Tagged: fintech trends

January 21, 2023 @ 3:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ZEBEDEE, the Fintech and next-generation payment processor for the gaming industry, and VIKER, the innovative mobile games studio that’s taking over the Play-and-Earn space,  announced the launch of two new rewarded games, “with more to come soon.” These new releases continue VIKER’s strategy of using… Read More

January 21, 2023 @ 2:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform, announced its new web push provisioning product. With web push provisioning, Marqeta customers can “reduce friction at the point-of-sale and enable their users to pay directly from their mobile wallets without requiring them to download a… Read More

January 21, 2023 @ 1:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ingenico, which claims to be the global leader in payments acceptance solutions, and Fujitsu Frontech North America, through its subsidiary Fulcrum Biometrics, Inc., unveiled (what they claim to be) the world’s “most secure, accurate and seamless biometric payment solution based on palm vein identification.” This… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PopID, a biometric fintech company, and Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, retail’s first choice for unified commerce solutions, have announced a partnership “to integrate PopPay into Toshiba’s front-end point-of-sale and self-service solutions running its ELERA Commerce Platform.” PopPay enables consumers “to authenticate their identity for payment… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

C2FO, which claims to be the world’s on-demand working capital platform, claims it finished 2022 strong “in the face of shifting global financial conditions.” The company’s focus on “providing fast, flexible and equitable access to cash flow became an even more significant asset to businesses… Read More

January 20, 2023 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Alchemy Pay team is pleased to announce that Visa has listed Alchemy Pay as an Official Service Provider. Alchemy Pay has been “added as part of Visa’s Third Party Agent (TPA) Program and can be found listed as Alchemy GPS here.” This is “a… Read More

January 19, 2023 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Dock, an innovator in financial technology infrastructure across Latin America, has launched Dock One, an integrated cloud-based platform for banking and payments that “allows companies to easily scale business operations anywhere in the world by offering financial services enablement to their customers.” The innovative platform… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 5:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trakx, an emerging global Fintech company providing thematic Crypto Tradable Indices through its registered Tier-1 trading platform, announced the launch of three new indices named: Growth, Balanced and Conservative. The new indices are “designed to meet the increasing demand for risk-adjusted crypto indices from high-net-worth… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The financial services sector has evolved considerably during the past decade, with many new Fintech startups and banking challengers raising substantial funding to fundamentally improve how consumers perform transactions. Individuals and business organizations across the globe have been moving their activities online, a digital transformation… Read More

January 18, 2023 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lynk, the payment solution providing merchants a secure alternative to costly credit card processing fees while powering customer loyalty programs,  announced it has added Pay by Bank, the No. 1 customer-requested feature, to its platform. Pay by Bank allows businesses “to reduce their credit card… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 12:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ingenico, which claims to be a global leader in payments acceptance solutions, and Klarna, the “leader” in the generational shift away from credit cards, announced a partnership that will facilitate the roll out of Klarna’s flexible payment options “at the point of sale using PPaaS,… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sprinque, Europe’s most flexible B2B payments platform, has raised a €6m seed funding round led by Connect Ventures, “with participation from Kraken Ventures, Inference Partners, and SeedX.” Existing investors Antler, Volta Ventures, and Force Over Mass also contributed to the investment round. Sprinque’s B2B payments… Read More

January 17, 2023 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Divilo, a Spain-based fintech providing B2B financial services, and ThetaRay, a leading provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, announced they will “collaborate to protect Divilo’s growing services against money laundering, sanctions violations, and other financial crimes.” Through the agreement, ThetaRay will “provide Divilo its SONAR… Read More

January 15, 2023 @ 8:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SentBe, Korea’s fintech company, announced the official launch of its international money transfer service in the U.S., “a significant move in the company’s global expansion.” Customers, including migrant workers in the U.S., can now “send U.S. dollars to more than 50 countries with greater ease… Read More

January 14, 2023 @ 7:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP) announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nipendo, a company used by global businesses “to automate and streamline business-to-business (B2B) payments processes.” The transaction is American Express’ latest strategic step “toward its goal of creating a leading end-to-end… Read More

January 14, 2023 @ 6:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

EBANX, a payments fintech helping global companies grow in Latin America and other world regions, announced the appointment of Fabio Scopeta as its new Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO), “to lead EBANX’s Product and Technology divisions globally.” With more than 25 years of experience,… Read More

January 12, 2023 @ 9:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IFIN, which claims to be the first of its kind Islamic Fintech, announces its partnership with Bank Nizwa, Oman’s “first” full-fledged Islamic bank in the Sultanate, offering a plethora of Shariah-compliant products and services, “to introduce instant Islamic ‘Goods Financing’ with the aim of enriching… Read More

January 12, 2023 @ 9:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc., the fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially-smart, independent kids, announced the launch of Greenlight Level Up™, an interactive, curriculum-based financial literacy game. Level Up goes beyond the National Standards for K-12 Personal Financial Education developed by the… Read More

January 11, 2023 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

40Seas, a Fintech platform for cross-border trade financing, has raised $111 million to deliver a much more efficient and cost-effective financing framework for SMEs involved in global commerce. The company’s $11 million seed funding round, “led by Team8 with participation from ZIM Integrated Shipping Services… Read More

January 10, 2023 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BNP Paribas announces a strategic investment in AccessFintech, which claims to be a leading fintech company “evolving the capital markets’ operating model through data and workflow collaboration.” The investment is being “made by BNP Paribas’s Securities Services unit, the bank’s post-trade arm.” It will “enable… Read More