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Fintech DailyPay, a Launching Partner for Visa+, Announces New Service for Clients in the US

DailyPay, a launching partner for Visa+, announced that the innovative new service is available to DailyPay’s millions of users nationwide. Launched in late 2023, the mission of Visa+ is to create “an interoperable future, where paying across services is as seamless as using any one… Read More

TrustCommerce Is Adding PayPal and Venmo to Healthcare-focused Payments Platform

TrustCommerce, a Sphere company and a provider of end-to-end integrated healthcare payments and security software, announced that it is adding PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL) and Venmo, in the U.S., to its healthcare-focused payments platform, enabling providers to offer patients additional flexibility and modern payment options. Through this… Read More

Fintech Invoys and KUNA Pay to Enable Crypto Payment Options via Invoice Links

Invoys, a fintech transforming the invoicing industry, and KUNA Pay, a key player in the crypto payment space, have announced a collaboration to enable businesses with crypto payment options directly from invoice links. The partnership between Invoys and KUNA Pay is said to “mark a… Read More

Uber Teams Up with Mastercard and Payfare to Launch Uber Pro Card in Canada

Uber (NYSE: UBER) announced a new partnership with Mastercard and Payfare to launch the Uber Pro Card, providing free instant payouts after every trip or delivery1 and enhanced loyalty features for drivers and delivery people on the Uber platform in Canada, powered by Payfare’s leading… Read More

JP Morgan Asset Management, iCapital to Expand Private Market Offerings to APAC’s Wealth Investors

JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM), a global asset manager with US$213 billion in alternative assets under management, and iCapital, the global fintech platform driving the world’s alternative investment marketplace for the wealth management industry, announced a partnership to open up access “for APAC wealth managers… Read More

ChargeAfter, the Embedded Finance Platform, to Transform How Banks Deploy Lending Solutions

ChargeAfter, the embedded lending platform for point-of-sale financing, has unveiled The Lending Hub, a platform that transforms how banks deliver lending solutions for merchants and their customers at scale. Designed to empower banks and financial institutions “to streamline the development, management, and distribution of multiple… Read More

Innovate Finance Introduces Unicorn Council for UK Fintech Founders

Innovate Finance, the independent industry body for UK Fintech, has launched the Unicorn Council for UK Fintech (UCFT), a coalition of UK-based Fintech unicorn founders to accelerate and unlock promised growth in the UK FinTech sector. The Council will be “co-chaired by Janine Hirt, CEO… Read More

UK Fintech TangoPay and Currencycloud to Improve Remittance Services

Currencycloud, the Fintech firm focused on simplifying business processes in a multi-currency environment, has teamed up with UK-headquartered Fintech company, TangoPay to improve its remittance service for its UK-based expat clients. This enhancement will be achieved by introducing real-time competitive foreign exchange (FX) rates along… Read More

BNPL Adoption Report: Buy Now Pay Later Client Satisfaction Improves But Service Provider Performance Varies Significantly

Although the rapid rise of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) services has been accompanied by a growing chorus of concern about runaway consumer debt, the customers who are using these services are growing “increasingly satisfied with their experiences.” According to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S…. Read More

Open Banking Fintech Yapily Partners with Uncapped, a Working Capital Provider

Yapily, a provider of open banking solutions, is announcing its partnership with Uncapped, a Fintech providing working capital funding to scaling brands, retailers, and merchants across the UK, EU, and US. This collaboration significantly bolsters progress in “the financial lending sector and democratises access to… Read More

Fintech Platform Backbase and Alacriti to Enable Instant Payment Solutions for FIs

Backbase says that Alacriti, a cloud-based payments and money services provider, will integrate its payments hub solution into the Backbase Engagement Banking Platform. Through this partnership, Backbase clients will be “able to offer instant payment capabilities to their customers. Backbase, leveraging Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub, will… Read More

United Fintech Acquires Investments from BNP Paribas and Citi

BNP Paribas (EPA: BNP) and Citi (NYSE:C) have become the first institutional investors in United Fintech Group Limited, a neutral Digital Transformation Platform, as part of a strategic investment round led by Citi. United Fintech is also in advanced talks “with other leading strategic investors… Read More

Asia Development Bank (ADB) to Support Fintech Development in Gujarat, India

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced recently that it approved a $23 million loan to enhance access “to quality fintech education, research, and innovation at the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) in India.” As stated in a blog post, GIFT is a state-owned enterprise… Read More

Real-Time International Payments: Ebury and Fintech Nium to Enable Remittance Service in Brazil

Ebury, one of the largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the enabler of real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil. The announcement follows regulatory “approval of Ebury’s acquisition of Brazilian fintech Bexs,… Read More

Open Banking: Fintech OpenPayd Enhances Instant Payments with TrueLayer Partnership

OpenPayd, the global payments and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, today announced its partnership with TrueLayer, Europe’s open banking payment network, to enhance its instant payment solutions offering for its clients. OpenPayd will leverage TrueLayer’s payments network “throughout the UK and Europe to enable secure and instant… Read More

Former PayPal and Venmo Professionals Introduce Meso to Link Cryptocurrency Wallets with Banking Accounts

A professional team of Fintech veterans have introduced Meso, a payment platform which brings crypto-assets and fiat currencies closer, thus making it seamless for clients to transfer funds on- and off-chain. In statements shared with Fortune, Meso co-founder and CEO Ben Mills explained that a… Read More

Fintech M&A Activity Declines YoY as Acquisitions Favor Enterprise Fintechs – Report

An extensive report has been shared, entitled Financial Fusion: Fintech’s M&A Landscape Unveiled: A guide to fintech M&A and the next wave of deals, by the researchers at Pitchbook. PitchBook says that the Fintech sector continues to attract substantial investments but certain segments might have… Read More

Australia Fintech Activity Declines Amidst Global Slowdown – Research Report

2023 was a challenging year for the fintech market, with total global fintech investment dropping from US$196.6 billion across 7,515 deals in 2022 to a six-year low of US$113.7 billion across 4,547 deals in 2023 according to the Pulse of Fintech H2’23—a bi-annual report published… Read More

Fintech Professional Shares Feedback After Testing Digital Bank bunq’s AI Features, which Need A Lot of Improvement

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

Majority of UK Startups Self-Finance New Ventures – Research Study

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

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