several senior management professionals in Singapore. The UK-headquartered Fintech Unicorn noted that it’s looking to recruit senior-level executives for managing its operations in the city-state. As first reported by Tech in Asia, Revolut also plans… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 9:07 am By JD Alois  |  

Current, one of the leading digital banks in the US, has raised $131 million in a Series C funding round led by Tiger Global Management joined by new investors Sapphire Ventures and Avenir. Foundation Capital, Wellington Management Company, and QED Investors returned to fund the… Read More

November 24, 2020 @ 8:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Digital-only bank platform N26 announced on Monday the launch of its new banking accounts, N26 Smart and N26 Business Smart. The accounts feature most of N26’s money management features to help account users “spend and save with confidence.” The banking group explained: “Alongside all the… Read More

November 23, 2020 @ 3:28 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Digital bank Revolut announced on Monday its service Revolut Junior is now offering a new feature called Co-Parent. According to Revolut, Co-Parent was created to supervise their child’s Revolut Junior account and make learning about money easy and fun together, because teamwork makes the… Read More

November 22, 2020 @ 9:57 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Digital-only bank platform N26 recently announced it is bringing Google Pay to customers in Austria, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, the Netherlands, and Portugal. The company made Google Pay available to customers starting in 2018, with the first launches in Belgium, Ireland, Slovakia, and Spain…. Read More

November 21, 2020 @ 5:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered digital bank Revolut has partnered with global online advertising platform, Adzooma, so that the bank’s business customers can get special advertising cashback incentives. This is notably the first marketing-focused incentive scheme that Revolut Business has introduced while working with a trusted partner. It’s also… Read More