- + 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 partn...
- + Founders Series: 5 Conversations on Compliance and the Regulatory Landscape in Fintech—The regulatory landscape for companies innovating in fintech and financial services is complex and ever-changing. Whether a company is developing solu...
- + Blend Labs Raises $150 Million, Forges Strategic Partnership with Haveli Investments—Cloud banking services provider Blend raised $150 million in new funding from PE firm Haveli Investments. The investment comes in the form of con...
- + Permira Acquires Majority Stake in BioCatch with $1.3 Billion Valuation—Permira has acquired a majority stake in behavioral biometrics company BioCatch. Existing shareholders, Sapphire Ventures and Macquarie Capital, ...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 8—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Cardl...
- + Meet the Sustainability & Inclusion Scholarship Winners for FinovateSpring 2024—This year FinovateSpring will feature eight startups that are winners of our Sustainability & Inclusion Scholarship program . The program i...
- + Challenger Bank Lunar Raises $25.7 Million—Challenger bank Lunar raised $25.7 million (€24.1 million) in funding, boosting the company’s total raised to around $512 million. Lunar pl...
- + SecureAuth Acquires Access Management Technology Company Cloudentity—Seattle, Washington-based Cloudentity has been acquired by access management firm SecureAuth. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cloudentity h...
- + Veritran and Swift Announce Collaboration to Enhance Cross-Border Payments—International banking technology company Veritran announced a collaboration with financial messaging services company Swift. As part of the colla...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 7—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Ascen...
- + “Digitize or Die”: A Call to Arms for Building Societies—Moneyhub recently commissioned research into building societies and consumers, which involved interviews with building society leaders from the likes ...
- + DigiShares and InvestBay Team Up to Tokenize and Democratize Real Estate Investing—White-label tokenization platform for real estate DigiShares has partnered with Czech online real estate investing platform InvestBay. InvestBay ...
- + Upstart Launches RCP, a Tool to Help Banks Customize Loan Offers—Upstart launched a new capability, Recognized Customer Personalization (RCP), that allows banks to present customized loan offers to their clients s...
- + Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast: Financial Literacy, Core Banking, and Deepfake Detection—Finovate VP and host of the Finovate podcast Greg Palmer continues his conversations with Best of Show winning companies from FinovateEurope . ...
- + Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News—This week brings May Day, a day to celebrate the halfway point between spring and summer, and in the world of fintech, there are also exciting develop...
- + Gen AI, Geopolitics, and the Blue Dot Customer: 3 Conversations from FinovateEurope—Today we’re sharing our final set of conversations from our European fintech conference, FinovateEurope. This round of interviews expands beyond...
- + B2B Payments Consolidates: Paystand to Acquire Teampay—Paystand is acquiring Teampay. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Following the acquisition, Paystand will serve more than one ...
- + BMO Unveils Greener Future Financing to Help SMEs Build Climate-Resilience—BMO is bringing its Greener Future Financing program to the U.S. Green Future Financing is BMO’s first climate financing program to help SM...
- + Salesforce Launches Transaction Dispute Management Tool for Banks—Salesforce launched two new capabilities within its Einstein 1 platform, Transaction Dispute Management and Einstein Copilot Banking Actions . ...
- + The Finovate Podcast: How Credit Unions Use Technology to Bring New Projects to Life—This week on the Finovate Podcast , Finovate VP and podcast host Greg Palmer sat down with Brian Lee, CEO of Landings Credit Union . Their convers...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 6—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Atomi...
- + The 33 New Faces on the FinovateSpring Demo Stage—Finovate is best known for showcasing seven-minute fintech demos, and for this year’s FinovateSpring event (taking place May 21 through 23 i...
- + Impact Asset Manager Finance in Motion Partners with Financial Crime Regtech Napier AI—Impact asset manager Finance in Motion has teamed up with financial crime compliance specialist Napier AI. Finance in Motion will deploy Napier A...
