Fintech / Fintech News - 6 days ago
Young people want to learn more about personal finance at school, and many are worried about leaving full-time education without the money skills required for adult life, new research from GoHenry, the prepaid debit card and financial education app,...
Fintech / Fintech News - 6 days ago
Over nine in 10 (97 per cent) financial services and insurance (FSI) organisations believe generative AI will have a big impact on their success in the next three years according to research from Hakkoda, the cloud data engineering consultancy specia...
Fintech / Fintech News - 6 days ago
Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, SC Ventures, has strategically invested in Algbra, an ethical finance-focused and sharia-compliant UK-based fintech. The move will also see Shoal, SC Ventures’ sustainable finance...
Fintech / Fintech News - 6 days ago
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has committed S$35million to upskill and reskill specialists in sustainable finance and has joined forces with the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF), supported by Workforce Singapore (WSG), to launch a n...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
After two major delays, Payments Canada, an organisation that operates a payment clearing and settlement system in Canada, has resumed the development of the Real-Time Rail (RTR) payments system. The new system will allow payments to be sent and rec...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
The financial upheaval of the previous year prompted numerous homebuyers to develop a heightened regard for mortgage brokers. Earlier this year, Acre, an intermediaries platforms for brokers, bagged £6.5million investment to grow its tech platform an...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has partnered with Milkywire, an environmental impact platform, to launch a new fund to open to tech and finance companies looking to invest directly in impactful projects to cont...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Welcome to The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup on Thursday 18 April 2024 Funding and investments Wagestream, a financial benefits platform used by employers at Asda, Burger King, Bupa and Hilton, has raised a further £17.5million in funding from...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Banks, non-banks and fintechs have just one year to prepare for some of the biggest regulatory shake-ups to fundamentally impact the way they do business. Alex Reddish, managing director of Tribe Payments, delves into the intricacies of PSD3, PSR and...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. New investor Khosla Ventures and existing backer Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also included...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2017, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The expansion is a natural move for the company and o...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our most asked for products,” said David Fock, Klarna’s chief product and design officer, “and will allow pe...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama affecting even its most promising-looking startups. But recently, LemFi, the Nigeria-based fintech tha...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
For the past nine years, FIS – a global provider of financial services technology solutions for financial institutions, businesses and developers – has supported fintech innovation and growth through its accelerator programme. Since its i...
Fintech / Fintech News - 1 week ago
On this week’s episode of News & Views, The Fintech Times Podcast team speak about digital banks continuing to capture users, how false declines are harming retailers’ reputation on social media and why 40 per cent of businesses are s...