Top 5 Financial Management Techniques
October 13, 20228 min
Emerging uncertainties in the global market are pushing businesses to rethink their financial management techniques. How can organizations get it right?
Financial Services Regulation – Is it ready for the next crisis?
September 22, 202220 min
Financial services regulation has changed over the past 15 years. Better global collaboration has addressed many concerns. Can it mitigate the future crisis?
J.P. Morgan and Hamilton Lane add to their prior investments; Funding in Series A, B, C and D totals ~$204 million in last eighteen months TIFIN, a fintech platform using artificial intelligence (AI) and investment-driven personalization to shape the future of investor experiences, today announced the successful closing of $109 million in a Series D financing round. Franklin Resources (NYSE: BEN), a global investment manager operating under Franklin Templeton, and Motive Partners, a next-generation investment firm focused on technology enabled companies...
SSSHI Invests in Digital Prime Technologies
April 28, 20224 min
South Street Securities Holdings, Inc. (“SSSHI”) is partnering with Digital Prime Technologies (“Digital Prime”), an innovative provider of turnkey, prime brokerage solutions for financial institutions. Digital Prime’s platform for digital assets provides traditional securities-based prime brokers a technology solution to offer their clients the ability to execute, leverage, and finance digital asset trading strategies in one platform. This will allow SSSHI to expand into the digital asset trading and lending space efficiently with institutional clients....
Unified Commerce Presents Growth Opportunity for Retailers
April 21, 20227 min
Integrating payments systems across the entire business increases growth projections by nearly 10%, in addition to increasing overall sales and customer loyalty Research released by Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, revealed that unified commerce — connecting online and offline payments systems into one platform — increases growth projections for American retailers by nearly 10%. Conducted in partnership with Opinium LLP, Censuswide, and the Centre for Economic Business Research (Cebr),...
FIS Teams with Fireblocks to Accelerate Crypto Adoption
April 18, 20224 min
FIS and Fireblocks are teaming to provide enterprise-grade digital asset investing and wallet technology, lending and decentralized finance (DeFi) to FIS capital market clients. Capital markets buy-side, sell-side and corporate firms can now efficiently gain access to the largest crypto trading venues, liquidity providers, lending desks and DeFi applications. Today, financial technology leader FIS® (NYSE: FIS) announced it has teamed with Fireblocks to accelerate crypto adoption within the capital markets industry by enabling firms of all types...
OneConnect Enters Banking Software-as-a-Service Space with Pismo
April 12, 20225 min
Combining the best of the East and West, OneConnect taps into banking Software-as-a-Service, extending its range of services in SEA and the Middle East, with a modern core financial platform. OneConnect Financial Technology Co., Ltd (OneConnect), the leading Technology-as-a-Service (TaaS) provider and an associate of Ping An Group, today announced an exclusive strategic partnership with Pismo, one of the world’s fastest-growing banking Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firm with momentum in the Americas and Europe. This partnership sees OneConnect’s suite of cutting-edge technological solutions complemented with Pismo’s...
FinTech is Now a Necessity, Heralds the End of In-Person Banking
December 7, 20216 min
Blumberg Capital, a leading early-stage venture capital firm, today announced the results of its fourth annual survey of consumer behavior and attitudes on financial technology, known as fintech. The study, which polled 1,000+ U.S. consumers over the age of 21, revealed a significant shift in how consumers engage with and value fintech solutions. Following pandemic lockdowns, the majority of consumers (66%) now believe that fintech solutions are a necessity for personal finance, not just a...
Salem Five Bank Transitions to Baker Hill NextGen®
November 2, 20215 min
Through the partnership expansion, Salem Five Bank will gain new efficiencies in small business and commercial lending with Baker Hill NextGen® Baker Hill, the leading financial technology provider in delivering solutions for loan origination, risk management, and analytics, today announces an expanded partnership with Salem Five Bank. The bank has upgraded to Baker Hill NextGen®, Baker Hill’s unified solution that streamlines loan origination and portfolio monitoring. Salem Five is a highly regarded community savings bank founded in...
Former American Express OPEN President joins Plastiq
September 23, 20216 min
Plastiq, the leading smart payments platform for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), today announced the appointment of Kerry Hatch as its new President and board member. In her new position, Kerry will play a key role in accelerating the growth of the business by leading the product, engineering, talent, operations, business development, and go-to-market functions at Plastiq. “As an advisor to Plastiq for many years, Kerry is well versed in the goals of our company as well as the financial technology...