Tagged: financial services

March 3, 2022 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is reportedly moving forward with its embedded finance plans. The investment bank’s collaboration with General Motors (GM) (NYSE: GM). This is the most recent step taken to capitalize on this growing Fintech trend. Goldman Sachs had taken over issuing the General… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wealthtech firm Addepar is pleased to confirm that it has joined the Open Cap Table Coalition, which is a cross-industry group that is focused on enhancing the interoperability, transparency, and portability of “company capitalization data.” Addepar, along with industry professionals from across the tech and… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 3:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Most US consumers are in enough credit card debt and they might do anything to “go back in time and change the outcome of their financial situation,” according to research shared by Fintech firm TrueAccord. TrueAccord notes that a survey of 2,000 general population Americans… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at HMBradley reveals that they recently detected a cyberattack on their systems. In this type of attack, often referred to as a “credential stuffing attack”, the perpetrator attempts “to gain access to a customer’s account using login credentials illegally obtained from another source.”… Read More

March 2, 2022 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Since 2016, Mambu and Persistent Systems have reportedly been assisting banking institutions and financial service providers with transforming their products and operations via digital acceleration and Cloud-native banking tech. A digital engineering firm, Persistent is a “strategic” partner of Mambu providing industry and technical expertise… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 11:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Malaysia’s CIMB has reported a credit loss of around $67 million because of a processing error that led to some clients receiving duplicate credits to their accounts. CIMB‘s management discovered the glitch, which was related to a third-party financial remittance service, in January 2022. The… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 9:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Douugh Ltd (ASX: DOU), the banking super app on a mission to help clients “autonomously budget, save and invest their money to live financially healthier lives,” is pleased to confirm a partnership with TrueLayer in order to access Open Banking data in Australia. Open Banking… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Frost Bank, which is one of the largest banks based in Texas, has partnered with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem, in order to help Frost clients “securely and easily integrate their accounts and finances online.” Via its mobile app and online… Read More

March 1, 2022 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) announced on Monday (February 28, 2022) that it would be making an investment in TRM Labs, a blockchain analysis company, becoming the latest in a growing number of Wall Street giants who are expanding their footprint in the crypto and DLT  industry…. Read More

February 28, 2022 @ 10:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

On February 25, 2022, within the official visit of Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc to Singapore, HDBank signed a cooperation agreement with Thought Machine group – a core banking solution provider. In Vietnam, HDBank will be working with Thought Machine to “develop the latest version… Read More

February 28, 2022 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Debitum is pleased to confirm that their clients, as of now, will be investing in financial instruments – Asset-Backed Securities (ABS). According to Debitum, this is one of the final steps after acquiring a license for the Debitum investment platform from the Financial and Capital… Read More

February 27, 2022 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

C6 Bank clients who have a global account with a US dollar or Euro balance are now able to withdraw cash from Chase ATMs free of charge beginning on February 24, 2022. The ATM network is available in the US and has over 16,000 units… Read More

February 27, 2022 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pakistan’s NayaPay Pvt. has reportedly acquired $13 million in early-stage capital as it aims to onboard consumers who an underbanked or financially underserved. The Karachi-headquartered Fintech firm’s seed round has been led by Zayn Capital, MSA Novo and Silicon Valley’s early-stage investor Graph Ventures, CEO… Read More

February 27, 2022 @ 4:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MX, the financial data platform and provider of modern connectivity, has announced a partnership with Rize, an embedded banking platform, in order to support financial technology developers and non-financial firms to efficiently “build, launch, and scale new financial products and services via a single API.”… Read More

February 26, 2022 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LatAm Fintech Belvo notes that enrichment products are able to offer out-of-the-box insights based on clients’ transactional data in order to enhance decision-making and allow firms to better understand customers. But how do these products work and what can you build with them, the team… Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 10:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deputy Governor of Bank Negara, Datuk Abdul Rasheed Ghaffour,  notes that he would like to express his gratitude to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for inviting him to deliver a keynote address (as posted by Bank Negara, Malaysia’s reserve bank. on February 24, 2022)…. Read More

February 25, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The blockchain sector saw some major changes during the past year, brought on by a “maturing” crypto ecosystem and the development of innovative technologies. American Fintech firm Ripple notes that it remained focused on better understanding and further analyzing this rapid “evolution” via primary and… Read More

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

European Fintech iwoca reveals that a new B2B payments solution is bringing together instant payments, free transactions and flexible financing “to address cash flow problems for both buyers and suppliers.” As mentioned in an update shared with Crowdfund Insider, online Fintech firm iwoca has noted… Read More

February 24, 2022 @ 11:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s investment platform easyMoney has looked into whether a current account is the best home for our funds. Inflation is surging rapidly and interest rates have declined, so easyMoney looks into whether a current account – where interest rates of up to 5% are possible… Read More

February 24, 2022 @ 9:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s investment service provider Kuflink has added new features to its platform. As noted by Kuflink‘s management, January was quite a busy month for them, with many new feature releases and updates to their previous releases. The company is hoping that their clients appreciate these… Read More