Tagged: financial services

Fintech Innovations like Open Banking, CBDCs, Stablecoins, Instant Payments Are Transforming Financial Services Sector: Report

Juniper Research specializes in identifying and appraising new high-growth market sectors within the digital ecosystem. They provide market research covering 90 technology markets. Their research reports form the basis on which their analysts make various predictions. As noted in an update shared by Juniper Research,… Read More

Central Bank of UAE, Reserve Bank of India to Support Innovation in Financial Services

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) signed recently a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates to enhance cooperation and jointly enable innovation in financial products and services. Under the MoU, the… Read More

Xapo Bank Integrates with UK Faster Payments

Xapo Bank now supports near-instant pounds Sterling payments and from the United Kingdom. Xapo Bank confirmed in a blog post that they are pleased to announce that they have joined the Faster Payment System (FPS). This means their members can now “send Pounds Sterling directly… Read More

Fintech GoCardless, Zapier to Automate Payment Processes Across 5,000+ Apps

GoCardless, a global firm focused on bank payment solutions, has integrated with Zapier, the key player supporting no-code automation, in order “to help businesses save time and energy when managing their payments.” Businesses can now “build Zaps — Zapier’s automated workflows — for GoCardless, eliminating… Read More

Robinhood Reportedly Backs Down Over Signature Bank Bets

Robinhood Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) has reportedly decided to make an exception to its short position ban for customers who had placed winning “puts” against failed lender Signature Bank (Nasdaq: SBNY), the FT revealed on Thursday (March 16, 2023). Put options are essentially contracts that provide a… Read More

Indian Fintech Platform PhonePe Secures Additional $200M in Funding from Walmart

PhonePe, one of India’s largest Fintech platforms, announced it has raised an additional $200 million in primary capital from Walmart, at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. This new funding reportedly comes as “a part of PhonePe’s ongoing fundraise of up to $1 billion in… Read More

AI Adoption: Financial Infrastructure Firm Stripe to Help Monetize OpenAI’s Products, Enhance Fintech Platform with GPT-4

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced OpenAI has chosen Stripe to power payments as it “moves to commercialize its groundbreaking ChatGPT and DALL·E generative AI technologies.” Stripe is also “incorporating OpenAI’s new natural language technology, GPT-4, into its products and services.” Peter Welinder,… Read More

Digital Banking: Hong Kong’s livi Bank Launches New Business Service to Empower SMEs

livi bank, which claims to be one of Hong Kong’s leading lifestyle and technology-driven virtual banks, recently announced the full launch of livi Business, which is described as its game-changing service designed “to empower SMEs (small and medium enterprises) to pursue their ambitions by meeting… Read More

Fintech Firm Astra Tech, Mastercard to Pave the Way for Digital Payment Solutions

Astra Tech’s PayBy, a Central Bank-UAE licensed Fintech offering a variety of financial technology services, has achieved a significant milestone in the MENA region fintech space by becoming one of the first fintech player “to obtain a Mastercard (NYSE: MA) principal membership license.” This achievement… Read More

DTCC Launches Centralized Communication Solution As Part of Lens Service in Support of LIBOR Cessation

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services, announced that it has launched its new LIBOR Benchmark Replacement Index solution “to support the industry’s transition from LIBOR benchmark rates to Secured Overnight Financing Rate Data (SOFR) as… Read More

Singlife Enhances Investment Capabilities via Tech Partnership with Citi, BlackRock

Homegrown financial services company Singlife has appointed Citi and BlackRock Aladdin to “provide it with a comprehensive technology platform to unify and transform its asset management capabilities across its front, middle and back-office offering.” Citi and BlackRock Aladdin previously “entered into an alliance to leverage… Read More

MENA Region Fintech Paymob, Shahid to Expand VOD Digital Payments in Egypt

Paymob, the financial services enabler in the MENA region and Pakistan (MENAP) and Shahid, the Arabic streaming platform by MBC GROUP, announced their signing of a new partnership agreement. The partnership “enables Shahid customers in Egypt to pay for their subscriptions via electronic wallets processed… Read More

Experian Testing Service that Could Help UK Consumers Quickly Build a Credit File

Experian recently announced plans to pilot a new service that could help millions of financially excluded people “get better access to mainstream financial services.” Experian’s initiative aims “to help people with little or no credit history – the so-called ‘credit invisibles’ – build out their… Read More

Germany’s Bundesbank Convenes Financial Crisis Team to Assess Impact of Silicon Valley Bank Demise

The Bundesbank reportedly convened its crisis team on Monday (March 13, 2023) in order to assess the impact of the fallout of the US-based lender Silicon Valley Bank (NASDAQ:SIVB) on the domestic market, even while no emergency action or measures were expected in Europe. As… Read More

Israel-based Fintech Liquidity Group to Support Gulf Startups with $500M

Liquidity Group, an Israel-based fintech and asset manager, is looking to provide $500 million this year “to support startups in the UAE and across the Middle East.” The company reached unicorn status last month, “with fresh investment of $40 million from Japan’s MUFG at a… Read More

Feedzai, UK Finance to Highlight Challenges for Banking Sector, Identify Potentially Fraudulent Activities

Feedzai, the firm focused on fighting financial crime with AI, has partnered with UK Finance, the trade association for the UK’s banking and financial services sector, to deliver its Annual Fraud Report. UK Finance has chosen Feedzai as the lead sponsor and contributor “for the… Read More

Fintech Firm Capitolis Remains Focused on Expansion of Capital Marketplace Business

Capitolis, the technology company reimagining financial markets, announced that its subsidiary, Capitolis Global Broker Dealer LLC, has applied “to become a broker-dealer.” This is the next step in Capitolis’ journey “to provide innovative solutions to the market in order to keep the capital markets both… Read More

Credit Karma to Help Consumers Know, Grow, Protect Net Worth

Credit Karma (NASDAQ: INTU), the consumer technology platform with more than 120 million members in the U.S., announced Net Worth, a new product experience within Credit Karma that will help millions of members know, grow and protect their wealth. The introduction of Net Worth “brings… Read More

Fintech Candidly Raises $20.5M to Help People Repay Student Debt, Build Savings

Candidly, which claims to be the market’s most comprehensive student debt and savings optimization platform, announced it raised $20.5M in a Series B round of financing, led by Altos Ventures, with follow-on participation from Cercano Management. The Series B investment round reportedly “follows a year… Read More

Virtual Bank Grasshopper’s Growth Continues with Digital Banking Capabilities, Expansion of Fintech Partnerships

Grasshopper, the “client-first” digital bank built for the business and innovation economy, recently announced steady growth and solid momentum for the year ending 2022. The bank has reportedly “expanded its management team, relaunched last March with a new vision, and has built strong lines of… Read More

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