United Community Banks, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Sally Pope Davis to its Board of Directors. Davis recently retired as a managing director after a 35-year career at Goldman Sachs. She co-led one of the industry’s largest small-cap value funds during her tenure at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, while also having specific responsibilities for and expertise in investments across the financial sector, including banking, insurance, capital markets and specialty finance companies. She joined Goldman Sachs...

Tarabut, the first and largest regulated open banking platform in the MENA region, announced the acquisition of London-based Vyne, a real-time account-to-account (A2A) payments platform for online businesses. This strategic acquisition, which has been approved by both the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), bolsters Tarabut’s ability to deliver faster, more accessible, and more interconnected financial services, both across the region and globally. The deal closed officially on August 1st,...

Biptap, one of the fastest-growing fintech companies, specializing in privacy-centric offshore banking solutions, announced it has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round attracted prominent investors, including multiple web3 decentralized investment funds, a travel facilitator with a 2.5 million hotel network, an encryption tech firm formerly owning a MotoGP Racing team, and the ex-founder of a major crypto investment fund. This funding marks a significant milestone for Biptap as it aims to...

Mr. Douglass brings to Barclays a deep understanding of the private equity asset class and extensive M&A transaction experience that will further strengthen the firm’s M&A platform and Financial Sponsors business.

Retired Visa Inc. Executive Set to Join The Bancorp Board of Directors in October

Appel will lead buy-side and sell-side activity in the firm’s Transaction Advisory Practice

Most recently, Alkami has been certified by J.D. Power for providing "An Outstanding Mobile Banking Platform Experience" for clients.

RiskExec, Inc. (“RiskExec”), a subsidiary of Asurity Technologies, LLC (“Asurity®”), is pleased to announce that Colorado-based Alpine Bank has selected the RiskExec platform to support Alpine’s CRA, HMDA, and Fair Lending compliance needs. RiskExec is a leading SaaS analytics and reporting platform designed to facilitate the management of regulatory compliance challenges for banks, credit unions, and a variety of other lenders – including auto and digital lenders. The best-in-class solution quickly geocodes, runs edit checks, and with...