The Series C round brings Watershed’s valuation to $1.8bn. This significant injection of capital comes courtesy of lead investor Greenoaks, with notable contributions from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, and several other existing stakeholders. At its core, Watershed’s mission is to hasten the progression of the climate economy. The firm operates with a heightened sense of urgency
Moove, a mobile FinTech, has received $76 million in new funding, including $28 million in equity from new and existing investors. Funding round led by Mubadala Investment Company (Mubadala), $10 million in venture capital debt from funds and accounts managed by BlackRock, and $38 million in undisclosed amounts previously raised in the last few years
flynas, the airline of Saudi Arabia and a low-cost airline in the Middle East, has partnered with Tabby, a financial services and shopping app based on MENA, to provide travelers with payment solutions flexible math. This partnership comes at a favorable time for travelers, especially with the increasing demand for air travel around the world.
Cross Riverbank, a technology infrastructure provider that offers embedded financial solutions, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Plaid, a data network helping the digital financial ecosystem, to deliver multi-rail payment solutions to US businesses and their customers. “Expanding our relationship with Plaid to power their real-time offerings is a significant milestone in our
Hub71, a global technology ecosystem in Abu Dhabi, and Wio Bank PJSC have announced a strategic partnership to transform the banking experience for startup founders in the capital. Partnership to improve bank account processes for SMEs; Wio becomes Hub71’s official banking partner, enabling startup founders to benefit from commercialization opportunities and professional mentoring to drive
Unlimit, a global FinTech company, has announced a partnership with inDrive, the growing online car sharing service in the United States. Under the partnership, inDrive will leverage Unlimit’s proprietary payments infrastructure to continue its global expansion with local payment solutions in new markets, including local currency payment processing and through secure payment methods. Unlimited provides
Cashflows, the platform that allows merchants to accept payments, has launched a new cloud-based direct (point of sale) payment solution. The platform is designed for merchants, independent sales organizations (ISOs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to provide merchants in all industries with a fast and reliable direct payment solution. As part of the
TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, has partnered with Safaricom, a financial services, IT and telecommunications provider based in Kenya. TerraPay Group company Mobex (Kenya), a remittance service provider, will enable over 30 million M-PESA mobile wallet owners in Kenya to send real-time payments through TerraPay’s interoperable network to all wallets in Bangladesh and Pakistan,
FNZ, the global wealth management platform, has launched FNZ Yield Plus Notes to offer professional investors such as corporates, pension funds, banks, insurers, asset managers and other institutional investors a low-risk cash alternative and strengthens its global proposition. The FNZ Yield Plus bond offers investors a higher yield than an equivalent rated government bond of
Temenos announced that Convera, the largest non-bank global B2B payments provider, has selected Temenos Payments Hub running in the Temenos Cloud to modernize its payments infrastructure. The move to Temenos Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will help Convera to drive efficiency in payment processing from inbound funding to outbound disbursements and massively scale with the aim to double
Marqueta, a global card issuance platform, has announced an expansion into Brazil. The company cooperates with Latin American banking platform Fitbank and certifies the network with Visa As part of Marqeta’s partnership with Fitbank, the company will be a Marqeta customer, use it as a payment processor, and will act as a BIN sponsor for
Citi has announced the launch of a new platform, CitiDirect® Commercial Banking, specifically to address the needs of Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) clients. This is part of Citi’s significant strategic investment plan to meet the growing global needs of these clients by delivering a single-entry point digital platform. CitiDirect® Commercial Banking brings together Citi’s global
