April 19, 2022
Today in FinTech: Neat Capital Closes B-1; Abhi Secures $17M;...

In today’s FinTech news, Neat Capital is expanding its lending business to help home buyers close fast, while Abhi’s lending business in Pakistan helps people hold on until payday. Plus,...

April 19, 2022
Thunes Snaps up Majority Stake in Compliance Firm Tookitaki

Global payments firm Thunes is acquiring a $20 million majority stake in the anti-money laundering (AML) and compliance platform Tookitaki to drive international growth for both businesses, according to a...

April 19, 2022
Blockchain, Digital Currencies Meeting Need for Financial Innovation

“Nobody knows how cryptocurrency will evolve in 2022, but one thing remains clear,” writes Jonathan Levin, co-founder and chief strategy officer at Chainalysis, in the PYMNTS eBook “Endemic Economics: 32 Payments...

April 19, 2022
The Next 3 Years: P2P Sites Bring Friendly Betting Into...

Gaming won big in 2021, with the American Gaming Association (AGA) declaring it “a new record as the highest-grossing year ever” for U.S. commercial gaming at $53 billion in revenue....

April 18, 2022
Digicel: Mobile Will Drive Payments Innovation in Emerging Markets

Digicel Group CEO Aniqa Sandhu said she thinks it’s high time for emerging economies to get a payments overhaul. Sandhu recently joined Digicel, a mobile phone network and home entertainment...

April 15, 2022
FinCrime Predictions, Trends to Watch

The more things change, the more things stay the same. This has been made abundantly clear in the banking and finance sectors, where the circumstances that have accelerated digital transformations,...

April 15, 2022
TechREG Weekly: Big Tech Turns to Privacy to Mitigate Antitrust...

This was an active week for BigTech, particularly for Apple and Microsoft, both facing new antitrust problems in Europe. In addition, Apple’s CEO once again stated publicly that new regulations...

April 15, 2022
Umba CEO: Emerging Markets’ Legacy Banking Systems Begging for All-In-One...

“The typical legacy bank isn’t a technology company. They are purchasing a core banking system from a vendor that sells to banks around the world.” That statement by Tiernan Kennedy,...

April 14, 2022
Today in Crypto: Lightning Network Payments Volume Increases 400% in...

In a new report, information on how the Lightning Network has grown in popularity highlights how some people need to transfer digital assets globally, Cointelgraph wrote Wednesday (April 13). According...