Tagged: fintech trends

June 24, 2022 @ 2:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tell.money, the Fintech solution that provides innovative and “rapidly” deployable open banking services for banks and other account providers, has teamed up with Toqio, the Fintech SaaS platform that “enables organizations to build and launch fintech propositions.” Addressing Toqio’s PSD2 (Payment Service Directive Two) requirement… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 8:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

iCapital, the Fintech platform driving access and efficiency in alternative investing for the asset and wealth management sectors, and SIMON Markets, the Fintech company offering a digital platform designed to help financial advisors understand and manage structured investments, annuities, and other risk-managed products, have announced… Read More

June 23, 2022 @ 12:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

​​Enfuce, which claims to be one of the fastest-growing Fintech firms in Europe, has reportedly chosen Konsentus Verify in order to protect its clients from unauthorized/fraudulent third parties gaining access to account data and funds. Enfuce offers a modern, flexible, scalable, open banking service that… Read More

June 19, 2022 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) and the Financial Services Authority of Indonesia (Otoritas Jasa Keuangan: OJK) have exchanged letters on Fintech Cooperation Framework “regarding Innovation in the financial sector.” This will lead to “increased exchanges regarding innovative trends and strengthen the cooperative relationship between the… Read More

June 19, 2022 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Momentum in Alberta’s Fintech sector continues to build as crypto exchange company FTX revealed plans to establish its first Canadian location in Calgary after the acquisition of Calgary-based Bitvo — a trading platform “offering Canadians a secure and easy way to buy, sell and trade… Read More

June 17, 2022 @ 7:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aviva reportedly helps millions of customers with planning for their futures so its a key moment for the Open Banking community when they decide “to make a move in this space.” Bud‘s management noted that they’re looking forward “to supporting them along the way.” It’s… Read More

June 17, 2022 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech Australia has signed up major corporate partners, establishing a total of 11 key partnerships within the last five months. Fintech Australia‘s ecosystem partnership program assists firms with collaborating with the Fintech sector and foster relationships with its major players. The new Gold tier partners… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 7:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech lender Uncapped announced the acquisition of Sugar, a specialist flexible finance provider for gaming and digital apps. Sugar will “continue to trade under the new brand Sugar powered by Uncapped.” The acquisition gives Uncapped “a foothold in the gaming and apps market.” Sugar also… Read More

June 16, 2022 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

With summer firmly upon us, Lisbon’s technology scene is beginning to heat up as it welcomes the launch of “plug-and-play” finance provider, Weavr, to Portugal. In recent times, Portugal has become “a noted hub for startups,” according to an update shared with CI. In fact,… Read More

June 14, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) announced a new Start Path initiative that has been designed for Ukrainian Fintech firms and entrepreneurs “to enable Ukrainian startups to accelerate growth and contribute to the rebuilding of the country’s economy.” The initiative – announced at Money 20/20 Europe in Amsterdam… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 11:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sentinels, a Fenergo company and Europe’s intelligent transaction monitoring platform, has been appointed by payments fintech kevin. “to handle transaction monitoring compliance.” The relationship means kevin. now “detects suspicious transactions in real-time while ensuring compliance with local anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.” kevin.’s account-to-account (A2A) payment… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll Finance, a “next-generation” Fintech offering “smart” financing solutions to homeowners, recently announced that Modulr, the embedded payments platform, will be powering its underlying payments infrastructure. The partnership will “enable Scroll to accelerate its mission to disrupt the homeowner financing sector in the UK.” Scroll… Read More

June 10, 2022 @ 10:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC recently revealed that it is offering the Oxford Fintech Program to staff, “in first partnership of its kind between the University and the banking sector.” One of Europe’s biggest banks, HSBC, is joining forces with Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, “to help train… Read More

June 9, 2022 @ 11:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The AXIAN Group recently revealed that it has joined Disruptech Egypt Fund I, which is a venture capital fund focused on supporting technology-enabled firms and Fintech startups in Egypt. Disruptech Egypt Fund I is a VC fund dedicated to further developing Egypt’s financial-technologies sector by… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 7:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The German-Austrian Bluecode and the Swiss TWINT are the first mobile payment systems to become “interoperable with one another.” Interoperability of said two systems “is based on the specifications of EMPSA (European Mobile Payments System Association).” TWINT and Bluecode interoperability has already “been running since… Read More

June 6, 2022 @ 10:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MyApp, complementing Enfuce’s turnkey solution Card as a Service, is a white-label mobile app “with all the features of a modern card management.” With MyApp, Enfuce now “allows its customers to move to market with their new payment products in a more complete form.” As… Read More

June 5, 2022 @ 10:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian Fintech firm Razorpay notes that Slack has become one of the “most popular” communication apps used in businesses today. As mentioned in a blog post by Razorpay, Slack is a digital workplace communication tool that “connects you to people and tools you work with.”… Read More

June 5, 2022 @ 5:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services umbrella of the Linux Foundation, recently confirmed the addition of new corporate members, “including Google Cloud, Société Générale, American Express, Point72, Mirantis, and The Digital Dollar Project.” Building upon its 19 new Members in 2021 and… Read More

June 3, 2022 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Vestwell, the modern Fintech engine powering savings and investment programs for small businesses and individual savers, recently announced that the Commonwealth of Virginia has selected it “as the program administrator for RetirePath VirginiaSM.” The partnership will “provide Virginians with access to a workplace retirement plan… Read More

June 3, 2022 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoneyGram International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGI), which claims to be an international “leader” in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and Mobily Pay, a “pioneering” mobile wallet powered by Saudi-based telecommunications and digital service provider Mobily, have announced a partnership “to launch MoneyGram’s leading international money… Read More