Financial institutions and entrepreneurs have a complicated historical relationship. Entrepreneurs need the means to finance their businesses and stay afloat, which means they rely on banks for everything from business loans to checking accounts. And banks need entrepreneurs too. Without small businesses driving the economy, there’s not many banks can do. This (sometimes reluctant) codependency
PayZen, the fintech company tackling healthcare affordability with personalized, no-cost patient financing solutions, has raised a $220 million growth round to strengthen its leadership position as it pioneers the new category of Affordability Financing. The round is composed of $20 million in equity financing and a $200 million credit facility. The oversubscribed equity component was
Peter Rex, founder and Executive Chairman of Rex, announced that PayUp, a Rex company, has partnered with Austin-based nFusion Capital. PayUp is a technologized early payment solution for small and medium-sized businesses ensuring convenient and affordable access to capital. nFusion Capital is a private working capital finance company delivering customized financing solutions to small and medium-sized
Fintech and banks are not always the most comfortable partners, banks see banks as a digital threat to their business. This has created a “fear” among banks that fintechs are willing to beat them at their own game, as they serve customers in a way that banks may not, and fintechs too. tend to be
ZSuite Tech, a financial technology company that powers financial institutions with unbound digital accounts encompassing escrow, sub-accounting, sub-ledgering, FBO, and trust accounts for commercial customers, announced it has finalized its $11 million Series A funding round. This round was completed by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) and BankTech Ventures, LP (BTV). Led by ICBA,
Synovus announced the introduction of Synovus Accelerate FX, an end-to-end, innovative FX solution to drive the expansion of international banking services. Synovus Accelerate FX provides foreign exchange payments and trading services with convenient access and management through the Synovus Gateway commercial banking portal. Synovus Accelerate FX is supported by Finzly, a FinTech provider of modern banking
Smart money app Plum announces that it ranked no.1 among fintech and no.5 overall in the 2022 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over the last four years. Plum grew 7,735 percent during this period. “We’re delighted to be
Banks and credit unions need to start planning for the difficult economic situation that lies ahead. Due to the greater availability of cash, growing inflation and interest rates, the number of available positions, and pay inflation, this upcoming recession will be very different from the one that occurred in 2008. However, banks and credit unions
Fabrick, an international Open Finance provider, and Reale Group, a leading European insurance group, are delighted to announce a new partnership. This partnership will help optimise insurance premium payments whilst also making Fabrick’s Open Finance platform available to a network of more than 700 Reale Mutua and Italiana Assicurazioni agencies, as well as to Blue
The Matic coin, an alternative cryptocurrency based on Ethereum, authorises the Polygon network (initially called the Matic network). It aims to provide a long-term scaling solution to issues like high transaction costs and slow speeds. The rising volume of transactions on the Ethereum blockchain has placed a significant stress on the network, causing decreased performance
The Canadian fintech company Nuvei Corporation today announces the release of Nuvei for Platforms, a global payments solution. Businesses can integrate payments into their own platforms using the fully customizable product as either a Nuvei branded or white-label offering. It has been created to meet the payment needs of big fintech companies, banks, marketplaces, and
A new cross-border payments solution, Brightwell’s ReadyRemit *, powered by The Bancorp Bank, N.A., and Mastercard’s Cross-Border Services, was just unveiled by Atlanta-based Brightwell, a provider of global payments technology. ReadyRemit provides a user-friendly, cross-border payments solution with compliance capabilities, enabling fintechs, enterprises, and programme administrators to improve revenue and loyalty. When possible, the partnership
