Tagged: digital financial services

January 4, 2022 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Melio has shared ways that online accounts payable tools can make life a lot easier. The Melio team writes in a blog post that most of us set out on an independent career path because we may have a “passion for our field… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

From the very beginning, HMBradley claims that it was built around you (the customer) – around the idea that personal finances should be “empowering and rewarding, every step of the way.” HMBradley wrote in a blog post that clients deserve a financial platform that’s “actually… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 11:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at ChargeBee notes that for the year it had to follow, 2021 had “a relatively low benchmark to beat in terms of popularity.” ChargeBee, a San Francisco-based financial services firm that’s helping subscription-based businesses stay “agile and adapt their revenue operations workflows to… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addepar, a U.S.-based wealth manager with $2.5 trillion of assets on its platform, has shared a report that introduces their proprietary Investor Sentiment IndexSM. As explained by Addepar, the index measures or gauges investor sentiment using “detailed portfolio-level data” from the firm’s Wealthtech platform. The… Read More

January 3, 2022 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Mambu, a modern SaaS banking platform, says that it has been a solid year for them. It began with the announcement of their €110 million round of funding that was led by TCV, whose investments reportedly include Netflix and Spotify, and ended… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Another year is winding down and the team at Mercury Bank has reflected on some of their “favorite” moments of 2021. Mercury Bank say they’re grateful to have had their clients with them along the way. During 2021, Mercury finalized a $120 million Series B… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ruben Salazar Genovez, Global Head of Visa Direct, notes that when he was growing up in El Salvador during the 1980s, people living in “extreme” poverty were defined as those “who spend their daily purchasing power on food and still go to sleep hungry.” Now,… Read More

December 30, 2021 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this month, the team at digital bank Zopa made an important update regarding the future of their peer-to-peer business. After 16 years of handling P2P investments at Zopa, the team has taken the decision to close down their retail investing business (something similar to… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 3:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

At workforce payments platform Branch, the firm claims that they love partnerships, especially with companies that share “a commitment to financial inclusion.” That’s why they’re really pleased to confirm that they’re working with HR, payroll, and compliance software Greenshades to offer fee-free financial services to… Read More

December 29, 2021 @ 10:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nicholas Harding, Co-founder and CEO at Lending Works, noted that he established the firm with help from Matthew Powell,  Co-founder and CFO, back in 2014. Harding explains that they believed that technology could “transform customer experience in financial services.” Their aim was to “deliver this… Read More

December 27, 2021 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank Indonesia has introduced the Bank Indonesia Fast Payment (BI-FAST) system virtually, entitled “Payment System Digital Transformation to Accelerate National Economic Recovery.” BI-FAST is described as a payment system infrastructure offered by Bank Indonesia and accessible via applications offered by the payment system industry “to… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Investree reveals that it has strengthened its commitment to support the development of SMEs across the Philippines by working cooperatively with Netbank, a banking as a service platform in the Southeast Asian country that offers “low-cost and high-quality banking services.” Via the collaboration, Netbank allocated… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 9:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fnality, the financial technology company establishing a network of distributed financial market infrastructures using blockchain or distributed ledger tech (DLT), revealed it will be able to lower banks’ intraday liquidity requirements “by up to 70%, reducing funding costs and payment delays.” The findings come ahead… Read More

December 26, 2021 @ 5:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TrueAccord’s Chief Product Officer, Laura Marino, is a civil engineer turned product management executive. As mentioned in a blog post by TrueAccord, Laura has a unique viewpoint or perspective on the evolution of machine learning in software across a variety of industry segments. Laura recently… Read More

December 24, 2021 @ 9:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut, the provider of a financial Super App with over 18 million customers globally, revealed that it will bring Google Pay to Revolut Junior clients across the United Kingdom and EEA. Revolut says it added support for Google Pay after getting feedback during… Read More

December 24, 2021 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Local tech startup Bloom has unveiled a new collaboration with Visa (NYSE: V) to provide extra spending rewards for Visa card users residing in Hong Kong. As noted in an update shared with CI, the tie-up should help with accelerating Visa’s journey in connecting with… Read More

December 23, 2021 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ibancar, the asset based consumer credit platform, has signed its first institutional debt facility “up to an amount of €10m.” The business is scaling quickly in Spain and intends to expand its activity to Mexico as well as introduce other auto-related credit products, according to… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Established 11 months ago by ex- Revolut professionals including CEO Lasse Kalkar and COO Anita Koimur, and CTO Evan O’Brien, LiveFlow plans to improve the way financial management is performed inside organizations. The team at LiveFlow wrote in a blog post that they are pleased… Read More

December 22, 2021 @ 9:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Berlin-headquartered Swarm Markets GmbH, which claims to be the first regulated “decentralized” financial infrastructure provider, announced that it will launch a peer-to-peer contract for “high value transactions in Q1 2022.” The so-called dOTC service “empowers institutions and professional investors to use the first regulated crypto… Read More

December 20, 2021 @ 10:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Avant, a financial technology firm that aims to give middle-income consumers access to the credit they “deserve,” has announced the official launch of Avant Banking. The launch of Avant Banking further expands the firm’s financial product portfolio of personal loans, credit cards and auto refinance…. Read More