Tagged: digital financial services

December 16, 2022 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant Financial, which claims to be the “pioneer” of fee-free, responsible earned wage access (EWA) solutions that help employees take control of their financial wellness, announced that the company “reached several growth milestones in 2022, confirming the demand for on-demand pay and electronic tips solutions… Read More

December 16, 2022 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe’s (NYSE: PSFE) cash arm – viafintech – has started a new partnership with Germany’s third-largest bank by number of customers, ING Germany. From today, more than nine million ING customers “can make cash deposits or withdrawals from their current account at participating retailers across… Read More

December 15, 2022 @ 8:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zurich-based digital financial services provider, bob Finance, has successfully migrated its full lending portfolio to Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. This migration “included a move to a locally-based Google Cloud.” bob Finance is “a branch of Valora Schweiz AG, the leading provider of Foodvenience in Switzerland.”… Read More

December 14, 2022 @ 11:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Extend, a virtual card and spend management platform, announced a partnership with HSBC (NYSE: HSBC), one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations. HSBC will offer Extend solutions “to its commercial card clients in the U.S. to help companies manage spending with the… Read More

December 12, 2022 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The adoption of open source in the financial services industry is “on the rise, largely led by organizations with Open Source Program Offices (OSPOs), which are more than twice as likely to encourage open source consumption, and nearly three times as likely to encourage open… Read More

December 11, 2022 @ 9:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Boost, which claims to be the leading regional full-spectrum fintech arm of Axiata, and Payments Network Malaysia (PayNet), the national retail payments network infrastructure announced that Boost merchants in Malaysia can now “accept cross-border payments from Thailand tourists via its DuitNow QR.” This new feature… Read More

December 10, 2022 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of London, the technology company and the “world’s first” purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, announced it has become a Directly Connected Settling Participant (DCSP) of Bacs, which is “owned and operated by Pay.UK, the recognized operator and standards body for the… Read More

December 10, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bond, the embedded finance platform, announced that residential real estate business Flow has selected Bond as the embedded finance platform partner “to power Flow’s planned digital wallet, which will offer differentiated financial products.” Bond’s platform “enables Flow to provide its community members with a unique… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Luxembourg is a country known for its “strong” focus on innovation and is one of the world’s “leading” financial centers, and PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) is pleased to announce that they will be “expanding PayPal’s cryptocurrency services to eligible Luxembourgish customers in the coming days.” The introduction… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 8:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two of Sweden’s “fastest-growing” Fintech companies are joining forces in a partnership “to provide easier and more accessible growth financing for retailers that import goods.” A unique, simple, and completely digital credit scoring process “enables small and medium-sized businesses to quickly get financing with fair… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) announced a multi-year innovation partnership with NVIDIA in order “to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector.” Combining Deutsche Bank’s financial industry expertise with NVIDIA’s leadership in AI and accelerated computing “will… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

What was once an innovation is today “a way of life” for millions of consumers in India. Over the last two and a half years, transactions on the UPI network have “grown by a factor of 6 as digital payments have exploded in India,” according… Read More

December 7, 2022 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank, which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, announced an equity capitalization of $330 million, which will be “invested to finance the expansion of the company’s portfolio, increase penetration across market segments and strengthen its operations and long term… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capitalists invested “a record $41.0 billion into the retail fintech vertical in 2021, representing a 78.6% increase compared with 2019’s $23.0 billion,” according to an update from Pitchbook. VC investments into the banking and credit and wealthtech segments “drove this increase.” As of Q3… Read More

December 6, 2022 @ 8:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

T8, a financial services and lifestyle platform built for the global mass affluent, has raised  237% (£3,322,350) of its £1,400,000 target (with 3 days left in the sale, at the time of writing) from 238 investors via its crowdfunding campaign, carried out through Seedrs. Located… Read More

December 5, 2022 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The agreement with Commerzbank is a key milestone for the issuing solutions business of Nexi in Germany. Commerzbank has chosen Nets, part of the European PayTech Nexi Group, in order “to develop a streamlined and scalable solution for processing credit, debit, and prepaid cards which… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 7:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of London, which claims to be the next-generation technology company and the “world’s first” purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, announced the appointment of Marc Jenkins as Chief Financial Officer UK – SMF 2, “subject to regulatory approval, and Member of the… Read More

December 4, 2022 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nordic open banking provider, Neonomics, has decided to support UNICEF Norway in order “to make donating this holiday period easier and more secure by harnessing the power of open banking payments.” The holiday period is “the most important time of year for charities, but with… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

To help customers manage their finances, Santander has launched two new tools on its Financial Support Hub, a Budget Calculator and Financial Health Check. These tools will “provide customers with advice on how to manage their finances, helping them to review their spending and budget… Read More

December 3, 2022 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE:AXP) announced Amex Business Link™, a new business-to-business (B2B) payments ecosystem for network issuing and acquiring participants “to offer to their business customers.” Amex Business Link “makes managing payments easier for buyers and suppliers of all sizes by accepting card and non-card payments… Read More