Chile’s Toku raised $7.15 million in a seed round to expand digital collection services in Latin America. The fintech will apply the funds to enhance its current strategy in Mexico while it eyes new expansions in the region. The investment round was led by U.S. venture capital firm F-Prime Capital and was accompanied by Wollef, Honey […]
The option for buy-now-pay-later services between businesses in the UK is now more widely available as iwocaPay has integrated its B2B payment solution with QuickBooks. The arrangement, announced last month, sees iwocaPay become the UK’s first B2B BNPL solution for cloud accounting software. The London-based iwocaPay, whose fintech parent is flexible lending platform iwoca, allows […]
In the often male-saturated environment of finance and tech (and subsequently fintech), Fintech Nexus has positioned itself to support the thriving community of women in the industry. As part of this year’s Fintech Nexus USA event, Deloitte will sponsor another Women in Fintech Program. The program is dedicated to fostering meaningful connections in the industry […]
The following is a guest post by Stacy Dubovik, Financial Technology and Blockchain Researcher with ScienceSoft. “High-quality service is the lifeblood of success.” This age-old adage rings true in today’s digital world, where user satisfaction is the key to unlocking growth. To deliver top-notch service, companies must deeply understand their network operations, identifying and troubleshooting […]
Last year, ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, lawyer Puja Ohlhaver, and economist Eric Glen Weyl introduced the Soulbound token (SBT) idea — fundamentally a non-transferable NFT without monetary value. The tokens focus on creating a digital identity that remains on the blockchain. Their on-chain nature would make falsification of data and tampering close to impossible. It […]
The news of the Silicon Valley Bridge Bank (SVBB) to First Citizens Bank could mark the beginning and end of the banking turmoil. While not all the assets from Silicon Valley Financial, the failed bank’s parent company, have yet been auctioned off, there is an almost audible sigh of relief from the US banking system. […]
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 12 p.m. EDT What is this webinar about? In times of economic uncertainty, risk, and operations teams must use aggressive fraud prevention measures to protect their organizations. The techniques fraudsters use are always evolving — but so are the strategies and solutions used to thwart them. This session will cover why […]
Join us live for our weekly news roundup show with hosts Todd Anderson and Peter Renton, with special guest Ron Shevlin. This fast-paced show features the content leaders of Fintech Nexus discussing the biggest fintech news stories of the past week. The show kicks off at 5 p.m. EST. Fintech Nexus Staff This content was […]
Over the past half-decade, embedded finance and its supporting technology have matured to make save now, buy later (SNBL) a winning option, Ahon Sarkar said. Sarkar is the general manager of Q2’s Helix division. Helix works with companies to make personalized banking products. Sarkar said embedded finance had undergone several iterations in its short history. […]
Pomelo, an Argentine startup focused on financial solutions for LatAm fintechs, received today authorization from the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB) to operate as a payment institution in the South American country, with the modalities of electronic money issuer and post-paid payment instrument. Pomelo’s COO and General Manager in Brazil, John Paz, said that getting the […]