Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

This week’s Fintech Rundown features partnership and expansion news from a handful of Finovate alums, as well as some interesting fundings in the cryptocurrency and charitable giving space.


Wealth Management

Digital wealth and payments company Mogo expands its relationship with data cloud company Snowflake.

U.K.-based wealth app Chip launches its first Cash ISA.

WiseAlpha unveils new wealth management portal and white-label solution.

Digital Banking

Segura Bank International (SBI), an FI based in Puerto Rico, launches a new digital bank powered by Temenos’ core banking platform.

North Carolina-based Mechanics & Farmers Bank has gone live on the nCino Cloud Banking Platform.

Indian payment solutions provider PayU migrates its credit service LazyPay to Thought Machine’s core banking platform.

10x Banking announces expansion to Africa, starting in South Africa.

Core banking provider Tuum raises $26.8 million (EUR 25 million) in Series B financing.

HSBC U.K. introduces its Cash Pod to expand customer access to cash in areas without bank branches.

Mortgagetech

Phoebus launches its SaaS-based mortgage servicing platform.

Raymond James Bank deploys ICE Mortgage Technology’s Encompass lending solution.

Payments

Atlantic Money secures authorization to bring its money transfer service to the U.S., Canada, and Australia.

Overflow, a fintech that facilitates charitable giving, raises $20 million in new funding.

Worldpay completes its separation from FIS.

Airwallex forges multi-year partnership with McLaren Formula 1 team to support its treasury management and cross-border payout operations.

MENA-based payment orchestration solution provider PayTabs Group partners with Saudi Arabian payment-infrastructure-as-a-service fintech Nearpay.

Lending

Pagaya secures a five-year, $280 million credit facility led by BlackRock, JPMorgan, and others.

Allica Bank completes more than £2 billion in lending to businesses in the U.K.

Challenger banking

LendingClub moves closer to fulfilling the requirements to launch a new bank.

Open banking / Open finance

MX and Jack Henry announce an expanded agreement to enhance data sharing.

Trustly integrates MX data enhancement as part of its Open Banking product suite.

Norway-based open banking company Neonomics teams up with credit management firm Lowell.

Expense management / BFM

The Boston Celtics name Brex as its corporate card and spend management partner.

Expense management platform Fyle forges new integration with American Express.

Cryptocurrencies / DeFi

Oobit, a cryptocurrency payments app based in Singapore, raised $25 million in Series A funding.

Fnality to bring its blockchain-based payment system to the U.S. following its successful launch in the U.K.

Embedded finance

EY announces an alliance with embedded finance platform MoneyLion.

Identity Verification/Management

Entrust confirms that it is negotiating a potential acquisition of ID verification firm Onfido.


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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Explore the latest and most pertinent fintech news in our weekly digest. Stay informed as we continuously update this post with breaking news throughout the week. Check back for real-time updates on how the fintech landscape evolves this week.

Lending

Rapid Finance partners with LoanPro to provide Lending-as-a-Service to small businesses across the U.S.

Union Bank selects Baker Hill NextGen consumer loan origination and TruStage compliance doc prep.

Lendica and CSG Forte partner to deliver an embedded business credit solution to small and medium sized businesses in the U.S.

YouLend secures deal with J.P. Morgan to extend £4 billion in additional financing to SMEs.

SellersFi launches a financing solution with Amazon to provide Amazon sellers with access to credit lines of up to $10 million through Amazon Lending.

CarGurus partners with Chase to expand consumer financing options.

Investing

Alinea Invest brings in $3.4 million to leverage AI for virtual assistant.

Payments

TrueLayer teams up with Worldline to offer instant payouts, deposits, and signups via Worldline Payment Orchestration.

Adyen partners with SME financial operations platform BILL.

B2B blockchain-enabled payment platform Paystand integrates with cloud-based ERP business management system Acumatica.

Brite Payments partners with Swedish EV charging platform Northe EV.

Kantox launches Kantox In-House FX to centralize FX management for global businesses.

PayPal and Venmo launch suite of new product updates.

PXP Financial becomes a Google Pay payment service provider.

Kueski Pay is now available on Amazon Mexico.

REPAY integrates with Lexop to provide seamless payments for credit unions.

BentoBox introduces its new Marketing & Commerce platform for restaurants.

First Bank selects CorServ’s Comprehensive Credit Card program.

