Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

We have breezed through September, and are now not only ready to take on a new month, but also a new quarter. Stay tuned to see what it will bring!

Digital banking

Chime selects Morgan Stanley to manage its 2025 IPO.

Qonto announces plans to expand to four new European markets: Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal.

Backbase unveils new Amsterdam headquarters, amplifying its culture of innovation.

Intrepid Credit Union selects Alkami to help launch new digital banking platform.

Chime’s fee-free overdraft tool, SpotMe, surpasses $30 billion in transactions.

Lending

Abrigo makes its Abrigo Small Business Lending commercially available.

Appli launches smart financial calculator designed to reshape how lenders and marketers interact with potential borrowers online. 

TreviPay and Allianz Trade partner to enhance B2B risk management and underwriting solutions.

Payments

Jack Henry and Victor team up to offer embedded payments management platform for regional and community financial institutions.

Viamericas partners with JMMB Money Transfer to expand its services into Jamaica.

Trinidad and Tobago to adopt India’s UPI.

Ocean Bank chooses NCR Atleos Allpoint Network.

Early Warning Services’ Paze solution is now available for more than 125 million credit and debit cards across the U.S.

Carry1st brings local payment solutions to music streaming with Audiomack partnership.

American Express and Boost Payment Solutions bring optimized virtual card payments to suppliers.

PayNearMe expands collaboration with PayPal to enhance its core processing capabilities.

Small business financial management

Airbase launches Touchless Accounts Payable.

Settle acquires inventory management and forecasting company Turbine; launches expanded procurement and inventory management suite.

Wealth management & investing

Alto Capital introduces new fund in partnership with SignalRank.


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Abrigo

Abrigo has been trusted by 2,500+ financial institutions for over 20 years to fight financial crime. The organization’s FinCrime suite includes market leading AML and fraud solutions.

Features

  • Offers AI/ML-powered check image analysis
  • Delivers nationwide consortium of check fraud data
  • Includes configurable rules engine

Who’s it for?

U.S. banks and credit unions.

Bancography

Branches consume sizable capital and noninterest expense costs. Bancography Plan maximizes those investments by identifying opportunities to deploy new branches and reconfigure or close current ones.

Features

  • Examine prospective merger candidates
  • Identify overlapping branches and forecast attrition
  • View full pro forma financial impact, before and after closures
  • Detect impacts on efficiency ratio and ROA

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions.

Diadem Capital

Diadem Capital is a deal flow engine and fundraising solution connecting private companies to private capital ranging across venture capital, private equity, venture debt, and non dilutive funding sources.

Features

Diadem Capital helps investors and lenders streamline due diligence, showcasing only the top prospects. Founders get one-to-one intros to otherwise inaccessible investors.

Who’s it for?

Diadem Capital is a two-sided marketplace catering to any private capital provider looking for deals and private company looking for capital. It is sector, stage, and geography agnostic.

iDENTIFY

iDENTIFY revolutionizes banking with a data validation tool that seamlessly integrates legacy and modern tech, transforming raw data into actionable insights for banks.

Features

  • Offers real-time data validation
  • Delivers seamless integration
  • Provides enhanced insights

Who’s it for?

Banks and credit unions.

Nest Bank & Efigence

Nest Bank, Poland’s first AI-enhanced bank, offers entrepreneurs and individuals innovative payment methods and personalized services. Efigence is a technology company that has been in operation since 1995.

Features

  • Expense tracking: Monitors and categorizes spending
  • AI-driven predictions: Forecasts future trends from users’ past actions
  • Placing instructions: Makes money transfers or issues virtual cards

Who’s it for?

Nest! has a diverse range of clients: Individuals and entrepreneurs who drive over 50% of Poland’s GDP.

Rapid Finance

Rapid Finance empowers enterprises to streamline their small business lending program. Lynx helps users take control of their data and unlock its potential.

Features

  • Offers comprehensive and holistic 360° views of customers
  • Advanced AI and analytics provides real time insights and patterns
  • Customizable rules engine allows users to automate decision making

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, neobanks, lending institutions, payment processors, insurance companies, lending and banking platforms, investment banks, wealth management firms, and more.

Winnow

Winnow AI leverages the power of LLP and NLP artificial intelligence. It allows customers to get lightning-fast answers to basic legal questions around topics that Winnow covers.

Features

  • Quickly answers basic legal questions
  • Generates responses based on Winnow’s 60,000+ attorney-reviewed legal requirements
  • Reduces time and effort typically spent on legal research

Who’s it for?

Banks, credit unions, fintechs, and lenders.