Embedded Finance Platform FutureBank Teams Up with Digital ID Verification Firm IDVerse

Digital ID verification company IDVerse will help embedded finance platform FutureBank enhance its onboarding processes with fast and secure digital identity verification (IDV). The new partnership will let FutureBank customers to use IDVerse software and also allow IDVerse customers looking for a middleware platform to connect their API credentials take advantage of FutureBank’s technology. An Read more…

Credit-Assessment-as-a-Service Innovator Uplinq Forges Collaboration with Visa

Credit assessment platform for SME lenders, Uplinq Financial Technologies, has announced a collaboration with Visa. Via the partnership, Visa will introduce Uplinq’s API-based technology to key financial institutions to help them mitigate risk and expand access to credit to small businesses in the U.S. and Canada. “This engagement is a testament to the promise of Read more…

The Smarter Approach to Winning in the Battleground for Insights within Financial Services

This is a sponsored article by Irene Galperin, InterSystems Innovation is at the forefront of every financial institution’s agenda. The days when a household name was enough for a bank, investment manager or lender to win and retain business are fading in the rear-view mirror. Today’s customers are digitally savvy and are more demanding of Read more…

5 Tales from the Crypto: Grayscale and the SEC, Coinbase and PayPal, Acquisitions and CBDCs

Is the tide turning in favor of crypto? Today’s unanimous, three-judge ruling in favor of Grayscale over the SEC is yet another sign that crypto winter could be transitioning into crypto spring. What happened? As we’ve been reporting in Tales from the Crypto, there has been a growing movement in favor of an exchange-traded fund Read more…

Bank of America Leverages Interac to Offer Digital Disbursements in Canada

Bank of America has teamed up with Canadian interbank network Interac today. The bank announced today it is launching its Global Digital Disbursements product for commercial clients in Canada. Global Digital Disbursements enables fast mobile B2C payments for users in multiple industries, such as insurance, healthcare, and education. The solution, which uses a person’s email Read more…

FICO and LigaData Bring Decision-as-a-Service to Telcos

Data and analytics firm FICO and big data analytics company LigaData have come together in a move to bring decision-as-a-service capabilities to telecommunications firms in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. The two California-based companies will offer solutions that leverage data to help telcos increase revenues, decrease costs, and expand their offerings. Tools included in Read more…

The Impact of AI in Fintech and Financial Services: Our Experts Weigh In

How will artificial intelligence – AI – drive innovation in fintech and financial services? This year at FinovateSpring we checked in with our experts to find out how AI will impact everything from the financial services workforce to the way customers interact with their bank or credit union. Featuring insights and observations from: Photo by Read more…

TreviPay Introduces Support for Cross-Currency B2B Sales

B2B payments and invoicing network TreviPay announced support for cross-currency sales between businesses. The new capability will enable TreviPay to facilitate transactions in which buyers want to be invoiced in and to pay with a currency that is different from the currency disbursed to the merchant. Referring to the capability as an “enhanced trade credit,” Read more…

Cybersecurity Firm VU Inks Strategic Partnership with Digital Payments Innovator NovoPayment

Cybersecurity firm VU will join the 60-partner application network of digital payments solutions company NovoPayment. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, NovoPayment offers a banking-as-a-service platform that leverages its network of open APIs, partnerships, and third-party integration to help its customers scale and adapt. “Collaborating with NovoPayment allows us to expand our vision and address new challenges Read more…

Mahalo Banking and Larky Announce Expanded Partnership to Boost Account Holder Engagement

An expanded partnership between a pair of Finovate alums is designed to help boost account holder engagement. Mahalo Banking, a banking solution provider for credit unions, and account holder engagement technology company Larky announced this week that they are building on their relationship by integrating Larky’s nudge technology into Mahalo’s online banking platform. “Our partnership Read more…

Tales from the Crypto: Coinbase on Futures, Etoro on Trends, Brazil and Canada on CBDCs

Coinbase’s Crypto Futures Courtesy of a just-secured regulatory approval from the National Futures Association, Coinbase’s U.S. customers will soon get the opportunity to trade futures contracts on cryptocurrencies. Coinbase’s Coinbase Financial Markets has been granted authority to operate as a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) and offer eligible customers in the U.S. access to crypto futures Read more…