Mastercard Releases a New Mobile Virtual Card for Digital Wallets
Card payments giant, Mastercard, has announced releasing a new mobile virtual card that allows people to add virtual commercial cards to digital wallets. This innovative digital app seeks to give financial institutions more flexibility in delivering secure and sustainable contactless...
Clearstream to Acquire a Minority Stake in Digital Vault Services
Clearstream, a post-trade division for Deutsche Börse, is planning to invest in Digital Vault Services (DVS), as it plans to expand its offerings in digitizing financial services. Deutsche Börse is one of the largest exchange operators in Europe. The planned...
Tastytrade Becomes the Exclusive Brokerage Platform for Unusual Whales
Tastytrade, an online brokerage platform created by traders and targeting self-directed investors has announced an exclusive partnership deal with options platform, Unusual Whales. Tastytrade seeks to leverage the transparency offered by Unusual Whales to expand its offerings and assist traders...
Wagestream Raises £17.5M to Expand Service Offerings
Wagestream, a financial wellbeing app that streamlines how employees receive their salaries has announced raising £17.5 million in a funding round. The funding round was led by British Patient Capital which invested £7 million in the company. The other investors...
Alpha Group Wants To Move Its Listing from AIM To the LSE’s Main Market
Alpha Group, a fintech company based in the UK, has applied to move its listing to the main market at the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The fintech consultancy firm seeks this move as part of its expansion plan. The firm...
Amazon Ditches Just Walk Out Technology for US Fresh Stores
Amazon is ditching the Just Walk Out Technology in its Fresh grocery stores in the United States. However, the tech giant asserts that it is not giving up on the technology behind this offering. The Just Walk Out technology offers...
Monetary Authority of Singapore Launches COSMIC to Support Information Sharing
The Monetary Authority Singapore has announced the launch of COSMIC. The latter is a centralized digital platform looking to help financial institutions share customer information to address the risks of money laundering, terrorism financing, and proliferation financing. The MAS said...
Rakuten Group and Rakuten Group Sign MOU to Consolidate Financial Units
Rakuten, one of the largest financial conglomerates in Japan, has announced plans to consolidate its fintech operations into a single and consolidated platform. The plan announced by Rakuten seeks to boost synergy while also streamlining the efforts of acquiring new...
J.P. Morgan’s Wealth Plan Enables Chase Customers To Craft One Million Plans
Morgan Wealth Management’s Wealth initiative has enabled users to craft over 1 million personalized plans, reaching this achievement within a year since its debut. Wealth Plan, accessible for free in the Chase Mobile app on Chase.com, is a digital money...
Westpac Reveals Technology Upgrade With Billions
Westpac, an Australian financial institution, has revealed its plan to inject billions of dollars into the simplification of its technology infrastructure. This major project is expected to be completed in the next four years. This will enhance customer outcomes and...
Banks Advised To Include AI In Risk Management Strategies
An announcement from the United States Treasury has advised banks to strengthen their risk management practices to prevent being engulfed by AI-driven cybercriminals and fraudsters. The report, which was called for by an executive order by Joe Biden last year,...
Interactive Brokers Records Strong Market Activity With 17% March DARTs Surge
Interactive Brokers has presented its monthly performance results for March 2024, indicating performance differences. The brokerage company revealed 2.412 million daily average revenue trades (DARTs), signifying an upsurge of 17% and a drop of 1% from the preceding month. The...
Paynetics Buys UK Neobank Novus to Focus on ESG Offerings
Paynetics, one of the leading financial service providers, has announced the acquisition of a UK-based neobank known as Novus. Paynetics’ acquisition of Novus comes as the financial company sets its sights on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. Besides focusing...
Westpac Commences a Technology Overhaul to Upgrade Its Systems
Australian bank Westpac is planning to spend billions of dollars over four years to upgrade its technological infrastructure. The bank has been dealing with years of slow technological infrastructure. In its planned overhaul, the bank plans to bring all its...
EU Banks Discouraged By Short Deadline to Offer Instant Payment Services
Banks operating in the European Union have until January 2025 to provide instant payment services. The new guidelines are affecting a majority of banks in the UK. A third of EU banks currently do not provide instant payment services, and...


