Month : August 2020

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Remitly Doubles Mobile Wallet Offerings and Global Consumer Reach Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Remitly, the mobile-first provider of remittances and financial services for immigrants, today announced the expansion of its mobile wallet network, which now reaches more than 300 million mobile wallet holders across the world, more than doubling its reach from 160 million earlier this year. Since March, Remitly has added 11......
Affirm Announces Plans For Its First Card with Access to Buy Now, Pay Later
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Affirm and David’s Bridal Partner to Bring Brides a Modern Payment Solution

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Brides Can Now Make Purchases on Their Own Terms with Simple Monthly Payments, No Hidden Fees Affirm, a more flexible and transparent way to pay, today announced its partnership with David’s Bridal, the nation’s leading bridal and special occasion authority. Together, Affirm and David’s Bridal will now enable qualified customers to......
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Millennials and Gen Xers Shaping the Future of Financial Planning by Establishing New Norms with Financial Professionals

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According to a new study from AIG Life & Retirement and the MIT AgeLab, financial clients are expressing a willingness and desire to step beyond traditional conversational boundaries with their financial professionals. This is particularly apparent with younger clients between the ages of 30 and 45 who indicate the most......
Third Generation Exchange Network Goes Live
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Third Generation Exchange Network Goes Live

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Hashflow, a layer 2 protocol to build and operate an emerging generation of CeFi-DeFi hybrid exchanges, launched its alpha today on Ethereum mainnet and announced partnerships with six exchanges across the globe. Exchanges built using the Hashflow protocol combine centralized order-matching and trade execution with the decentralized benefits of trustless......
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First Card Payments Opens Office in Miami’s Financial District

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First Card Payments has opened their headquarters and newest office in the heart of the Miami Financial District, at 1395 Brickell Ave, surrounded by businesses affected by Covid-19. The company promises to offer the same level of service and best pricing in Miami that has made it renowned in South Florida, with the......
Techstars to Partner with ABN AMRO
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Techstars to Partner with ABN AMRO

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Techstars, the global platform for investment and innovation, and ABN AMRO have agreed to a three-year partnership to accelerate innovation through a Techstars accelerator program. The partners will focus on identifying and supporting innovative startups transforming financial services in business and life. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Erwan Gelebart, CEO at Veon’s......
Afterpay Expands Into Canada With American Eagle, Huda Beauty, Roots, Native Shoes Among Many Others
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Afterpay Expands Into Canada With American Eagle, Huda Beauty, Roots, Native Shoes Among Many Others

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Leading Buy Now, Pay Later Service Gives Canadian Shoppers Payment Flexibility and Convenience(Afterpay ) Afterpay, the leader in Buy-Now, Pay-Later payments, announced it is now offering its service to consumers and merchants in the Canadian market. Read More: DataRooms.com Embeds the dtSearch Engine to Enable Instant Searching across Terabytes of......
PayPal launches touch-free payments in-store with iZettle's point of sale app to support UK businesses post-lockdown
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Optus Bank Receives $50 Million in Deposit Funding from PayPal’s Economic Opportunity Fund

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Optus Bank, announced that it is the first bank to establish a relationship with PayPal as part of the payments company’s $530 million commitment to racial justice and economic opportunity. For nearly 100 years, Optus Bank has worked to dismantle structural racism and the disparities it causes by providing equal access......
Leading Insurance Company Adopts Low-Code from Mendix to Accelerate Digital Transformation
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Leading Insurance Company Adopts Low-Code from Mendix to Accelerate Digital Transformation

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Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in low-code application development for the enterprise, announced that VGA, the Dutch insurance company owned by the municipality of Amsterdam, has leveraged the Mendix low-code platform to create ‘VGA Schadeportaal,’ a digital portal for damage claims. Read More: GlobalFintechSeries Interview with Anand Kumar......
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BroadPeak Expands UK Office to Expedite CME Migration

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BroadPeak Partners, the leading purveyor of K3-driven real-time exchange trade data, regulatory and surveillance reporting, is expanding its London office in response to increased European demand. The firm has appointed Henry Rhodes to oversee UK and EU sales. “There are some really important macro factors that make London an excellent......
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