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Buckzy Payments and FinXP Enable Cross-Border Payments for Businesses

Buckzy Payments and FinXP Enable Cross-Border Payments for Businesses
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Buckzy Payments
  • Cross-border payments and embedded finance platform Buckzy Payments announced a strategic partnership with European payment infrastructure provider FinXP.
  • The partnership will enable Buckzy clients to access direct SEPA payment capabilities from FinXP. FinXP customers will benefit from Buckzy’s global banking network and stablecoin infrastructure.
  • Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Buckzy Payments made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2019 in New York.

Real-time cross-border payment network Buckzy Payments has forged a strategic partnership with European payments and banking service provider FinXP. The partnership is designed to enable businesses operating internationally to access European and international payment capabilities by combining FinXP’s regulated European infrastructure—including euro accounts and SEPA payment capabilities—with Buckzy’s real-time international payment network and stablecoin infrastructure.

The partnership will enable eligible Buckzy clients to access FinXP’s direct SEPA payment capabilities, while FinXP’s clients will benefit from Buckzy’s international banking network and stablecoin infrastructure. This bolsters FinXP’s existing cross-border payment capabilities and extends its reach across additional markets and currencies.

“Europe is a critical market for our clients and an important part of any global payments proposition,” Buckzy Payments CEO Abdul Naushad said. “FinXP brings direct SEPA access, regulatory expertise, and a strong understanding of complex payment requirements. This partnership enhances Buckzy’s ability to provide clients with an integrated route into European accounts and SEPA Instant Payments, while extending the international reach available to FinXP clients.”

The partnership will help customers of both companies manage European accounts, collections, and payouts; extend their reach to new international markets and currencies; reduce reliance on disconnected providers; and enhance payment visibility, reconciliation, and operational efficiency. The two fintechs will initially connect European account and SEPA capabilities with Buckzy’s international cross-border payments infrastructure. Buckzy and FinXP also announced plans to explore potential opportunities in automated account provisioning, embedded payment services, multi-currency payment flows, and API-led financial infrastructure.

“Buckzy and FinXP share a common objective: to make international payments simpler, faster, and more accessible for businesses,” FinXP Co-founder and CEO Jens Podewski said. “Buckzy brings strong global payment connectivity and modern API infrastructure, while FinXP contributes regulated European account and payment capabilities. By combining these strengths, we can offer clients a more complete solution across Europe and international markets.”

FinXP offers IBAN accounts, card issuing, SEPA Direct Debit, clearing services, payout solutions, and an omnichannel payment gateway to enable its customers to make and receive payments in whatever form they prefer. A licensed Electronic Money Institution authorized by the Malta Financial Services Authority and a specialist in the B2B payments space, the company began 2026 with news of its partnership with B2B financial services platform ONE.io. FinXP helped the London-based firm build a new Euro account solution as well as launch its USD payment platform. Founded in 2014, FinXP processes €4 billion annually.

Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Buckzy Payments made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2019. At the conference, the company demonstrated its money transfer ecosystem that enables users to send and receive money in real time. The solution supports bank-to-bank transfers, international bill payments, digital wallet transfers, top-ups, and more. Serving financial institutions, fintechs, e-commerce marketplaces, and multinational companies, Buckzy is a registered money services business with FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada). The company was founded in 2018.

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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Buckzy Payments, Expensify, Fintech Rundown, FIS, Salt Edge

Congratulations to Spain for winning on the global stage of the World Cup yesterday! The country won against Argentina a final match with a score of one to zero after a nearly six-week long event. Today we turn to examine who is winning in fintech. Here’s a look at the top news headlines for this week. We’ll continue to add more announcements as the week progresses.

AI in banking

FIS partners with Anthropic to use Mythos 5 through Project Glasswing to bolster its security.

Databricks announces strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation.

Identity and verification

Know Your Customer (KYC) orchestration platform Fourthline announces plans to merge with identity verification platform Veridas.

Payments

Payfinia and Member Access Processing (MAP) team up to deliver embedded payments for credit unions.

Airwallex enables Wero payments for merchants throughout Europe.

Domopay selects Salt Edge to provide open banking capabilities for rent collection.

European paytech Teya upgrades its offering with billpay and cashback cards.

Buckzy Payments and FinXP forge strategic partnership to enable cross-border payments for merchants in Europe.

DeFi

Crypto.com announces $400 million strategic investment from Citadel Securities.

Digital asset platform MoonPay acquires Glide for its deposit and payments technology.

Stablecoin infrastructure firm Cyclops secures $20 million in Series A funding in a round led by Nava Ventures.

Wealth management

Investment platform Stratiphy opens its public funding round.

Lending

Financial marketplace ClearScore partners with open-banking-powered lender Abound for its automated debt consolidated technology, Clearer.

Digital banking

Banking platform Lumin Digital raises more than $70 million in new capital from its own clients.

Business financial management

Spend management software company Expensify unveils ints new corporate Expensify Card for users in the UK and select countries in the EU.

