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AEP RELEASES SUSTAINABLE FINANCE FRAMEWORK
American Electric Power (Nasdaq: AEP) has developed a Sustainable Finance Framework, which will allow the company and its subsidiaries to issue green, social and sustainability bonds, loans or other financial instruments and allocate the funds to investments that enable positive social and environmental change.
The framework strengthens the link between AEP’s finance strategy and its clean energy commitments and social values. Net proceeds from the instruments will be used by AEP or its subsidiaries to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, new or existing projects or assets that support renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, access to essential services and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment. The framework aligns with eight of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: quality education; gender equality; affordable and clean energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation and infrastructure; reduced inequalities; sustainable cities and communities; and climate action. AEP appointed Sustainalytics to provide a second-party opinion on the framework, and Credit Agricole CIB advised AEP on the development of the framework.
FINOS WELCOMES FIVE NEW MEMBERS BOLSTERING FINTECH, FINANCIAL SERVICES, OPEN SOURCE AND REGTECH REPRESENTATION AT THE FOUNDATION
Recent adoption of collaborative open source strategies across financial services and fintech is a direct result of the demand to solve business problems in order to stay competitive. The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) is the catalyst for this movement and today announced that five new members have joined the foundation, which is evidence of increased adoption. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, CloudLinux, Digital Asset and EGAR Global join as silver members and Canadian RegTech Association joins as an associate member. Each organization provides unique value in different ways from regtech leadership to cloud innovation to distributed ledger technology for the financial open source community and will ultimately further adoption of open source strategies within the industry.
SENSIBILL AND CAARY PARTNER TO BRING ROBUST DIGITAL FINANCE SOLUTION TO SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES
Sensibill, the leading provider of everyday financial tools and SKU-level insights, and CAARY, a new credit and financial platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), today announced their partnership. Together, the companies will offer a seamless, end-to-end financial services solution for SMEs that includes credit, payment solutions, receipt capture, expense management and automated reconciliation.
“We were looking for a strong partner with a progressive approach to round out our platform,” said John MacKinlay, CEO of CAARY. “With Sensibill, our customers have access to a leading digital receipt management solution as well as deep, contextual insights to proactively identify their financial needs and spending habits. This provides huge opportunities for SMEs to save money and optimize spend.”
FIGURE ANNOUNCES MERGER WITH TOP MORTGAGE LENDER HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES
Figure Technologies, Inc. (Figure™), a leader in transforming financial services through the power of blockchain technology, today announced it has signed an agreement to merge with Homebridge Financial Services in a landmark deal that will reshape the technology landscape of the nation’s mortgage industry.
“We are bringing together the most robust, powerful and efficient technology ever seen in lending and pairing that with a $25 billion a year loan originator with 150,000 customers who we can introduce to new payment and lending products,” said Mike Cagney, co-founder and CEO of Figure. “We’re going to deliver to this all-star loan origination team at Homebridge a tech platform on Provenance Blockchain that is going to double their capacity for fulfilling loans.”
HUAWEI VOWS TO ENABLE DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM-BASED FINANCE IN APAC
Huawei on July 29, 2021 held its first virtual Asia-Pacific Intelligent Finance Summit 2021, with the theme “Accelerate Digital Transformation in Banking, New Value Together”. As economies across the Asia-Pacific region continue to recover and rebound, leading banks and financial institutions are accelerating digital transformation, seizing new digitalization opportunities to reinvent themselves for what the future holds.
This event attracted more than 1,300 financial industry customers, partners, industry experts and media across Asia-Pacific regions. Huawei is honored to invite financial industry core customers and partners like BDO Unibank, KASIKORN Business – Technology Group (KBTG), PwC and IDC to participate in the panel discussion and share their experiences on how they utilize technology to upgrade the industry and range of services on offer by constructing an ecosystem that is agile and intelligent, and ultimately transform themselves into digital-capable eco-enterprises.
SYMPHONY ACQUIRES STREETLINX TO OFFER THE MOST COMPLETE AND SECURE VERIFIED IDENTITY DIRECTORY IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Symphony- the leading markets’ infrastructure and technology platform – will now offer the most complete and secure verified directory in the financial services industry as it has acquired the counterparty mapping platform StreetLinx. This acquisition adds over 200 institutional counterparties to the more than 1000 institutions already served by Symphony.
“As we accelerate from directory to identity solutions, Streetlinx brings Symphony a full spectrum of identity-verified investment professionals, including portfolio managers, traders, research analysts and sales teams that will enrich Symphony’s already established and active community of over half a million financial professionals. We are proud to continue to add value to our user community and the industry as a whole”, said Symphony CEO Brad Levy.
TERRANOVA CAPITAL ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF SPAC BACKSTOP AND DESPAC FINANCE PLATFORM.
TerraNova Capital Structured Finance (“TerraNova Capital”), the credit advisory and special purpose finance division of TerraNova Capital Equities, Inc. today announced the launch of their SPAC Backstop and deSPAC finance platform. The TerraNova finance platform will help SPACs identify structured finance solutions in conjunction or in place of PIPE financing and redemption shortfalls.
“With over 200 SPACs seeking to execute completion of their target deSPAC and mergers, many SPACs are concerned about the ongoing constraints in the PIPE Market as well as redemptions,” stated Todd Coffin, Head of Structured Finance.
FINITIVE HONORED ON FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY REPORT’S 2021 LIST OF TOP 100 FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
Finitive, the leading data-driven private credit marketplace, today announced that it has been named one of the Top 100 Financial Technology Companies of 2021 by the Financial Technology Report.
