Global fintech leader iCapital has raised over $820 million in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation beyond $7.5 billion. The financing was co-led by T. Rowe Price and SurgoCap Partners, with ongoing backing from existing investors Temasek, UBS, and BNY, and support from State Street. Founded in 2013, iCapital provides a comprehensive technology and
Unique AI, a vertical AI company, announced that it has successfully closed a $30m Series A funding round. Since its inception in 2021, the company has now amassed a total of $53m in investment. The latest funding round was spearheaded by CommerzVentures and DN Capital, with continued backing from early seed investors, including VI Partners
Swan, a company specialising in embedded banking, has raised €42m in a Series B funding round. The funding will support Swan’s mission to make embedded banking the standard across Europe. The company believes the industry is undergoing a major transformation, where financial services are becoming a key part of everyday business tools rather than standalone
Innovation is essential to ensure payments keep pace with consumer demand and to enable merchants to find new ways to engage and serve customers. However, to ensure that innovative new payment methods are introduced and their benefits are realized by both consumers and businesses, payment decision-makers are reluctant to take the plunge and adopt new
With two consecutive quarters of negative growth, we are by definition in a recession. The next question is, will it be light or heavy? While signs are currently pointing to a mild recession and a “light landing,” which is the ideal outcome, the advertising industry has taken a hit. Regardless of what we’re going through,
In terms of innovation, consumer-to-business (C2B) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) payment technologies are currently leading the way against business-to-business (B2B) alternatives. For example, PayPal payments can be made in real-time, while business-to-business payments can take days or even weeks. While protracted payments mostly occur when steps are taken to ensure the safety of all parties, many
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Allianz Group is one of the world’s leading insurers and asset managers. We offer our customers in more than 70 countries a wide range of personal and corporate insurance services, ranging from property, life and health insurance to assistance services to credit insurance and global business insurance.
As we all know, integrated finance refers to the integration of financial services into non-financial products and services, such as retail websites, mobile apps, and even physical products. In other words, it is making financial services more accessible and convenient for consumers by integrating them with the products and services they already use. Over the
What is IoT? A digital network of Internet-connected “things” that continuously share data and generate actions. It will have and is already beginning to have, a disruptive impact on the world around us through smart home technology. These “things” are everyday household items such as kitchen appliances such as refrigerators and ovens, car dashboards, smart
Let us explain in this short video why you don’t need to become a fintech to embed financial services into your digital product. After all, you’re a business, not a bank. Weavr is the fastest and most cost-efficient solution for any business wishing to embed finance. Our Financial Plug-ins are fully-formed solutions that bring together