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Canadian Cross Border Payments Innovator Buckzy Raises Series A Funding

Canadian Cross Border Payments Innovator Buckzy Raises Series A Funding
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Buckzy Payments, Daily news, Funding
  • Canadian real-time cross border payments company Buckzy has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding.
  • The investment was led by Mistral Venture Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures, and featured participation from new investors Luge Capital and Blue 9 Capital, as well as existing investor Revel Partners.
  • Buckzy made its Finovate debut in 2019 at FinovateFall.

In a round led by Mistral Venture Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures, Canada-based real-time, cross border payments company Buckzy has secured $14.5 million in Series A funding. Valuation information was not immediately available. This week’s investment takes the company’s total equity funding to more than $23 million, according to Crunchbase.

“This round of financing is a validation of Buckzy’s vision to create an intelligent and automated international payment system,” Buckzy CEO Abdul Naushad said. “We’re on a mission to build the plumbing for real-time money movement globally, the same way high-speed internet fundamentally shifted the communications industry.”

New investors Luge Capital and Blue 9 Capital, and existing investor Revel Partners, also participated in the round. Luge Capital General Partner Karim Gillani will join Buckzy’s board as an advisor.

Buckzy offers real-time, cross border payments and Banking-as-a-Service capabilities via an embedded finance platform. The platform offers multi-currency bank accounts, local settlement accounts, and real-time FX quoting and booking. A licensed money transfer company, Buckzy has signed up more than 140 bank, neobank, and fintech customers since going live with its platform in 2020.

Calling the cross-border payments market a $150 trillion market globally – and one that is still underserved – Mistral Ventures Partners Managing Director Code Cubitt praised Buckzy for its ability to deliver “a much better customer experience, more automation, and lightning-fast payments.” Cubitt said the company had “the right blend of experience, expertise, and insight to build the next generation of cross border payments.”

Buckzy’s funding news comes at the same time that the company announced the appointment of Seema Rai Nair as VP of Customer Success and Network Expansion. Nair will be responsible for growing the company’s partnership network of banks, fintechs, ecommerce platforms, and other financial service providers.

“Demand for real-time and near real-time international payment services is rising around the world, and companies are increasingly turning to alternative providers such as Buckzy to address their need for fast, secure international payments,” Nair said in a statement.

Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Buckzy was founded in 2018. The company made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall in New York the following year.

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German Neobroker Trade Republic Earns $5 Billion Valuation; Binance Labs Secures $500 Million to Fund Web3

German Neobroker Trade Republic Earns $5 Billion Valuation; Binance Labs Secures $500 Million to Fund Web3
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Buckzy Payments, Efigence, Finovate Global, Nubank, Temenos

European investment and savings platform Trade Republic has topped up its 2021 Series C round with an investment of €250 million led by the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan. The funding gives Trade Republic a valuation of more than $5 billion (€5 billion), and will enable the company to “double down” on its product.

“We are amid a transformation of pension systems in Europe,” Trade Republic co-founder Christian Hecker said. “The financing will help us to invest strongly into product innovation to empower millions of Europeans to put their money to work. Improving our valuation in the light of the current market environment is the true testament to our progress in the last twelve months and the large potential ahead.”

Trade Republic enables its more than one million European customers to invest in equities, cryptocurrencies, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as well as fractional savings plans. With more than six billion euros in assets under management, Trade Republic offers investors the ability to invest in 9,000 stocks and ETFs; take advantage of 4,000 stock and ETF savings plans; and participate in more than 50 cryptocurrency-based savings plans. Trade Republic also provides access to 300,000 derivatives including warrant bonds, “knock-out products”, and factor certificates.

Trade Republic was founded in 2015 by Christian Hecker, Thomas Pischke, and Marco Cancellieri. The company is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

Binance Labs, the venture capital arm of international cryptocurrency exchange Binance, has raised $500 million to invest in companies that are “building Web3”. The capital comes from VC firms DST Global and Breyer Capital, and featured participation from a variety of family offices and corporations which remained unnamed.

The new fund arrives at a time when cryptocurrrency prices are in a significant retreat. Binance Labs has suggested that the current weakness in digital asset prices might provide an opportunity for investment in companies involved in everything from NFTs to blockchain infrastructure. “The goal of the newly closed investment fund is to discover and support projects and founders with the potential to build and to lead Web3 across DeFi, NFTs, gaming, Metaverse, social, and more,” Binance Labs Executive Director of Investments and M&A Ken Li said.

The new fund will invest in projects in a wide range of development stages including incubation, early-stage venture, and late-stage growth. Binance Labs has invested in and incubated more than 100 projects from more than 25 countries. The firm’s portfolio includes companies such as blockchain research firm Dune Analytics, as well as blockchain networks such as Elrond, The Sandbox, and Polygon.

In other international fintech news, Canadian Finovate alum Buckzy Payments announced an expansion to the Netherlands and its plan to pursue an EMI (Electronic Money Institution) license. The company, which demoed its real-time cross border P2P payments solution at FinovateFall 2019, opened a new office in Amsterdam this summer. The firm also noted that an EMI license will enable members of the Buckzy Payment Network to leverage virtual account services and real-time payments across the Single Euro Payment Area (SEPA) of 36 European countries and territories.

