Big ways the net changed the funding world
The internet has changed the world of finance in a huge way. By no means least amongst those changes are the waves made by cryptocurrency and the slow (but steady) adoption of blockchain technology in...
View ArticleFintech buys traditional bank
At a time when many banks are looking to invest in fintech companies, the open banking fintech Raisin is taking the road less travelled by buying MHB Bank of Frankfurt, its long-time service bank. The...
View ArticleFunding Circle coming to Canada
Funding Circle, a leading small business loans platform in the UK, US, Germany and the Netherlands, today announced its plans to enter the Canadian market in the second half of 2019 with an office...
View ArticleBlueVine financing now available at Nationwide
Nationwide is taking the next step in a venture capital investment it made last year in online small business lending company BlueVine by offering BlueVine financing to small businesses through its...
View ArticleBAMFi secures $30M in debt funding from Solar Capital
BAMFi, a provider of fintech solutions, has closed $30 million of second lien debt financing from Solar Capital Partners, LLC and its affiliates. Combined with BAMFi’s existing senior bank facility,...
View ArticleNeural machine translation technology improvements slicing translation costs
There has been a dramatic drop in the cost of translation services for major corporations in the past year and the savings amounts to at least 30 percent, according to One Hour Translation (OHT). The...
View ArticleBank boredom: Investing your cash elsewhere for a better return
In today’s financial climate, there is distrust, and a lack of faith in many of the big-name banks. It’s no surprise, with low interest rates for savings, and high interest rates for loans and...
View Articleiovation/Aite Group report suggests companies unprepared for PSD2
iovation, a TransUnion company, today announced the immediate availability of a report it developed with research and advisory firm Aite Group entitled PSD2: Advent of the new payments market in...
View ArticleBarclaycard, Alipay to help UK merchants increase Chinese tourist sales
Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of the UK’s credit and debit card transactions, today announced a new agreement with Alipay, the world’s leading payment and lifestyle platform, which will...
View ArticleMicrosoft Dynamics users drowning in AP paper: Survey
Dooap, an accounts payable (AP) automation provider for Microsoft Dynamics environments, announced today more than 75 percent of AP departments using Dynamics Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)...
View ArticleNew MYPINPAD authentication platform addresses PSD2 needs
MYPINPAD, a provider of secure customer authentication solutions, has launched an authenticator platform to allow financial institutions to freely develop PSD2 compliant solutions in a secure sandbox...
View ArticleDoes too much automation cost wealth managers clients?
In recent years a growing number of wealth management firms are investing to partner with or build their own technology solutions (robo-advisors) to offer better financial advice to customers. However,...
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MoneyNetint has launched a new payment service for travelers who receive traffic tickets in Europe. In most EU countries, you pay the speeding or parking fines through local channels, and this...
View ArticleTalkwalker offers AI-powered video analytics
Talkwalker, a social listening and analytics platform, today became the first and only solution in the industry to offer brands and agencies AI-powered video analytics. This, combined with Talkwalker’s...
View ArticleChris Gottschalk to lead US-based $200M Santander fund
Santander InnoVentures, Santander Group’s global corporate venture capital fund, has appointed Chris Gottschalk as a senior adviser to lead the $200M fund’s strategic direction in the US. Chris is...
View ArticlePrepaid Technologies acquires Karmic Labs’ dash
Prepaid Technologies, a provider of business payment solutions, has acquired Karmic Labs’ dash, the San Francisco-based purchasing card portfolio and expense management solution, as well as other...
View ArticlePeerStreet adds residential for rent loan product
PeerStreet, a platform for investing in real estate backed loans, today announced the launch of a new loan product for private lenders: Residential for Rent loans. Residential for Rent loans have a...
View ArticleMobile bill payment service doxo launches Apple Pay
doxo, a web and mobile bill payment service, today announced the launch of Apple Pay, bringing the convenience of paying bills with just a glance or a touch on iPhone, iPad and Mac to the $3.9...
View ArticleCPPO Prepaid Symposium adds news speakers
The Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization (CPPO), the voice of the rapidly growing prepaid payments industry in Canada, has announced new speakers for the third annual CPPO Prepaid Symposium on May...
View ArticleAmount, TD Bank announce tech partnership
Amount, a leading technology provider for financial institutions, today announced a strategic partnership with TD Bank. TD Bank, a top ten U.S. bank, is leveraging Amount’s platform to power the...
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