Tagged: financial services

November 16, 2022 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Merchant commerce omnichannel platform, Pine Labs announced its partnership with Singlife with Aviva, a financial services company in Singapore. Through this partnership, all customer-facing platforms and internal employee gift cards for Singlife “will be powered by Qwikcilver, a Pine Labs brand.” Pine Labs will also… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Atom bank and Phoebus Software Limited (PSL) have reportedly signed a new 3-year contract. The digital bank which streamlined the mortgage market by introducing the use of mobile apps in order to support its lending processes, has been a Phoebus user since Atom Bank’s official… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 8:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., one of Japan’s leading global financial institutions, announced an agreement “to collaborate in providing sustainability solutions to the bank’s corporate clients.” The agreement will enable Mizuho “to strengthen its offering to customers by combining LSEG’s… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK BaaS (Banking as a Service) fintech firm Griffin and global FS OS (Financial Services Operating System) 11:FS Foundry announced a new partnership “to help businesses actualise the benefits of embedded finance – the process of building new fintech products and embedding financial services directly… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 10:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Credisense, a no-code origination, workflow and credit decisioning platform, has partnered with cloud-native SaaS banking and financial services platform Mambu, “to accelerate the modernization of lending systems in the Asia Pacific market.” The partnership will “provide lenders of all sizes with a flexible end-to-end lending… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) announced to all its eligible customers the possibility of “opening an account with a debit card for those under 18 years of age.” The novelty, which passed through an initial phase of testing which started in June and has already “registered a… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 10:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global financial technology platform of “choice” for large businesses, announced that Instacart, the grocery technology company in North America, “has selected the company as an additional payments processing partner.” As part of the new partnership, Instacart will “leverage Adyen functionality, including… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the fintech platform driving access to alternative investments for the wealth management industry, announced the recent expansion and official opening of its new Lisbon office “as the company’s global hub for technology development and operations.” In the past 24 months, iCapital increased its global… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 8:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After expansive growth in both client base and product offerings, Addepar is pleased to announce “the continued growth of their European presence.” The opening of their London office “follows last year’s expansion in Edinburgh.” CEO Eric Poirier said: “We’re excited to see this addition to our… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Connect 2022, Europe’s Fintech event for the entire ecosystem, recently released its 2022 Industry Benchmark Report, Fintech in Flux: Thriving in the Age of Uncertainty, showing that customers “remain the biggest focus, with 86 per cent of respondents investing in AI to stay competitive.”… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Globally, rising inflation, a higher cost of living, and slower wage growth are impacting the lives of people right around the world. A recent report suggested that many consumers are turning to physical cash to help manage their finances amid the cost-of-living crisis. But Muhannad… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The latest funding round closed by Fintech Ramp brings the total raised by the firm to $122.7m over the past 12 months alone, “despite the current crypto bear market.” Ramp says it is pleased to announce that they’ve just secured $70M via their series B… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blnk, a fintech startup that enables instant consumer credit in Egypt, has “raised $23.7 million in equity and debt funding, and $8.3 million in securitized bond issuance to accelerate financial inclusion within underserved communities across the country.” The funds will support “further development of Blnk’s… Read More

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

Agent IQ, a provider of digital customer engagement solutions specializing in making financial services more personal again, announced that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The investment round was “led by Mendon Venture Partners and included participation from renowned VCs Acronym VC… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tonik, the Philippines’ first neobank, continues “to accelerate financial and credit inclusion with the launch of its two new lending products, Flex Loan and Big Loan.” Building on the success of its all-digital savings portfolio and successful launch of its first lending product, Quick Loan,… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 8:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cash, check or charge? How “quaint.” The way we move money — and what we consider money — has “changed dramatically over the last decade,” according to an update from Mastercard (NYSE: MA). The use of cash is “declining, and personal checks are largely on… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 4:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The all-new Kuda app has arrived on the Play Store and the App Store with features including investments and UK-to-Nigeria transfers. Financial inclusion is in “our soul,” the company claims, while noting that since 2019, they have worked “with almost five million users to build… Read More

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

Shieldpay, the Fintech solving complex B2B payments, has announced its partnership with Checkout.com, the global payments platform, “to support customers that need more than just straight-through-processing.” This partnership will allow Checkout.com “to leverage Shieldpay’s unique payment engine and digital escrow capabilities to address the payment… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Weavr, a London-headquartered technology provider that empowers businesses with plug-and-play embedded finance solutions, sets up in Singapore “as part of its mission to make embedded financial services available to any digital business.” Backed by a US$40m Series A led by American investment firm Tiger Global,… Read More

November 9, 2022 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayTabs — MENA and South Asia’s payments Fintech — in a new move announced that it plans “to acquire a 100% stake in Digital Pay, Saudi Arabia.” Under the terms of the acquisition, Digital Pay will “serve as PayTabs’ flagship point of sale (POS) terminal… Read More