Tagged: digital financial services

June 21, 2024 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investments into the e-commerce enablement ecosystem contracted in Q1, producing $1.7 billion across 83 deals, marking decreases of 52.2% and 26.5%, respectively, relative to Q4 seasonal increases. This, according to a report from PitchBook. PitchBook further noted that Q1 2024 approached parity “with Q3 2023,… Read More

May 30, 2024 @ 8:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The board of directors of Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOOD) has authorized a $1 billion share repurchase program, “demonstrating management and the board’s confidence in Robinhood’s financial strength and future growth prospects.” Jason Warnick, Chief Financial Officer of Robinhood, said: “As our business and cash… Read More

May 26, 2024 @ 3:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DriveWealth, a financial technology platform providing Brokerage-as-a-Service, announced  the hiring of two new executives: Kyla Murphy, as Chief Product Officer and Lauren Veisz as Head of Operations. In their respective roles, Murphy and Veisz will “help to further expand DriveWealth’s footprint in global markets, develop… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 10:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the People’s Bank of China (PBC) discussed initiatives to advance cooperation in green and transition finance between China and Singapore at the 2nd China-Singapore Green Finance Taskforce (GFTF) meeting held on 20 May 2024. The initiatives discussed covered… Read More

May 23, 2024 @ 3:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), a member-centric, one-stop shop for digital financial services that helps members borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money, announced today the Q1 2024 placement, in Q1 2024, of “a $350 million personal loan securitization” exclusively with funds and accounts… Read More

May 19, 2024 @ 9:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) announced that Banque Internationale à Luxembourg (BIL), one of the largest universal banks in Luxembourg, has gone live with Temenos core banking and payments to increase agility and efficiency of its retail, corporate and private banking operations. The move gives BIL the… Read More

May 16, 2024 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tuum, the core banking services provider, is pleased to announce a new partnership with TransactionLink, a key player focused on end-to-end KYB/KYC automation solutions. This collaboration aims to tackle “the pressing challenges faced by fintechs and banks, particularly in achieving faster time-to-market, scalability for growth… Read More

May 8, 2024 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank – the digital challenger bank built especially for established SMEs – has announced the launch of a new partnerships team, specifically focused on growing its relationships with accountancy firms across the UK. Allica, the business bank, sees accountants as “a vital connection to… Read More

May 7, 2024 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Crowded, a digital platform dedicated to providing nonprofits and membership organizations modern, tech-enabled financial services that meet their unique needs, announced a new collaboration with Visa, the digital payments provider, to implement Visa Direct. Powered by Cross River, a technology infrastructure provider “that offers embedded… Read More

May 6, 2024 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has partnered with Tide, the UK’s business financial platform, to offer small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) Tide business accounts, first in Germany before potentially expanding further into Europe. Following its announcement of strategic… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 7:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Recent pilot conversion to completely digital cloud-based core banking platform is next step in digital transformation for Atlantic credit unions. A first for the Canadian financial industry, League Data, the CIO and technology partner for Atlantic credit unions, announced that they have successfully converted Brunswick… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a significant development, C2FO, the world’s on-demand working capital platform, announced that its TReDS platform, named C2treds has gone live with India’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI) and Dabur India Ltd. among the inaugural participants on the platform. This milestone follows the… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust, a B2B order-to-cash and digital payments firm, has announced that Brian Daniell has joined the company as Chief Customer Officer. Committed to customer education and enablement, Brian will “oversee global customer operations and strategy and report to CEO Sunil Rajasekar.” He joins Billtrust at… Read More

May 5, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BBVA proposes that Banco Sabadell merge both entities to create a European financial service provider. In a letter addressed to the Board of Directors of Banco Sabadell, BBVA emphasizes that the combination of both entities “would give rise to the most attractive industrial project in… Read More

April 29, 2024 @ 2:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cross River Bank, a New Jersey State chartered FDIC-insured bank and Equal Housing Lender known for its Commercial Banking Group (CBG) and real estate lending platform, has reportedly “closed over $200 million in originations in the first quarter of the year.” “True” to the company’s… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, announced a partnership with Uber, to offer millions of consumers Klarna’s convenient alternative payment methods across Uber’s ride-sharing and delivery platforms, Uber and Uber Eats. Live in the US, Germany, and Sweden, Klarna‘s Pay Now… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) announced the launch of its new Open Banking Marketplace, which is described as being a one-stop platform that enables both existing and prospective clients to discover, identify, and test application programming interfaces (APIs) that best meets their business objectives in a… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 1:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Schroders Capital, a global private markets manager, and iCapital1, the global fintech platform driving the world’s alternative investment marketplace for the wealth management industry, announce a strategic partnership that enables Schroders Capital to broaden access to wealth managers for its semi-liquid global private equity strategy…. Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Societies, the unified SME (small and medium enterprises) digital finance platform in Southeast Asia, announced a partnership with Singapore E-Business (SGeBIZ) – a digital procurement, payment and sourcing platform provider – to bring B2B (business-to-business) embedded finance (EmFi) solutions to businesses in Singapore, that… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To accelerate its growth in the United States and its presence in the fast-expanding online gaming market, Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, is proud to announce that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire Tilia LLC, an all-in-one payments platform. Tilia is licensed in… Read More