Tagged: fintech

December 30, 2025 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Upvest has noted that it entered 2025 on a high, fresh off the announcement of their €100 million Series C last December and having reportedly reached a milestone 20 million orders processed during 2024. Fast forward to December 2025 and Upvest has claimed that they… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Octane Lending Inc., the fintech enabling the buying experience, is teaming up with Camping World Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CWH), which is America’s Recreation Dealer, to launch a financing solution under the Good Sam Powered by Octane brand. This Captive-as-a-Service agreement enables Camping World dealers to… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Volante Technologies, the enabler of Payments as a Service, announced it has upgraded its clients to meet the latest SEPA Instant Payments Regulation (IPR) and SWIFT SRG 2025 mandate, which came into effect October 9th and November 22nd, 2025, respectively. This announcement follows the major… Read More

December 24, 2025 @ 9:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. announced the completion of a $35 million strategic Series A investment round. The funding will now aim to accelerate the growth of AX, the financial industry’s centralized exchange for perpetual futures on traditional asset classes, “launched by the company last month.”… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has designated $46.2 million from its Civil Penalty Fund in order to reimburse individuals impacted by the failure of Synapse Financial Technologies. This allocation, approved on November 28, 2025, reportedly addresses losses from frozen accounts following Synapse‘s bankruptcy filing… Read More

December 22, 2025 @ 12:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has partnered with audax Financial Technology, a digital banking technology solutions provider supported by Standard Chartered, to transform how banks in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East scale “digital offerings and modernise their core banking services.” Research… Read More

December 20, 2025 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aspire, the Singapore-headquartered global fintech, announced it has secured its Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, laying the foundation for its Dutch operations, and entry into the European Union. The approval marks a key milestone in Aspire’s expansion, unlocking pan-European coverage for clients and “enabling the… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech Pulse report has provided a data-driven look at Latvia’s financial technology sector. The research report offers insights from Riga Technical University’s Riga Business School Fintech Observatory, covering sector — wide turnover, taxes, profit, as well as overall employment trends. According to the research… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian fintech ecosystem has remained broadly stable during this year, according to an extensive update from KPMG, which also noted that with 801 independent Australian owned fintech companies, “marking a slight 2% decline year-on-year change from 2024.” The research report from KPMG also mentioned… Read More

December 14, 2025 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has recently introduced the Agentic Commerce Suite, a solution to help businesses get ready to sell via multiple AI agents. More than likely, the future of digital commerce will involve the assistance of various artificial intelligence powered tools to… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Setu by Pine Labs has recently announced the launch of India’s agentic bill-payments experience, designed to address key challenges in bill payments: the fear of incorrect charges and the burden of missing important due dates. Although actually paying a bill takes minutes, keeping track of… Read More

December 4, 2025 @ 7:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Aeropay, a U.S. pay-by-bank provider, announced the launch of Request for Payment (RfP) in partnership with Cross River Bank, a tech infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions. This offering expands on the two companies’ current instant payment offerings and “enables U.S. businesses to accept… Read More

December 3, 2025 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, businesses on Stripe reportedly processed over 578 million transactions with a total payment volume of over $40 billion. It was said to be the largest 4-day period in Stripe’s history, capped by a solid Cyber Monday that saw more… Read More

November 28, 2025 @ 4:58 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FinFan, a Vietnam-based fintech company specializing in comprehensive cross-border remittance technology solutions, and Thunes, the so-called Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a collab that is said to be aimed at advancing the development of… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has recently announced that it has enabled PayPal merchants to become discoverable within Perplexity, giving consumers the option to checkout in chat. As of now, U.S. users exploring Perplexity’s shopping experience can transition from research to purchase, leveraging PayPal’s identity verification, Purchase… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Analytics software provider FICO (NYSE: FICO) announced a partnership with Plaid, a financial data network, in order to enable the so-called next generation of the cash flow UltraFICO Score. This solution will combine the FICO Score, used by US lenders, with real time cash-flow data… Read More

November 22, 2025 @ 4:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Episode Six, a global technology provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure, has recently announced ​​its new​​​ ​partnership with​ Fintech ​wealth app​ Sharesies, in order to​ ​support its​ newly launched debit card. ​​The payment card is said to be the first in New Zealand… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fasanara Capital has reportedly increased its credit commitment to Addi, a commerce and financial platform in Colombia, by $11 million as part of a $71 million upsizing of Addi’s credit facilities along with Goldman Sachs. This commitment enhances Addi’s capital position and supports its goal… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 1:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finastra, a global firm focused on financial services software, announced enhancements to its LaserPro document management solution, integrating with two different Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filing service providers, CSC Lien PerfectSM for Lenders and Wolters Kluwer’s iLien UCC platform. These latest integrations are reportedly intended… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 11:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global fintech currently claiming more than 65 million global customers and various business customers, has announced a global payments partnership with one of the world’s online travel platforms, Booking.com. Expanding Revolut’s travel offering for customers, Booking.com customers can now pay via Revolut Pay,… Read More