Tagged: fintech trends

March 2, 2023 @ 4:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Sarah Howell, SVP of Partner Programs at Infinant, a financial technology company that provides pioneering infrastructure to help banks build embeddable financial products above their legacy banking technology. Sarah Howell shared her insights on the origins of the ecosystem strategy,… Read More

March 1, 2023 @ 11:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company, announces the next phase of its expansion plans, in which it will increase its global headcount by more than 20% in 2023, which includes hiring in India, Japan and other world regions for the first time. The company… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 10:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cashfree Payments, India’s payments and API banking company, announced its strategic acquisition of Zecpe, a one-click checkout company. Zecpe enables e-commerce businesses “to improve checkout conversion by making the process quick and seamless for customers.” Zecpe will now “operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cashfree… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Rally Commerce, the headless, one-click checkout solution for digital merchants, announces a partnership with Swell in order “to give merchants better control over their business and deliver a seamless checkout experience for customers.” Swell’s infrastructure “coupled with Rally’s checkout empowers small merchants to scale their… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pagos, a payment intelligence company that empowers businesses to optimize their digital payment infrastructure and maximize revenue, lower payments costs, and reduce fraud,  announced an oversubscribed $34 million Series A investment led by Arbor Ventures, a global fintech-focused venture firm. Additional participating investors “include Point… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 11:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Doconomy, the climate technology startup helping banks, brands, and consumers to better understand and reduce their environmental impact – has acquired Stockholm-based financial wellbeing fintech Dreams Technology. This marks the “first” deal of its kind “to bridge the unique intersection of behavioural economics and climate… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pidgin, a secure real-time payments platform built for the future of payments, announced that Community Bankers’ Bank (CBB), is “extending the platform to its network of independent community banks in the Fifth Federal Reserve District and contiguous states.” CBB selected Pidgin to “provide its community… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the global firm focused on the generational shift away from credit cards, announced strong momentum in the US, “with a 71% YoY increase in GMV, while improving credit loss rates by 37%.” Now with 34 million consumers in the US, the market has “become… Read More

February 27, 2023 @ 4:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Despite signs of slowing inflation, a majority of working Americans (62%) feel anxious about their current financial situation, according to new Harris Poll research commissioned by BPC’s Funding our Future Coalition and DailyPay among “over 1,300 employed Americans.” This anxiety is “heightened among women (69%).”… Read More

February 25, 2023 @ 10:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK car finance fintech Carmoola has raised a £8.5 million Series A round and £95 million debt facility to improve “the way people pay for car purchases.” The investment round was “led by US-based fintech specialists QED Investors, with participation from existing investors VentureFriends and… Read More

February 24, 2023 @ 4:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Altai Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, announced the closing of Altai Ventures Fund II, LP. The fund closed with $53 million in total commitments “surpassing its goal of $50 million.” Investors of Altai’s latest fund “consisted of leading financial and institutional Limited Partners (LPs),… Read More

February 23, 2023 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

After an official tender process to procure a prepaid payment card service, the State Treasury of Finland and Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of Finland) awarded the contract to Finnish issuer processor Enfuce. The State Treasury of Finland, Kela, and Enfuce “signed the five-year contract… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 9:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UAE-based Fintech firm InvestSky has launched a social investing platform with assistance from Alpaca. InvestSky is a social investing platform that “offers a new generation of investors the opportunity to embark on trading stocks in a more inclusive, intuitive, and informed way.” InvestSky was established… Read More

February 22, 2023 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam’s Fintech start-up GIMO has announced the first close of its Series A funding with a US$5.1 million investment “led by TNB Aura.” Other investment firms joining the investment round “are returning investors including Integra Partners, Resolution Ventures, Blauwpark Partners, ThinkZone Ventures, and Y Combinator.”… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Berlin-based Pliant claims it is looking back at a very successful year 2022. While entering seven additional European markets, it also “recorded a sixfold growth of its customer portfolio.” With the closing of this Series A investment round, the company is “now setting itself up… Read More

February 20, 2023 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research defines Open Banking as the practice of “sharing, and to an extent control, personal financial information between FIs (Financial Institutions) and TPPs (Third-party Providers), mostly in the form of Fintech developers, subject to customer consent via the use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).”… Read More

February 19, 2023 @ 10:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PhonePe, one of India’s largest Fintech platforms, announced it has raised another $100 million in primary capital from Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global, and TVS Capital Funds, at a pre-money valuation of $12 billion. This new investment “follows the recent $350 million primary fundraise that closed… Read More

February 19, 2023 @ 1:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wedge Financial, Inc., a fintech company that brings the power of the markets and programmable payments to everyday spending, is partnering with Visa (NYSE: V) in order to launch a debit card “connected to the Wedge app, accelerating its mission to revolutionize consumer spending.” Wedge… Read More

February 18, 2023 @ 9:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Fintech Sikoia has successfully “raised $6m in seed funding, bringing its total capital raised to over $8.3m, including a pre-seed round from the previous year.” This milestone caps a solid year for Sikoia, which “saw the company grow its international client list, make key… Read More

February 17, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fluid Finance, a Fintech company headquartered in Geneva, has partnered with Sumsub, a global all-in-one verification platform, “to enhance user onboarding and ensure bulletproof fraud protection.” Fluid’s aim is “to create a new financial model by combining traditional and digital finance.” Strict compliance, Know Your… Read More