Tagged: financial data

April 26, 2025 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the payment landscape evolves, a recent update from Payments Canada reveals that security understandably remains the top priority for Canadians when evaluating emerging payment technologies. Innovations like generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), social commerce, and pay-by-bank are poised to transform how Canadians shop and pay,… Read More

April 2, 2025 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SIX, the global financial data and market infrastructure provider, has launched its Digital Assets Regulatory & Tax Service – a data package providing financial institutions with “a single information source to help identify their exposure to digital assets and remain compliant with evolving regulations.” It… Read More

February 6, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thai financial market solutions firm ThaiQuest has agreed a multi-year partnership with SIX, the financial data and market infrastructure provider, to access market data from SIX and enhance its financial information business. As explained in the announcement, ThaiQuest will gain access to the SIX financial… Read More

February 5, 2025 @ 9:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Algebrik AI, a cloud-native, AI-powered loan origination platform, has announced a partnership with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. This collaboration aims to transform the loan origination process for credit unions and financial institutions by integrating Plaid’s consumer-permissioned data with Algebrik’s platform…. Read More

November 7, 2023 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ledge, the automated finance operations OS, released a finance industry report with new benchmark data that shows that finance teams at tech companies are forced “to inefficiently scale their headcount to manage the heavy workload of their finance operations.” Ledge’s research found that “as businesses… Read More

November 5, 2023 @ 2:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is pleased to announce its Pay-by-Bank services in North America will launch in early 2024 in partnership with Plaid, the digital finance innovator that makes it easy, safe and reliable for people… Read More

November 2, 2023 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, released new data revealing shoppers’ priorities this holiday season. While consumers face continued economic uncertainty, the survey of 2,000 gen pop Americans revealed “they are still planning to spend: 3 in… Read More

November 1, 2023 @ 6:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the technology infrastructure services provider, announced the availability of new services for financial services organizations seeking to use Google Cloud to safely store and protect their confidential and sensitive data. Kyndryl’s new services are designed “to enable a unified, scalable and security-rich… Read More

October 14, 2023 @ 6:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

US Consumer Price Index (CPI) data published Thursday supports the case that the Federal Reserve will likely “implement one more interest rate hike,” says the CEO of one of a financial advisory, asset management and fintech organization. The prediction from Nigel Green of deVere Group… Read More

October 2, 2023 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid is pleased to announce several updates to their Transactions product, which enables financial services providers to do even more with transactional data. These new features and quality enhancements from Plaid are “designed to amplify your ability to provide tailored solutions and services, unlocking improved… Read More

September 20, 2023 @ 8:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

As the interest rate environment continues to place pressure on the banking sector, key insights and data collected (last week) shed light on the present situation. This data, shared with CI, was obtained from banking, fintech and financial professionals at FinovateFall in New York and… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Growing numbers of world governments are beginning to scrutinize the services provided by Worldcoin, which is described as a crypto-related initiative that’s co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman that was officially launched in July of this year. Nearly 2.3 million consumers throughout the… Read More

September 3, 2023 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Customers of global software provider Civica will benefit from enhanced payroll information thanks to a new partnership with Experian. Through Experian’s interactive digital platform, PayDashboard, Civica users “will be empowered to better engage with, and understand their payslip information, helping them to take control of… Read More

September 2, 2023 @ 6:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, is pleased to announce an integration with CAPE Analytics, a provider of AI-powered geospatial property data. CAPE Analytics’ commercial property data APIs will be “accessible on the Cytora platform, enhancing insurers’ capabilities to assess and manage risks associated with… Read More

August 28, 2023 @ 6:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Many investors are eager to embrace cryptocurrency, but don’t feel they “have the data to do so safely,” according to an update from Chainalysis. With traditional assets, there are established providers “for a variety of metrics that investors can use to assess opportunity and risk:… Read More

August 24, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Datasite, an SaaS-based technology provider for global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) professionals, has completed the acquisition of MergerLinks, a London-based financial data platform used by finance professionals to find deal information, promote credentials and connect with investors, companies, and advisors for capital transactions. The acquisition… Read More

August 7, 2023 @ 6:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alternative payment methods such as mobile and digital wallets are being widely used in the e-Commerce space in Singapore, “accounting for 38.6% of the payments made on the online payments in 2023,” reveals GlobalData, a data and analytics company. GlobalData’s e-Commerce Analytics reveals “that Singapore’s… Read More

August 5, 2023 @ 6:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Investment in Australian startups over the first six months of 2023 “fell to US$1.11 billion, compared to US$3.64 billion over the corresponding period in 2022,” according to newly released data from KPMG. The latest numbers from the KPMG Private Enterprise Venture Pulse report shows that… Read More

August 4, 2023 @ 6:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payoneer (NASDAQ: PAYO), the financial technology company empowering the world’s small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to transact, do business, and grow globally, announced the asset acquisition of Israel-based Spott, a real-time data platform that uses AI to accurately surface, assess, and quantify data for more… Read More

August 3, 2023 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Peter Barcak, Founder & CEO of credolab, which claims to be today’s largest developer of bank-grade digital scorecards and data enrichment solutions based on behavioral metadata. The company leverages privacy-consented and anonymous smartphone and online metadata to provide lenders, risk officers,… Read More