Tagged: fintech

October 6, 2017 @ 12:01 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a software specialist for banking and finance, announces a strategic partnership with MuleSoft, a provider of the platform for building application networks. According to Temenos, by creating a channel for banks to capitalize on the modern technology in Temenos’ Core Banking platform, MuleSoft enables banks to… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:40 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

UK-based fintech firm Finastra announced on Thursday it has teamed up with R3 and seven banks to create an online marketplace to drive transparency and efficiency in the syndicated loan market. Finastra reported that R3’s distributed ledger technology (DLT) based platform, Fusion LenderComm exposes real-time credit agreement, accrual… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 2:04 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

London fintech startup Curve has formed a partnership with accounting software, Xero. This news comes just a few months after Curve secured $10 million during its Series A funding round. According to TechCrunch, the companies are looking to remove much of the friction involved in… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 12:32 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canadian fintech firm MOBI724 Global Solutions Inc. announced this week it has entered into an agreement with Visa, a global payments technology company, to provide Visa clients a suite of integrated Loyalty Solutions, including MOBI724’s Card-Linked Offers & Rewards, Digital Marketing and Business Intelligence Solutions… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 11:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Startup consulting firm Quesnay announced on Monday the launch of its inaugural Female Founders in Tech competition, which aims to address the gap in female leaders by recognizing and supporting female-founded startups that impact the financial services and/or insurance technology industries. Jennifer Byrne, president of Quesnay,… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 11:07 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Tinubu Square, a France-based provider of trade credit risk management solutions, announced on Monday it has secured a €53million investment from Long Arc Capital and Bpifrance to accelerate the development of its technology solutions for credit and surety insurers, trade finance banks and export credit agencies. With this investment, U.S.-based investment firm Long Arc Capital takes a majority stake… Read More

September 30, 2017 @ 10:00 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Earlier this week, BBVA named DOV-E the winner of its Open Talent FinTech for Companies Challenge. As previously reported, the company revealed that it launched the “fintech games” in order to find the most innovative startups across the world to provide opportunities for. Based in Israel, DOV-E provides… Read More

September 29, 2017 @ 3:30 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, UK-based fintech startup and read-only, anonymised Twitter client that blocks all broadcasting (Tweeting) and messaging, Market EarlyBird, announced it has formed a partnership with cloud-based workflow and collaboration platform, Symphony, for its new program EarlyBird for Symphony. According to Market EarlyBird, EarlyBird for Symphony… Read More

September 28, 2017 @ 9:56 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Canada fintech firm and direct online access to securely vaulted and insured precious metals, Goldmoney, Inc. (TSX: XAU), announced on Thursday the addition of vaulted Bitcoin and Ethereum as secure and fully-reserved offline investable assets within the Goldmoney Holding. This will allow qualified clients to buy, sell, and exchange cryptocurrencies… Read More

September 27, 2017 @ 9:58 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, Lend360 announced a panel of experts will discuss what’s “Coming Down the Pipeline: Innovative Products and Contributing Factors Affecting the Future of Small Business Finance” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 11th during a session at the Lend360 conference in Dallas. According to Lend360, the session, which… Read More

September 26, 2017 @ 2:33 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco-based fintech Ripple has announced the opening of its new Singapore office. This news comes just one month after the company opened its India office. While sharing details about the new office, Dilip Rao, managing director for Ripple APAC, reportedly stated: “Singapore is leading the… Read More

September 25, 2017 @ 3:21 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Stockholm-based fintech Sharpfin is set to close its equity crowdfunding round on Invesdor with more than 1.9 million SEK. As previously reported, Sharpfin sees a finance industry that is riddled with high maintenance legacy IT systems that incredibly out of date. Sharpfin also wants to be the… Read More

September 22, 2017 @ 10:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Fintech Australia announced its upcoming Intersekt Fintech Festival is set to be a world-first gender equality target and is part of an ongoing campaign to drive increased levels of email participation in the country’s startup sector. The festival is set to be held in Melbourne from… Read More

September 19, 2017 @ 11:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Dublin-based fintech startup Alpha Payments Cloud announced it has rebranded to Alpha Fintech. According to the company, the rebranding aims to sow Alpha’s positioning as an end-to-end middleware that connects the merchant buyer and vendor supplier across the entire payments, risk and commerce spectrum… Read More

September 18, 2017 @ 11:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

dv01, the data management, reporting, and analytics platform that offers institutional investors transparency and insight into lending markets, announced on Monday it is launching a cashflow engine for securitizations, with full waterfall and collateral model support. dv01’s cashflow engine is available for a library of… Read More

September 15, 2017 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

The Detroit Fintech Association, an organization created within financial media company Benzinga, announced on Thursday it is now planning to make Detroit as a hub for fintech innovation and to grow the existing culture of technology-driven financial services through a campaign raising awareness of the incredible financial technology hub that… Read More

September 13, 2017 @ 9:59 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

San Francisco fintech startup YayPay announced on Wednesday it secured $5.3 million in funding to further its drive to bring automation to the back-office finance operations of mid-sized enterprises. The company’s latest funding round was led by QED Investors along with co-investors Birchmere and Fifth Third Capital, the direct… Read More

September 12, 2017 @ 12:16 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Tuesday, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and First Data announced applications are now open for the Winter 2017 Class of the accelerator program, Commerce.Innovated. This news comes just one month after the companies announced the four selected startups for the Fall 2017 program. Commerce.Innovated. is described as… Read More

September 11, 2017 @ 1:12 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Monday, real estate crowdfunding platform Small Change announced the Pittsburgh Technology Council has named it a Tech 50 Awards Finalist in the “Start-Up of the Year” Category. Small Change revealed that the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s annual Tech 50 Awards recognize southwestern Pennsylvania’s most successful, innovative, and… Read More

September 5, 2017 @ 1:05 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

The fourth batch of companies for the NYC’s Starta Accelerator includes 13 technological startups that will participate in the acceleration program and receive seed investment, bringing the gap between Eastern European and American tech. The program will start in mid-September and last for 3.5 months…. Read More