- + ComplyAdvantage Acquires Knowledge Graph Creator Golden—ComplyAdvantage announced plans to acquire knowledge engine builder Golden Recursion for an undisclosed amount. ComplyAdvantage will implement Go...
- + Small Business Lending Platform JUDI.AI Inks a Trio of New Credit Union Customers—What do Apple Federal Credit Union , Carter Credit Union , and SCE Credit Union all have in common? All three financial institutions announce...
- + Betterment to Acquire Marcus’ Digital Investing Accounts—Betterment has agreed to acquire Goldman Sachs’ Marcus Invest. The deal does not apply to Marcus Deposits and does not cover any of Marcus&...
- + Data Privacy Vault Skyflow Secures $30 Million in New Funding—Data privacy vault Skyflow has raised $30 million in an extension Series B round led by Khosla Ventures. The investment comes amid growth in the ...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 5—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Moder...
- + TabaPay to Acquire Assets of Bankrupt Fintech Synapse—TabaPay plans to acquire the assets of troubled BaaS company Synapse Financial Technologies. TabaPay will use the assets to widen its selection o...
- + Happy Earth Day. Goodbye, ESG?—As we celebrate Earth Day, we’re taking a look at the state of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals in banking and fintech. Recent ...
- + Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News—Happy Earth Day! Partnerships in payments and fundraising in the international investment/wealth management space are dominating fintech news headline...
- + 10x Banking Inks Strategic Alliance Agreement with Deloitte—U.K.-based core banking platform 10x Banking announced a strategic alliance agreement with Deloitte. As part of the agreement, 10x will build a s...
- + 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 featur...
- + Bankjoy Teams Up with Account Activation Specialist Pinwheel—Bankjoy, a digital banking provider for banks and credit unions, announced a partnership with Pinwheel this week. Bankjoy will help its more than...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 4—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Anvil...
- + AI Squared Secures $13.8 Million in Series A Funding—AI integration platform AI Squared raised $13.8 million in Series A funding this week. Participating in the round were ANSA Capital (Allan Jean-B...
- + Mercury Launches into the Personal Banking Space—Business banking fintech Mercury is expanding into personal banking. The new accounts, dubbed Mercury Personal, will offer advanced banking tools...
- + Wealthtech, Open Banking, and Personalization: 3 Conversations from FinovateEurope—Our series on conversations with fintech experts from FinovateEurope continues this week. Today we feature three interviews I conducted with fintech p...
- + Codat’s New Product Aims to Replace Checks—Codat launched a Supplier Enablement data product with an aim to help businesses replace paper checks. The Supplier Enablement tool recruits su...
- + SoFi to Act as Sponsor Bank for Rapid Finance’s New Line of Credit Prepaid Card—Small business banking platform Rapid Finance is launching a Rapid Access Mastercard , a prepaid card through which small businesses can access their...
- + Coinme and CiNKO Team Up to Boost Digital Asset Adoption—Cash exchange network Coinme has partnered with digital payments platform CiNKO. The collaboration will enable Coinme customers to send funds to ...
- + Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News—In the U.S., the tax deadline kicks off the week, but don’t let that get you down! Sit back, relax, and catch up on some of the latest fintech n...
- + FinovateSpring 2024 Sneak Peek Series: Part 3—A look at the companies demoing at FinovateSpring in San Francisco on May 21 and 22. Register today using this link and save 20% . Deepl...
- + HighRadius Launches B2B Payments —HighRadius is launching a B2B payments platform. The new platform will have three main components to help businesses lower costs: Payment Gateway...
- + More Than $113 Million Raised by Nine Alums in Q1 2024—Nine Finovate alums raised more than $113 million in Q1 of 2024. The relatively low fundraising results for the first three months of the year do refl...
- + Satago Teams Up with Embedded Finance Innovator mmob—Embedded finance innovator mmob announced a partnership with U.K.-based fintech Satago. The partnership will make it easier for lenders and corpo...
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