Tagged: us

October 31, 2023 @ 9:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFI), a member-centric, one-stop shop for digital financial services that helps members borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money, today announced an agreement to place a $375 million personal loan securitization exclusively with funds and accounts managed by BlackRock (NYSE:… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 9:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LendingClub Corporation (NYSE: LC), the parent company of LendingClub Bank, America’s leading digital marketplace bank, released key findings from the 27th edition of the Reality Check: Paycheck-To-Paycheck research series. The Savings Deep Dive Edition “examines consumers’ ability to preserve their savings in the current economic… Read More

October 31, 2023 @ 6:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small business owners are more optimistic about the future than they were a year ago, with slightly more than half (54%) “saying their business is financially healthy, but inflation is still having a negative effect.” According to the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Small Business Banking… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 5:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

eToro, the trading and investing platform, is announcing the launch of free ETF courses on the eToro Academy, made possible through a new partnership with iShares by BlackRock, the largest ETF provider in the world. With a global line-up of 1300+ ETFs and $3.12 trillion… Read More

October 30, 2023 @ 1:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Netcapital Inc. (Nasdaq: NCPL), a digital private capital markets ecosystem, today announced the successful completion of a capital offering by EarthGrid Public Benefit Corporation, a plasma boring technology and infrastructure development company. EarthGrid raised approximately $3.3 million on Netcapital’s funding portal “as part of a… Read More

October 29, 2023 @ 5:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CenterPoint, the active trading division of New York-based independent prime broker Clear Street LLC, announced that its products and services are available in Canada through Clear Street Canada Inc. CenterPoint’s products, services, and partnerships “include advanced routing and execution, real-time access to market data feeds,… Read More

October 29, 2023 @ 3:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost no one is “happy” with the nation’s financial system— “only 9% of Americans are satisfied with it, and only 22% think it’s better than any other country’s,” according to an update shared by Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN). But young people are “especially disillusioned by it,” the… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 4:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A significant 68% of U.S. adults feel they have suffered from, or are currently suffering from, financial trauma according to new research released today by Experian. The research sheds light on the prevalence of negative feelings and angst “related to financial matters, with approximately 65%… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Pathward, N.A., a U.S.-based financial empowerment company driven by its purpose to power financial inclusion, announced the expansion of its partnership with TabaPay, a money movement platform for merchants and leading fintech brands. The firms first announced partnering in 2020 and “the deeper alliance provides… Read More

October 28, 2023 @ 9:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The New York Stock Exchange, part of Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE), a global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, announced NYSE LaunchPad. This program is designed to help today’s entrepreneurs “leverage enterprise technology expertise through a secure, cloud-based platform.” As part of the… Read More

October 27, 2023 @ 10:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoverForce, the insurance platform bringing streamlined comparisons and one-click buying to commercial insurance, emerged from stealth mode, “unveiling its comprehensive suite of products made specifically for agency networks, wholesalers, and software companies.” The company’s infrastructure and easy-to-integrate API aim “to provide digital access and one-stop… Read More

October 26, 2023 @ 2:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

U.S. Bank, an organization supporting payment services, announces the launch of Avvance, an embedded, multi-channel point of sale lending solution. Avvance empowers businesses “with the ability to offer consumer financing during checkout with a quick application and instant decisioning.” Payment methods are constantly evolving and… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 11:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

North America is the largest cryptocurrency market, according to Chainalysis. Chainalysis reveals hat the region has “an estimated $1.2 trillion in value received on-chain between July 2022 and June 2023.” That total now “represents 24.4% of global transaction activity during the time period studied.” Most… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 10:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Creditly Corp., dba Credit Genie, a digital personal finance platform that has served more than one million Americans, announced the successful completion of an additional funding round, securing $10 million in capital, “bringing its total financing to $21 million.” The funding via the investment round… Read More

October 24, 2023 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Greenlight Financial Technology, Inc., the fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids, announced that it has formed a Credit Union Service Organization, Greenlight Financial CUSO, in order “to better serve and support credit unions, their members, and families nationwide.” Through… Read More

October 23, 2023 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Even as the initial hype around AI-specific stocks cools off, investors are still buying into the technology as a market-driver. New data from the latest Retail Investor Beat survey from trading and investment platform eToro finds “that one in four (26%) American investors consider digital… Read More

October 22, 2023 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) is expanding the global presence of its Front Office Solutions (FOS) business with the addition of new clients in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. Globally, FOS has nearly $500B in assets under administration as of July 2023. The… Read More

October 18, 2023 @ 1:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform enabling some of the world’s most innovative embedded finance solutions, today announced a new partnership with Scalapay, Southern Europe’s BNPL provider, “to leverage Marqeta’s platform to issue cards both online and in-store.” Marqeta and Scalapay have… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US startup ecosystem witnessed a considerable decline in venture capital (VC) funding activity “during the first three quarters (Q1-Q3) of 2023.” A total of 5,448 VC funding deals “with disclosed value worth of $89.3 billion were announced in the US during the period.” This… Read More

October 17, 2023 @ 9:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America Institute (NYSE: BAC), the internal think tank that uses Bank of America’s proprietary data from their 68 million consumer accounts to glean insights into the US economy, has released a report. The update looks into how consumers are faring given the current conditions…. Read More