Founded in 2017, Finitive’s tech-enabled platform offers institutional investors access to a multi-trillion-dollar market of private credit opportunities across multiple asset classes and structures, including specialty finance, online lending, marketplace lending, and private credit funds. Using Finitive, borrowers have opportunities to access private credit funding from over 700 institutional investors with over $6 trillion in AUM.
FISERV RESEARCH SHOWS DIGITAL WALLET USE SURGING, FINTECHS KEY TO CONSUMER FINANCIAL EXPERIENCE
With consumers leveraging digital tools more than ever, fintechs have become integral to the consumer financial experience according to the latest Expectations & Experiences consumer trends survey from Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions. Fintechs are playing a key part in enabling money management, often filling a need for specific capabilities such as checking credit scores and buying cryptocurrency.
“Consumers are steadily integrating third-party apps into their financial experience, a trend driven by tech-savvy millennial and Gen Z users,” said Sunil Sachdev, head of Fintech at Fiserv. “People have high expectations for their digital experiences, wanting innovative and intuitive solutions. With consumer demands shifting, more financial institutions are bringing fintechs into the fold and partnering with them to deliver the services customers want through their trusted banking relationship.”
MONEYLION TO ACQUIRE EVEN FINANCIAL, EXPANDING DISTRIBUTION NETWORK AND ENHANCING CONSUMERS’ FINANCIAL ACCESS AND DECISION MAKING
MoneyLion Inc., the award-winning digital financial platform, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Even Financial Inc. (“Even”), the category-leading embedded finance marketplace, to accelerate its mission of providing financial access and advice to hardworking Americans.
The transaction provides for total consideration to Even’s equity holders of up to $440 million, using a convertible financing structure that values MoneyLion at its initial public listing price of $10 per share. Even’s investors include Goldman Sachs, American Express Ventures, SoFi, F-Prime Capital, MassMutual Ventures, LendingClub, Canaan Partners, and GreatPoint Ventures.
NIUM LAUNCHES VIRTUAL CARD ISSUING SOLUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES TRAVEL INDUSTRY
Nium, a leader in global payments and card issuance for businesses, today launched its virtual card issuing solution in the United States, making it faster and easier for travel-related businesses to pay suppliers. The Nium virtual card solution enables online travel agencies (OTAs), travel management companies, travel tour operators, and corporations to streamline, revamp their spend management processes, and drive greater productivity and cost savings. Businesses can now digitize their supply chain, such as payments to suppliers and vendors, or internal processes, such as automated reconciliation – all with better rebates and higher levels of security.
M1 FINANCE SELECTS FORMPIPE AS PART OF ITS ROLLOUT OF THE TEMENOS BANKING CLOUD
Formpipe Software announced today that M1 Finance, The Finance Super App™, has selected Lasernet to support its output and document management requirements as it rolls out its Invest, Borrow and Spend products for its hundreds of thousands of clients on the Temenos Banking Cloud.
Brian Barnes, founder and CEO of M1 Finance recently announced his purchase agreement of The First National Bank of Buhl, a nationally chartered bank, and M1’s partnership agreement with Temenos. Both agreements are part of a strategic growth and product diversification plan that adds retail banking to M1’s brokerage platform.
EASYCASH: AN INTEROPERABLE EPAYMENT SUITE POWERED BY WALLET FACTORY LAUNCHED IN EGYPT
EasyCash, a revolutionary digital wallet solution for effortless online payments, has been recently soft-launched for iOS and Android users in Egypt.
EasyCash has become the first mobile payment application for Wallet Factory that was made to align with the Egyptian interoperability market standards for QR code-based digital payments and acceptance. Via seamless integration through Mastercard and Meeza, the nationwide payment network system, EasyCash enables users to make online payments and access funds wherever, whenever and however they choose.
MAJOR INVESTORS BACK TRADESHIFT’S COMBINED SAAS AND FINTECH PLATFORM CONNECTING THE WORLD’S SUPPLY CHAINS
Tradeshift has secured more than $200m in funding and debt from a combination of existing and new investors, including Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held companies in the US. Participation also came from IDC Ventures, LUN Partners, Private Shares, and Fuel Capital who increased their existing stake in Tradeshift’s combined portfolio of enterprise SaaS, marketplace, and fintech products serving the world’s most dynamic B2B community of digitally connected buyers and suppliers. The capital will be used to optimize Tradeshift growth and balance sheet to continue scaling the business.
ZSUITE TECHNOLOGIES ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH Q2’S DIGITAL BANKING PLATFORM
ZSuite Technologies, a financial technology company that powers community financial institutions with digital escrow products for specific commercial verticals, today announced its API integration with Q2’s Digital Banking Platform, leveraging the Q2 Innovation Studio. Through the integration, Q2 clients will be able to take advantage of ZSuite’s solutions via the Q2 Partner Accelerator Program.
Q2’s Partner Accelerator program allows in-demand financial services companies who are leveraging the Q2 SDK to pre-integrate their technology to the Q2 Digital Banking platform. Financial institutions can work with these partners to purchase their solutions and rapidly deploy the standardized integrations to their customers.
TRUIST ANNOUNCES PARTNERSHIP WITH COMMERCE PLATFORM COMPANY AUTOFI
Truist Financial Corporation , through its Dealer Finance and Regional Acceptance business groups, today announced a partnership with commerce platform company AutoFi. Under the agreement, financing options will be available to clients who are shopping for a car through a dealer that partners with Truist or Regional Acceptance as well as the AutoFi platform. This will enable clients to create and submit an online credit application.