Tagged: fintech adoption

February 8, 2024 @ 2:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), an enabler of cloud banking for the global financial services industry, announced that Mechanics and Farmers Bank (M&F) is live on the nCino Cloud Banking Platform. The technology upgrade is helping M&F process loans more quickly and “creating increased convenience and… Read More

February 8, 2024 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nuvei Corporation (Nasdaq: NVEI), the Canadian fintech company, announces that it is launching its enhanced omnichannel payments solution for merchants and platforms. Nuvei’s unified commerce offering, which is now available to customers “operating outside of North America for the first time, is enabling businesses to… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 6:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

NovoPayment, a mission-critical financial and payments infrastructure provider, announced today that it has received Mastercard certification, as part of the Mastercard Network Enablement Partner program, to switch and process Mastercard transactions in Mexico. The Network Enablement Partner (NEP) program is “a Mastercard initiative that enables… Read More

February 7, 2024 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK fintech Atlantic Money is set to offer its fixed-fee money transfers across additional major markets. Within 1.5 years of launching in the UK, Atlantic Money has “met relevant requirements to offer its services in the United States, Canada and Australia.” Users will be able… Read More

February 6, 2024 @ 8:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Diversiview, the portfolio analysis and optimization tool developed by Australia-based fintech firm LENSELL, has reportedly expanded its analytics coverage to include securities listed on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). As noted in the update, this extension allows users “to analyze and optimize investment… Read More

February 5, 2024 @ 2:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN) has announced that it is partnering with BILL (NYSE: BILL), a financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), to deliver advanced acquiring and issuing experiences for BILL’s accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) solutions. The partnership started with Adyen for… Read More

February 5, 2024 @ 2:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SDK.finance, a Fintech solutions provider, has recently announced its integration with ComplyAdvantage, a key player focused on financial crime intelligence. This integration is said to mark a new era in “streamlined compliance processes for SDK.finance clients.” With the integration of ComplyAdvantage’s advanced AI-driven technologies, SDK.finance… Read More

January 31, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Kriya, a B2B payments Fintech, has announced that it has secured a new £50 million debt facility from debt partner Viola Credit. This will allow the fintech “to power over £1 billion of B2B Payments over the next 24 months.” With this facility, Kriya intends… Read More

January 26, 2024 @ 11:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

XSquare, a B2B payments fintech has inked a partnership with Reltime, a Web 3.0 and Layer 1 Blockchain platform with wide ranging applications. This partnership will aim to “ensure security, transparency, automation and accuracy in B2B payment solutions from XSquare, including transaction processing, accounts bookkeeping… Read More

January 26, 2024 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Axyon AI, an Italian AI fintech company, has closed its latest funding round led by the US-based venture capital firm Montage Ventures and accompanied by The Techshop SGR, alongside other angel investors. The investment round marks a new chapter in Axyon AI’s journey “towards revolutionising… Read More

January 22, 2024 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech sector has not been spared from the “sweeping” downturn in the venture market, according to an extensive update shared by CBInsights. In fact, in 2023, funding to fintech startups “dropped off more severely than broader venture funding,” the CBInsights report noted. Based on… Read More

January 19, 2024 @ 6:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kashable, a fintech platform that provides socially responsible credit and financial wellness solutions as an employer-sponsored voluntary benefit, announced a Series B capital raise of $25.6 million. The round was reportedly “co-led by Revolution Ventures and Moneta Ventures, with participation from EJF Capital and Krillion… Read More

January 18, 2024 @ 5:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, announced its work with Best Buy in order “to help power the retailer’s expansion into prescription health and wellness technology products.” Stripe explains that it “provides the payments infrastructure for Best Buy’s new platform, Wellness.BestBuyHealth.com, a new convenient… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Defining “competitiveness” in financial services is not a simple task, according to an extensive industry report. The aim of the report, produced by Luxembourg for Finance (LFF) in partnership with OMFIF, is to consider “the relative competitiveness of the European financial services industry against their… Read More

January 14, 2024 @ 5:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

bunq, a Dutch digital banking platform, has started describing itself as “the first AI-powered bank in Europe.” However, like most firms that claim to leverage AI, there is more hype than actual value being delivered to consumers. During the past few years, artificial intelligence has… Read More

January 9, 2024 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financing a new business can be one of the biggest hurdles entrepreneurs face, according to an update shared by UK’s Starling Bank. Some 85% of UK startups launched in the last three years “have relied on the founder’s personal capital as the initial source of… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 11:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid says that it has led the industry shift away from screen scraping, with the majority of their traffic now “on or committed to APIs.” Plaid are pleased to see regulators “reaffirm the industry’s adoption of this new technology.” At the same time, the open… Read More

January 3, 2024 @ 9:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The board of SaveLend Group AB has updated the growth strategy and adopted new financial goals for the group until 2027. By 2027, the company aims to have “a net revenue exceeding MSEK 450 with an EBIT margin of at least 27%.” SaveLend Group is… Read More

December 30, 2023 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BridgeFT, an API-first, cloud-native wealth infrastructure software company that enables financial institutions, Fintech innovators, and registered investment advisors to deliver better, data-driven outcomes for their clients, announced that the total assets under management powered by BridgeFT’s WealthTech API across its client network grew by “more… Read More

December 29, 2023 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Akash Sinha, CEO & Co-Founder, Cashfree Payments, has shared key insights with CI that are focused around UPI, digital payments and the overall Fintech space. Akash Sinha from Cashfree Payments notes that even with global economic uncertainty, the fintech sector in India has “continued to… Read More