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Routefusion Secures $3.6 Million in Funding to Expand Cross-Border Payments Platform
Despite sweeping changes across all areas of financial services, cross-border payments in the US have remained relatively untouched. Now, armed with new funding, Routefusion seeks to finalise its product and form the necessary partnerships to disrupt a $224 billion category. Earlier this week, Austin-based fintech Routefusion announced it has secured $3.6 million in seed funding from venture […]
Finch Capital Targets European Fintech Companies with €150 million Fund
The fund will invest in European technology companies with €2 million to €5 million in revenues. Finch Capital, a leading venture capital firm with a presence in the UK and Netherlands, announced the first close of Europe III, its €150 million investment fund, to invest in the European fintech companies working on technologies like Artificial Intelligence. […]
Meet Aaron – Digital Source Internal Interview
Introducing you to a new DS team member every two weeks, we’re excited to announce another release from our Internal Interview series! This week, we chatted with our Senior Technical Recruitment Consultant and recent addition to the team – Aaron Morgan-Bonner. Dive into our catch-up below, as we talk about changes in the recruitment landscape, […]
Meet Aaron – Digital Source Internal Interview
Introducing you to a new DS team member every two weeks, we’re excited to announce another release from our Internal Interview series! This week, we chatted with our Senior Technical Recruitment Consultant and recent addition to the team – Aaron Morgan-Bonner. Dive into our catch-up below, as we talk about changes in the recruitment landscape, […]
Klarna opens first bank account; eyes $500 million fund raise
Buy now, pay later pioneer Klarna is launching its first consumer banking account in Germany.A Klarna bank account will come with a Visa debit card which can also be connected to both Google Pay and Apple Pay. Users will also be able to use budgeting tools available via the Klarna app to track, categorize and […]
Climate First Bank develops green banking with Finastra
Based in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area in Florida, Climate First Bank (CFB) is positioning itself as “the only [bank founded] to fight climate change.” As such, it is committed to not only providing best-in-class banking services but also environmentally-conscious investment programmes and an “unrivalled solar loan option.” Furthermore, CFB will be carbon neutral upon commencing operations, it […]
A new frontier for fintech in 2021
What a challenging yet extraordinary year 2020 was. We started the year full of high hopes and expectations for the new decade, with the concepts of ‘pandemic’, ‘lockdowns’ and ‘remote working’ being far beyond our imagination. The global business impact following the pandemic has been significant to say the least. Businesses in the travel and […]
New cooperation: IDnow and M-TRIBES offer mobility solutions with AI-based digital identification
Munich and Hamburg, February 9th, 2021 – IDnow (www.idnow.io), a leading provider for Identity Verification-as-a-Service solutions and M-TRIBES, end-to-end software provider for transportation companies, announce their strategic collaboration. As part of the partnership, M-TRIBES integrates IDnow’s digital, AI-based identification solution into itsplatform to provide legally required customer identifications – quick, reliable and userfriendly.M-TRIBES integrates IDnow […]
Is Asia leading the fintech revolution in banking?
Asia has grown into one of the hotspots of the fintech revolution. The large unbanked population and its openness to new technologies drive the proliferation of the fintech ecosystem. All over Asia Financial technology or fintech are catching on. From fast-growing young economies, such as China and India, to mature markets, such as Australia and […]
What Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down means for fintech
Jeff Bezos will step down as founder and CEO of Amazon and transition to chairman in 2021, allowing seasoned cloud executive Andy Jassy to take the reins of the $1.6 trillion giant. As detailed in an email to his employees, Bezos will focus his “energies and attention on new products and early initiatives,” suggesting that the […]