Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

Investment and innovation are defining the wealth management space as the week begins. LA-based wealth management platform Altruist enters the week with $169 million more in capital, courtesy of a Series E round led by Iconiq Growth. Meanwhile, JP Morgan Chase announced that it has deployed generative AI to enhance its thematic investment offering. Be Read more…

Finovate Global Denmark: Financing Spend Management Solutions and Small Business Tools

A few days ago, we highlighted the $25.7 million (€24.1 million) investment secured by Danish challenger bank Lunar. Also this week, we noted partnership news from Denmark-based real estate tokenization platform – and FinovateSpring alum – DigiShares. With all this Danish fintech news, we are devoting this week’s edition of Finovate Global to the fintech Read more…

BMO Unveils Greener Future Financing to Help SMEs Build Climate-Resilience

Canada-based BMO is bringing its Greener Future Financing program to the United States. The eighth largest bank in North America by assets, BMO announced the launch earlier this week. Greener Future Financing is the financial institution’s first climate financing program designed to help SMEs build climate-resilient operations. Specifically, the program will offer climate resiliency loan Read more…

10x Banking Inks Strategic Alliance Agreement with Deloitte

SaaS core banking platform 10x Banking has inked a strategic alliance agreement with Deloitte. Effective in both the U.S. and the U.K., the agreement will power greater cooperation when it comes to helping financial institutions around the world access transformative technologies. As part of the strategic alliance, the two firms will launch a series of Read more…

Finovate Global: Digital Banking in Romania, Alternative Lending in Latvia, ESG in the CEE

This week’s edition of Finovate Global reviews the latest fintech developments in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This region features a diverse range of countries including Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, and Slovenia. More than 250 million people live in the CEE, which has a Read more…

Themes From the 21 Fintech YCombinator Graduates

YCombinator (YC) recently wrapped up its three-month winter tech accelerator program, holding its demo day last week. This program, which is one of two the accelerator hosts each year, comprised of 21 fintech companies. The fintech graduates from YC’s winter program can be broken down into six main categories: asset management, banking and exchange, credit Read more…

Busey Bank Taps CorServ to Launch Modern Card Program

Illinois-based Busey Bank announced today it has selected card issuer CorServ to power a a modern credit card program for its commercial customers. Busey Bank has switched from its Agent Bank program, in which a third party financial institution issued the cards, selecting CorServ’s Account Issuer Program, in which Busey Bank will directly issue credit Read more…

Finovate Global Nigeria: Payments, Supply Chain Financing, and a Look at our African Alums

This week Finovate Global looks at recent fintech news from Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Nigerian blockchain network Zone secures investment Last week in Finovate Global we noted the news that Nigerian blockchain network Zone had raised $8.5 million in seed funding. This week we’re filling in some of the details of the investment – Read more…

Apiture to Power Online and Mobile Banking for New Washington State Bank

New Washington State Bank (NWSB), a community financial institution serving Southern Indiana for 116 years, has partnered with Apiture to power its online and mobile banking offerings. The bank will deploy Apiture’s Digital Banking Platform, and implement the fintech’s Consumer Banking, Business Banking, Account Opening, and Data Intelligence solutions. “With integrations to more than 200 Read more…

Finovate Global Israel: Identity Verification, Data Privacy, and an Introduction to New Alums

This week’s edition of Finovate Global reviews the latest fintech headlines from Israel. We also introduce you to a quartet of new Finovate alums – all making their Finovate debuts at FinovateEurope last month – all headquartered in Israel. AU10TIX expands its Digital ID identity verification solution Israel-based identity verification and management specialist AU10TIX announced Read more…

Finovate Global Germany: Investing in Embedded Finance, Open Banking in Payments, N26 in France

This week’s edition of Finovate Global features the latest fintech news from Germany, where investors are backing innovations in embedded finance, payments companies are taking advantage of open banking, and the green shoots of crypto spring are growing ever more apparent. Solaris secures funding Germany’s embedded finance platform Solaris secured $103 million (€96 million) in Read more…

Finovate Global Sweden: Open Banking, New Leadership, and A Defense of Cash

This week’s edition of Finovate Global takes a look at recent fintech developments and news from Sweden. Over the years, Finovate has been proud to showcase a number of fintechs from Sweden, a country with a population of more than 10.5 million and the twelfth largest economy as measured by GDP. Last month at FinovateEurope, Read more…