Investment Executive

Starling Bank | February 10, 2020

Starling Bank has raised a further £60 million from existing backers Merian Global Investors and JTC. The investment brings the total raised by Starling to £323 million and follows two funding rounds of £105 million in aggregate led by Merian in 2019. The UK challenger bank says it will award shares to all 800 employees, incentivizing staff as it strives to meet a target for a first full year in profit by the end of 2021. Starling posted a £26.8 million loss in 2018. Anne...

Cision PR Newswire | October 05, 2020

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. A global Fintech leader, has announced a collaboration with PPI AG, the Hamburg, Germany-based payments consultancy and supplier, to launch a joint payments initiative for banks and financial institutions in Europe. Many banks are currently facing major challenges in payments processing, driven by recent and ongoing market changes, such as the implementation of PSD2, SEPA ISO migration, TARGET2 and SWIFT ISO20022 migration, while also responding to national p...

FINTECH

Treasury Prime | October 22, 2021

Treasury Prime, the leading Banking as a Service (BaaS) company, today announced that since launching their partnership with Piermont Bank, a tech-enabled digital commercial bank, they have closed partnerships with over 30 fintech companies, including: Mythia, debit card for gamers (Read the case study) Tuvoli, a platform for the private air charter industry, (Read the case study) Wagestream, the financial well-being app for people in w...

PAYMENTS

SwiftPass, Wallyt, Findora | December 29, 2020

Findora reported today that the organization will coordinate their solutions with SwiftPass, a main mobile payments service provider in Asia, and Wallyt, a Hong Kong based Fintech that gives global mobile payments and open banking solutions. Findora is a blockchain network that use zero-knowledge proof technology to guarantee security for financial transactions while staying auditable. Findora upholds classified exchange processing, verification and asset issuance for any cryptocurrency or finan...