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We have now gone two weeks without a banking failure here in this country so that counts as a win. And we now have a new owner for a good chunk of Silicon Valley Bank’s assets. Also making news this week is the new wallet from EWS, Apple Pay Later has launched, small and midsize […]
Watch the replay of 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. Watch the replay below. Fintech Nexus Staff This content was created by one of […]
When war broke out in Ukraine last year, Daumantas Dvilinskas and his team at TransferGo quickly realized the intensifying need for money-transferring services like theirs. Ukrainians were suddenly thrust into a world of combat with Russia and required immediate help to maintain their lives while existing in a war zone. Their families, friends, and others […]
More consumers prefer digital payments, a trend accelerated by the pandemic, results of a new survey from payments gateway Onbe reveal. The rates of online shopping, mobile wallet usage, apps, and P2P payments have also risen. Onbe CEO Bala Janakiraman said that while many platforms make it easy for businesses to accept consumer payments, few […]
On today’s episode, I’m joined by Lamine Zarrad, CEO and Founder of StellarFi. Lamine and I discuss his unique journey to the US and fintech, the inequities in the credit system, rebuilding your credit, why he chose to be a public benefit corporation, the health of the US consumer, banking regulation and failures, raising capital, and much more. […]
One of the real promises of fintech is to bring new populations into the financial system for the first time. While this sounds great in theory it is difficult to execute, particularly in developing countries where it is most needed. Shivani Siroya of Tala Our next guest on the Fintech One-on-One podcast is Shivani Siroya, […]
The following is a guest post by John C. Checco, Resident CISO, Financial Services, Proofpoint. Financial institutions have been a bigger target for cyber attackers for many years—and have prioritized cybersecurity sooner than many other businesses. As a result, they have often been more prepared to defend against threat actors. But new research shows that’s […]
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 […]