Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payment technology company, today announced that it has obtained a Payment Provider and Payment Facilitator license in Egypt. The licenses will allow Flutterwave to act as an official payments provider in the country, collect payments on behalf of its customers, and settle payments locally and globally. These licenses will allow Flutterwave to
STRIPE STORY HAS CREATED $2.5 BILLION Fundraising News 01.02.2023 12: 8 p.m. Stripe is in talks to raise $2.5 billion Stripe hits a massive $2.5 billion funding deal with existing investors that will value the payments giant between $55 billion and $60 billion, according to The Information. This increase would fall sharply from Stripe’s last
Trustly, the global payments platform for account-to-account (A2A) digital transactions, today announced the close of its acquisition of UK-based Open Banking payments platform EcoSpend UK, after being approved by the FCA. Trustly and EcoSpend together become the leading Open Bank payments company in the UK, providing connectivity to over 80 banks and reaching around 50
FNZ, the global asset management platform, has agreed to acquire YieldX, a US provider of bond portfolio management technology, optimization services and direct indexing tools to the industry. Asset Management. Financial institutions, advisors and their clients will benefit from the unique combination of FNZ’s full-service platform and YieldX’s digital infrastructure and technology solutions. These innovative
Ongoing economic uncertainty and inflated valuations are having a dramatic impact on the fintech funding cycle. Last year’s numbers paint a bleak picture – according to CB Insights, fintech companies raised $20.4 billion in Q2 2022, almost half the amount raised in the quarter. 2 years in 2021. With fintech valuations and start-up capital plummeting
Younger generations are demanding accessible digital banking services from their providers. They turn to neobanks and fintech unicorns like Robinhood to do their banking, payments, and investments. Neobanks, the bank in which all their services are online and accessible digitally, and the fintech unicorn, the startup that has reached a valuation of $1 billion, are
TMX Group Limited announced that it has made a strategic investment in VettaFi Holdings LLC (VettaFi), a US private sector data, analytics, indexing, digital distribution and thought leadership company. VettaFi fosters a cutting-edge, data-driven platform designed to empower and educate the modern financial advisor, asset manager and institutional investor. TMX Corporation purchased approximately 21% of
Copper, the go-to banking app that truly teaches teens and kids about money and sets them up for future financial success, announced its expansion to Copper Investing, a teen-centric Registered Investment Advisor (RIA). Copper Investing offers accessible, automated investing portfolios for teens to learn about (and actually start) building wealth in a safe environment. Its
AD Ports Group, the world’s leading industrial, logistics and trade support company, has entered into a partnership agreement with Africa Finance Corporation (“AFC”), a leading infrastructure solutions provider. in Africa, to bridge the infrastructure gap on the continent. This agreement allows the two organizations to join forces to identify, finance, develop and invest in much-needed
Fintech companies have been storming emerging markets for a while. In Latin America, for example, innovations have made it possible for unbanked people to access the financial services they have long awaited. And as mobile adoption has surged in recent years in Africa and Asia-Pacific, new payment solutions have emerged to serve the traditionally excluded.
In 2016, Andrew Hoag, a former senior executive at Verisign and web project manager at NASA’s Ames Research Center, founded Teampay, a platform that attempts to automate the software purchasing process for businesses. Hoag’s idea is that the way companies spend their money is changing, especially as they embrace digital transformation, and visibility and control
Honeywell has announced the release of Honeywell Smart Pay, a contactless software payment solution enabling the company’s powerful mobile to become secure and compliant payment terminals, accepting contactless mobile payments from anywhere a business sells or delivers goods and services. Honeywell Smart Pay gives sales associates and service workers the ability to complete on-site payments in