“Europe is a mature, technologically advanced market that is also a hotbed of fintech innovation thanks to its adoption of open API technology,” Buckzy President and CEO Abdul Naushad said. “(This) has opened up the financial sector and created opportunities for innovative new companies to provide new products and services. More and more of our customers around the world want to send and receive real-time payments to and from Europe, and we are enabling them to do so.”

Here is our look at fintech innovation around the world.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Asia-Pacific

Sub-Saharan Africa

Central and Eastern Europe

Middle East and Northern Africa

Central and Southern Asia

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Cross Border Payments Infrastructure Innovator Buckzy Payments Inks Partnership with M2P Solutions

Cross Border Payments Infrastructure Innovator Buckzy Payments Inks Partnership with M2P Solutions
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Alumni profile, Buckzy Payments, Daily news

Asia’s largest API infrastructure company, M2P Solutions, will leverage the real-time, cross border payments ecosystem developed by Buckzy Payments to enable its customers to offer better payment services in many of the more underserved corridors in the MENA region. Clients such as banks, exchanges, and money transfer operators (MTOs) will be the partnership’s chief beneficiaries; targeted markets include the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman.

“We are clearly aligned in our mission to improve global banking and transaction settlement services that unlock the borderless banking and global economic opportunities for all,” Managing Director for Buckzy in EMEA Adrian Brown said. “Combining Buckzy’s network with M2P’s API platform delivers an outstanding customer experience and competitive advantage for customers.”

Buckzy’s network enables real-time, cross border payments around the world. The company’s technology gives both businesses and financial institutions the ability to expand their offerings via white-label solutions on a secure platform. Moreover, Buckzy’s ecosystem also empowers these organizations to make collections and receive payments in local currency. Headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and founded in 2018, Buckzy demonstrated its solution one year later at FinovateFall. At the conference, Buckzy Global CMO Lindsay Mulligan showed how the company’s technology powered instant, on-the-go digital wallet transfers and top ups, as well as multi-currency transfers and instant email money transfers with just a few clicks and without transaction fees.

Business Head of M2P Solutions for MENA, Vaanathi Mohanakrishnan, underscored the importance to the company of opening up these regional opportunities. “A lot of M2P’s strategy hinges on enabling fintechs to deliver solutions leveraging our infrastructure and partner network,” Mohanakrishnan explained. “We are excited to be partnering with Buckzy to deliver frictionless cross border payment experiences to customers in the MENA region.”

Delivering real-time cross-border payments to 47 countries, Buckzy Payments was recently named to the CIX Top 20 Early roster of innovative Canadian technology companies. With offices in the U.S. and India, as well as Toronto, the company has raised $3 million in funding from investors including Dash40 Ventures, Mistral Venture Partners, and Revel Partners.

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FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Buckzy Payments

FinovateFall Sneak Peek: Buckzy Payments
By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Buckzy Payments, FinovateFall 2019, FinovateFall 2019 Sneak Peek

A look at the companies demoing live at FinovateFall on September 23 through 25, 2019 in New York City. Register today and save your spot.

Buckzy is an enabler of banks and financial institutions. The company is fundamentally transforming the way people move money around the world with its real-time cross-border payments ecosystem.

Features

  • Real-time cross-border payments ecosystem
  • Availability 365 days a year
  • 24/7 access even inside of traditional banking hours and holidays

Why it’s great
Cross-border P2P payments, bill payments, global trade payments, and international student payments can now be settled in real-time with 365 days, 24×7 accessibility to funds.

Presenter

Lindsay Mulligan, Global Chief Marketing Officer
Mulligan is a global marketer, innovator, and digital martech strategist with over 12 years of experience in marketing multinational brands on a global scale for both B2B and B2C initiatives.
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Finovate Alumni News

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Buckzy Payments, CheckAlt, iProov, Meniga, MX, myGini, Mylife, NICE Systems, Ninth Wave, NYMBUS, Onfido, Revolut, Scalable Capital, Tradeshift, UBDI, Zogo Finance

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Around the web

  • Nice Actimize introduces surveillance system, SURVEIL-X.
  • Scalable Capital teams up with Raisin to offer its customers the ability to invest in fixed-term deposits at partner Baader Bank.
  • Standard and Premium customers of Revolut in 26 markets now have access to stock trading via the platform.
  • Financial Times highlights Meniga as a fintech to watch. Come see Meniga’s live demo at FinovateFall next week in New York!
  • NYMBUS appoints Dr. Joerg Richter as its new Chief Operating Officer, Platforms. NYMBUS will showcase its newest technology at FinovateFall next week in New York!
  • Tradeshift to help Spendency app users leverage their transaction data.
  • iProov releases HTML v.2 Beta on GitHub to help users secure user identity in HTML5.
  • Onfido earns the top spot in FinTechCity’s 2019 Fintech 50 roster.

This post will be updated throughout the day as news and developments emerge. You can also follow all the alumni news headlines on the Finovate Twitter account.

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