Tagged: digital financial services

February 21, 2022 @ 7:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sydney-headquartered Fintech firm Lumi has acquired an additional $10 million in funding from existing investors Arbel Fund and Melbourne’s Perennial Partners in order to capitalize on the faster than anticipated growth in certain market segments. The SME lender has acquired a total of $30 million… Read More

February 16, 2022 @ 6:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Citi is a long-time partner of SIMON, both as a leading issuer of structured investments and via its wealth management division whose financial professionals use the investment platform. In alignment with the focus of both firms, this announcement underscores Citi‘s (NYSE: C) commitment to innovative… Read More

February 16, 2022 @ 2:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KreditBee, one of India’s leading virtual lending platforms, has announced that it crossed the milestone of issuing 1 million ‘KreditBee Card’. The firm now claims that it is one of the fastest cards to cross this milestone, since its launch in August 2021. KreditBee has… Read More

February 15, 2022 @ 12:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian Fintech Unicorn Slice has finalized its first employee stock option plan (ESOP) buyback valued at $8.6M. In November of last year, Slice achieved Unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more) after securing $220 million via its Series B that was co-led by Tiger… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 11:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

i2c Inc., a provider of digital payment and banking tech, announced its partnership with KARTY, a Qatar-based Fintech offering tailored digital financial solutions to the MEA region, in order to introduce a digital-first prepaid mobile wallet to the country. Leveraging i2c’s international payments platform, Karty’s… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 9:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A report from PeerIQ notes that the official numbers are in and they’re not looking so great. Inflation, as measured by the CPI, surged at a higher than expected 7.5% annualized rate in January 2022. That’s the fastest rate of price increases since 1982. Expectations… Read More

February 14, 2022 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software firm, has announced that Commerce Bank (NASDAQ: CBSH) is now live with Temenos core banking platform. This milestone completes Commerce Bank’s modernization project to transition from its outdated legacy systems for deposits “to a modern, agile and open platform… Read More

February 11, 2022 @ 8:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

WealthKernel, a provider of digital investment services and infrastructure, has introduced Instant Matching Deposits that are being powered by ClearBank, the Cloud-enabled clearing bank. Instant Matching Deposits enables investors “to instantly fund their accounts and begin trading without waiting days for payments to clear, and… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 11:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumer lending Fintech Selina Finance has finalized a £150 million Series B round that included equity and debt financing. Selina Finance acquired $115 million in debt funding from Goldman Sachs and GGC and $35 million in equity financing led by Lightrock along with existing investors…. Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thndr, the Egyptian digital investment platform, announces a new $20 million Series A investment. Thndr’s investment round was co-led by Tiger Global, BECO Capital and Prosus Ventures, in addition to participation from Base Capital, firstminute and existing investors Endure Capital, 4DX Ventures, Raba Partnerships and… Read More

February 9, 2022 @ 11:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sila Inc., a Fintech software platform that offers payment infrastructure as a service, announced that it teamed up with TrueAccord, the debt collection firm offering intelligent, digital-first collection and recovery solutions, “to make it easier for Sila’s customers to use TrueAccord’s products and services.” Having… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 8:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Newt Corporation, an integrated platform for digital financial services, announced that it has entered into a service agreement with Belvo Open Banking API Platform to service its lending-as-a-service (LaaS) offering across North America. Under the terms of the Agreement, Belvo offers Newt with a tech… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebee, a subscription management and recurring billing platform, has acquired $250M in additional capital at a $3.5B valuation. Thrilled to announce that @Chargebee has raised $250M at a $3.5B valuation.🚀We are grateful to our investors, customers, partners & team who have supported our vision to… Read More

February 7, 2022 @ 2:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-headquartered Fintech Railsbank, which provides virtual banking services, is approaching Unicorn status (valued at $1 billion or more), Sky News confirmed on Friday (February 4, 2022). The UK-based Fintech firm recently acquired certain assets of Wirecard, the collapsed and fraudulent German payments firm. As mentioned… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Revolut, the financial super app with nearly 4 million UK clients, has announced the launch of Pet Insurance. As mentioned in the update, the stand-alone product aims to reinforce Revolut’s existing insurance product offering including travel insurance, purchase protection, and ticket- and missed event… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alkami Technology Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT), a Cloud-powered virtual banking solutions provider for US banks and credit unions, announced the introduction of Alkami Activate, a marketing service that assists financial institutions with engaging digital banking clients with end-user awareness and explainer videos, targeted propensity lists, and… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 4:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently noted that banks in the Southeast Asian country have “substantially” implemented the additional measures to enhance the security of virtual banking announced on 19 January 2022. The measures, taken together, offer a “significant” added layer of security to… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, payments platform Modulr announced a partnership with Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, in order to enable payments into the UK and Europe. Trust Payments, the international unified payments group, is reportedly the first customer… Read More

February 5, 2022 @ 9:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Baroda, one of India’s largest banking institutions, had been looking to boost efficiencies, implement the latest digital technology and provide a more connected customer experience. With these objectives in mind, it chose NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR), an international enterprise tech provider, and its… Read More

February 4, 2022 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Fintech Bunq has reportedly become one of Europe’s first neobanking platforms to offer its clients a straightforward and sustainable way to invest their funds. The Dutch firm was recently valued at €1.6 billion and has now introduced ‘Easy Investments’ as part of the most… Read More