Tagged: mobile apps

October 3, 2021 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

KBC has teamed up with Personetics, the international provider of financial-data-driven personalization and customer engagement solutions for financial services. As mentioned in the announcement, the firms will be working cooperatively to offer multi-lingual, proactive, data-driven solutions “to increase customer engagement on KBC’s mobile application to… Read More

September 7, 2021 @ 10:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ICICI Bank, a privately-owned Indian development finance institution with its registered office in Vadodara, Gujarat, and corporate office in Mumbai, Maharashtra, reveals that it has enabled its savings account clients to pay and manage credit cards bills at any bank by using the Bank’s mobile… Read More

August 19, 2021 @ 11:10 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MX, the financial data platform and recognized leader in “modern connectivity,” reveals that it has teamed up with BECU, which is one of the largest credit unions in the US. Through the partnership, the companies aim to offer a mobile app feature, called Quick Save,… Read More

August 17, 2021 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

iSpent19 is pleased to confirm the rollout of its money management app that’s meant to offer UK users with a new way of monitoring and managing their funds via transaction personalization and sharing. …and WE ARE OFFICIALLY LIVE! 🥳 It is with great pleasure to… Read More

July 16, 2021 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Spendwisor, a US-headquartered mobile payment app with business offices and service locations in Qatar and the United Kingdom, has confirmed a QAR 190 million ($50 million) investment commitment from GEM Global Yield, a $3.4 billion Luxembourg-headquartered private alternative investment group. The company plans to use… Read More

July 10, 2021 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Toronto-headquartered Clearco — which was previously doing business as Clearbanc — has secured $215 million in growth equity through a round that was recently led by the SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The firm is now focused on its global expansion efforts. Established in 2015, the… Read More

November 28, 2020 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The customers of mobile savings app Beam had been complaining that they were able to deposit funds but couldn’t get their money back out. The Fintech also allegedly failed to live up to promised high interest rates. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC ) alleges that… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 9:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Stash, a US-based company that offers micro-investment options through a mobile app, claims that during the recent market volatility and economic instability (due to COVID-19), the Fintech service provider has continued to offer personalized advice and innovative tech to help guide +5M… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase is planning to add Celo (CELO), the native digital currency of an open-source platform that aims to make financial tools accessible to anyone with a smartphone or mobile device. Celo will only be offered on Coinbase Pro, which is the… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), the world’s largest cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform in terms of volume, has introduced support for mobile trading. The Seychelles-registered and Hong Kong operated exchange noted: “As part of our promise to our users to keep improving our offering, we’re delighted… Read More

August 31, 2020 @ 5:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global digital banking platform market is on track to reach $9 billion by 2026. It’s currently expanding at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 16% during the forecast period, according to a new report. According to a release that summarizes the findings of… Read More

August 29, 2020 @ 11:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Indonesia has a population of around 270 million residents, and most of these people are underbanked or financially underserved. Businesses in the fast-growing economy also don’t yet have access to modern financial services, like the kind we’d typically find in many of the developed Western… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 4:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), a non-profit entity established in 2014 to support the development and growth of the open-source Stellar (XLM) protocol, recently announced that Samsung added support for the XLM digital currency to its Samsung Blockchain Keystore. XLM (or “lumens”) is now available… Read More

July 17, 2020 @ 11:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OCBC Bank (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., Ltd) (SGX: O39), a multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in OCBC Centre, Singapore, has revealed that its customers in Singapore will now be able to use their SingPass to access its digital banking platform. The digital banking services… Read More

June 25, 2020 @ 11:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ezra, a project that leverages its partner network to support global aid initiatives through Fintech and other emerging technologies, is planning to work cooperatively with mobile operators, NGOs, and various foundations and organizations in order to enable greater financial inclusion through digital platforms. Allan Green,… Read More

June 13, 2020 @ 10:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based GBCI Ventures, a venture capital and private equity firm, has made a strategic $11 million investment in Fintech startup Fincy. The company is also in the process of finalizing external funding. The Fincy team describes their platform as a multi-purpose solution providing digital and… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Private identity solution provider, Incognia, has introduced a location-based behavioral biometrics software product that aims to reduce or eliminate the growing rates of mobile fraud. According to a press release shared with CI, Incognia’s anti-fraud software development kit (SDK) and APIs aim to improve standard… Read More

May 27, 2020 @ 10:29 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Siebert, a national broker-dealer and provider of financial services, announced on Wednesday it has appointed InvestCloud to design and implement its complete digital transformation. Siebert reported that through the partnership it will implement InvestCloud’s full suite of applications, ranging from intuitive client-facing portals and mobile… Read More

January 23, 2020 @ 10:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based AllocateRite, a Fintech and data science firm that offers exchange-traded-funds (ETF)-based dynamic asset allocation options and risk analytics services, recently confirmed that its portfolio management and asset allocation strategies will be available via iOS and Android mobile devices. AllocateRite’s mobile app will be… Read More

March 13, 2019 @ 1:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Abra, a U.S.-based all-in-one cryptocurrency wallet and exchange, announced on Wednesday it has expanded support for the Ethereum platform by adding native integration of Ethereum’s currency, ether (ETH). Abra users may now deposit, invest, and withdraw ether directly from the Abra app. Abra reported that… Read More