TIFIN Give acquires Giving Place to expand its philanthropy platform for wealth enterprises.

CardFlight’s SwipeSimple now allows merchants to create and send invoices from their mobile devices.

Shopify makes 100+ updates.

Loyalty/ Rewards

Bilt Rewards receives $200 million equity investment led by General Catalyst.

Fraud & Security

Financial crime and risk management solution provider Abrigo launches its new AI-powered Fraud Detection platform.

Silverfort raises $116 million for its identity security platform.

Emirates NBD partners with Silent Eight to automate alert disposition and enhance compliance efficiency.

Digital Banking

Lloyds to end mobile banking van service.

KlariVis unveils new product and features within its enterprise banking analytics platform.

i2c partners with The Bank of Missouri to empower fintechs to rapidly launch digital banking products.

BNY Mellon launches virtual account-based solutions.

Challenger Banking

KOHO advances into phase two of Canadian banking license.

DeFi

PayPal Ventures invests in digital asset startup Mesh.

Compliance

Fintech Galaxy launches Open Banking compliance services in the UAE.

Card Issuance/Management

First Bank teams up with CorServ to implement its new credit card program.

Taxation/Accounting Solutions

Intelligent automation platform Xceptor partners with KPMG UK to offer advanced tax solutions for financial services companies.

Identity Verification

Digital identity verification specialist IDVerse teams up with GeoComply.


Photo by Markus Winkler

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Explore the latest and most pertinent fintech news in our weekly digest. Stay informed as we continuously update this post with breaking news throughout the week. Check back for real-time updates on how the fintech landscape evolves this week.

Lending

Moody’s Analytics partners with Numerated to boost its lending capacity.

Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe to acquire EquiLend.

LoanDepot experiences cyberattack with 16.6 million customers’ personal information stolen.

Payments

Mastercard and The Clearing House announce an extension of their real-time payments partnership.

International payments and digital card platform BlinkSky secures $1.5 million in funding.

Bluefin announces global availability of PCI validated P2PE SmartPOS payment devices.

Thomson Reuters fronts $626 million cash bid for Pagero.

Viamericas partners with 24Xoro to expand real-time cross-border remittances to Mexico. 

Visa inks partnership with Pesaflow to offer customers in Kenya better access to digital payment solutions.

Torpago and Marqeta launch Sunwest Bank’s Visionary card program.

Chris Cordes is named Head of People at ClassWallet.

Members of Fiserv’s uChoose Rewards program can now use their card rewards balances towards fuel purchases at bp and Amoco stations.

Mondu raises additional €30 million in debt financing from German bank Vereinigte Volksbank Raiffeisenbank.

Regtech

Regtech solution provider AQMetrics partners with CMC Markets.

European digital banking provider Satchel taps regtech AMLYZE to enhance its compliance standards.

Identity management

Automated identity verification specialist Onfido launches its Compliance Suite.

Identity security platform Silverfort secures $116 million in Series D funding at a valuation “around $1 billion”.

ATB Ventures’ Oliu teams up with Flinks to deliver frictionless digital ID verification using bank connectivity.

SF Fire Credit Union deploys Illuma’s Illuma Shield voice verification technology in its call center.

Digital banking

Varo to offer free tax prep and filing.

Pinwheel adds to its direct deposit solution courtesy of a partnership with Jack Henry.

Grow Financial Federal Credit Union streamlines, enhances self-service banking through partnership with NCR Atleos.

CSI appoints Roxanne Martinez as Chief People Officer.

Jack Henry’s Banno unveils Banno Business, a business banking solution for community and regional financial institutions.

Challenger banking

Starling Bank unveils new brand platform, The Bank Built for You.

Wealth management

Personal finance hub Plannix partners with open banking solution provider Salt Edge.

Objectway acquires digital wealth solutions provider Nest Wealth.

TIFIN announces the spin-off of TIFIN AG, an AI platform to help wealth enterprises drive net new assets.

Digital investment and wealth planning firm Marstone raises an $8 million Series B financing round led by Mendon Venture Partners and South Rose Capital.

Insurtech

Ansel, the insurtech previously known as Brella, raises $20 million in funding in a round led by Portage.

Cybersecurity/Fraud Prevention

Fraud prevention and AML platform SEON introduces new Chief Technology Officer Björn Heckel.

Fenergo appoints Andrew Brandman as Chief Customer Officer.


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