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FINTECH

BlackRock | August 23, 2022

BlackRock today launched a first-of-its-kind suite of fixed income ETFs that provide access to buy-write investment strategies on baskets of fixed income securities: the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF, iShares High Yield Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF and the iShares Investment Grade Corporate Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF. Each ETF packages two potential income sources into one ticker – premiums generated by selling monthly call options on the underlying ETFs and ...

CORE BANKING

Locality Bank | June 13, 2022

Locality Bank, a digital-first community bank that launched January 12, 2022, has announced it has partnered with Hurdlr, a leading business expense, invoicing and accounting API. The integration on the Bank's mobile application is expected to roll out in 30 to 45 days. Utilizing the Hurdlr API integration with Locality Bank's platform will provide businesses with a way to seamlessly invoice their customers and automatically track expenses, income streams, and tax deductio...

FINTECH

Alviere | October 26, 2021

Alviere, the leading embedded finance platform enabling any brand to deliver financial products and services to its customers and employees, today announced that it had raised $70 million of new funding, the largest investment in this emerging sector of fintech to date. In April, Alviere closed a $20 million Series A led by Viola Ventures and Viola Fintech, with the participation of CommerzVentures, Mitsubishi Capital Corporation, Wix.com Capital (NYSE: WIX), Draper Triangle Ventu...

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

KPMG Spark | August 10, 2021

Bill.com, a largest supplier of cloud-based software that simplifies, digitises, and automates intricate back-office financial operations for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), confirmed recently that KPMG Spark has chosen Bill.com as their preferred partner to provide computerised bill pay to their clients. KPMG Spark, a KPMG business unit, is a managed accounting system that pairs small and medium-sized enterprises with a professional KPMG bookkeeper to deliver real-time online bookkeep...