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INX to Become First Platform to List In-cask Liquor and Gaming Tokens and Brings German Real Estate to The U.S.

The regulated digital asset platform announces plans to list whiskey maker Wave Kentucky Whiskey 2020 Digital Fund LLC, Germany-based real estate company KlickOwn AG, and MMO gaming title Infinite Fleet NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#bitcoin—INX Limited, the blockchain-based platform for trading digital securities and cryptocurrencies, announces future plans to list three projects in alcohol, real estate, and […]

Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Revance Therapeutics to Relocate Global Headquarters to Nashville

Silicon Valley biotechnology innovator in aesthetics, therapeutics and financial technology Company will invest more than $10 million in Nashville operations Project will create nearly 150 jobs over five years NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe and Revance Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RVNC) officials announced today that the company […]

The Promise Homes Company and Esusu Announce Partnership to Provide Residents with Free Credit Building and Reporting Services

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Promise Homes Company, one of the largest minority-led, institutional-quality owners of single-family residential rental property in the U.S., and Esusu, the leading fintech company providing rental data into credit bureaus on behalf of landlords, announced today a partnership that will benefit Promise Homes residents by reporting on-time rental payments to the credit bureaus […]

Neo Financial Raises $50 Million in Series A Funding and Debt Financing

Fintech startup raises one of the largest Series A rounds in Western Canada amidst unprecedented year CALGARY, Alberta–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Neo Financial (Neo), a technology company created by two of the co-founders of SkipTheDishes, announced it has completed a $25 million Series A fundraising round alongside $25 million in debt facility financing, bringing this funding round […]

InterGen Data and Brandeis International Business School Launch COVID-19 Comorbidity Dashboard

Interactive tool uses demographic data from 8.4 million records to predict the potential for Hospitalization, ICU Admittance, and Death PLANO, Texas & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ArtificialIntelligence—InterGen Data, Inc., a leading provider of Life Event Data, analytics, and predictive modeling, is collaborating with graduate students at Brandeis International Business School to analyze and identify the impact of COVID-19 […]

After Backing Companies Worth More Than $6 Billion With Initial Fund, Ross Fubini’s XYZ Venture Capital Debuts $80 Million Fund II for Early-Stage Investments

XYZ’s unique approach helps startups transform tech-forgotten industries and enables fintech and enterprise startups to go faster SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, XYZ Venture Capital opened up about its mission, model and team for the first time when announcing its second fund. Building on the success of Fund I, which made early investments in companies now worth […]

Morningstar and iShares Join Forces to Lead the Industry in Style Investing

New Morningstar Broad Style Indexes to be tracked by iShares ETFs Enhanced iShares ETFs will reflect iconic Morningstar Style Box™, and are designed to deliver innovation, quality, and value CHICAGO & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In a commitment to reinvent the $3.0 trillion style investing market for U.S. equities, Morningstar and iShares are joining forces. Morningstar, Inc. […]

ModusBox and Mountain State Software Solutions Officially Add DataSonnet to Apache Camel

Apache Camel merges DataSonnet – an open source data transformation standard – into its release version 3.7. SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#banking–We are very happy to announce that Apache Camel has merged DataSonnet into its latest release, version 3.7. DataSonnet is an open source JSON-centric, template-based data transformation standard built to rival proprietary options available in the market. […]

Origami Risk Unveils New Online Tools for Employers to Track COVID-19 Vaccinations, Monitor Workplace Outbreaks

As Vaccines Roll-Out, Leading Risk Software Firm Brings Timely Solutions To Heathcare Providers, Nursing Homes, Employers in All Sectors CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AI–Origami Risk, the industry-leading risk, safety and insurance Software as a Service (SaaS) technology firm, today announced it has developed new online solutions for healthcare providers, nursing homes and employers in all sectors to track […]

Radius Bank Launches Enhanced Online Banking and Mobile App Experience for Small Business Clients

BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#bestonlinebank—Radius Bank, a forward-thinking digital bank, announced today the recent launch of its enhanced online business banking platform and mobile app for small business clients. The overhauled user experience was the result of the bank’s continued partnership with NYC-based financial technology company Narmi, which also powers Radius’ consumer online banking and companion mobile app. […]

CyberLink Will Showcase New FaceMe® eKYC and Fintech Solutions at CES 2021

The company will also exhibit the latest updates to its industry-leading FaceMe® SDK, as well as its highly praised pandemic control and access security software solutions FaceMe® Health and FaceMe® Security TAIPEI, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CyberLink—CyberLink Corp. (5203.TW), a pioneer in AI and facial recognition technologies, will showcase new applications of its state-of-the-art FaceMe® technology for the […]

IDEMIA Awarded in AFI’s 2020 Inclusive Fintech Showcase

COURBEVOIE, France–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The company was one of 12 finalists in the showcase, which recognizes solutions for their capacity to support disadvantaged groups, advance financial inclusion, and mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. IDEMIA has been awarded second place in the 2020 AFI Inclusive Fintech Showcase for its digital identity solution for disadvantaged groups. The […]

PRODUCT UPDATE: iShares Morningstar U.S. Equity Style Box ETFs

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BlackRock today announced a series of product enhancements to the iShares Morningstar U.S. Equity Style Box ETFs. The changes to each of the nine funds outlined below are expected to be implemented no earlier than March 19, 2021. Current ticker New ticker Current fund name New fund name Current investment objective New investment […]

Deel Becomes a Market Leading International Payroll Company

Engages J.P. Morgan for foreign exchange and payments expertise to support global growth SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fueled by the current environment, companies are realizing the benefits of remote work. This significant shift can not only improve employees’ quality of life, but also help companies access a larger pool of talent, while curbing operational costs. As an […]

Access Softek Teams Up with Ondot Systems to Provide Engaging Digital Card Services to Banks and Credit Unions

BERKELEY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Access Softek, Inc., an omnichannel digital banking platform provider, announced it has partnered with Ondot Systems (San Jose, Calif.) to bring Card App’s engaging digital card services to financial institutions via Access Softek’s digital banking platform as a reseller. Ondot’s Card App supports both debit and credit cards within a single app and […]

Pacific Premier Bancorp Announces the Conversion of Pacific Premier Trust’s Wealth Business Operating System to SEI Wealth Platform

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$PPBI #PPBI–Pacific Premier Bancorp, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPBI), the holding company of Pacific Premier Bank (“Pacific Premier”, “the Bank”), announced today that Pacific Premier Trust, a division of Pacific Premier, will convert its wealth business operating system to the SEI Wealth PlatformSM (“SWP”) during the first half of 2021. Pacific Premier Trust’s decision to […]

ED&F Man Capital Markets and Vela Collaborate on US Equities and Equity Options Execution Offering

Vela adds ED&F Man Capital Markets’ smart order routing to its execution platforms to deliver tailored cross-asset market access solutions for algorithmic and quantitative traders NEW YORK & CHICAGO & LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#AlgoTrading—Vela, a leading independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, announces that it is now offering execution services for […]

Alpian Selects Temenos SaaS to Launch Pioneering New Digital Bank and Take Swiss Private Banking Experience to the Mass Affluent

Alpian will offer digital private banking and wealth management services, combined with human expertise, to tap into CHF 660bn private banking opportunity With Temenos SaaS, the new Swiss digital bank will achieve rapid time-to-market and a hyper-efficient cost model to deliver scalable, personalized private banking via an easy-to-access app Temenos is the de facto technology […]

Wealth Management Platform Vestrata Launches With $4 Million Funding Round Led by Industry Veterans

Vestrata is a unique platform backed by significant investment from industry insiders Founding team comprises senior executives from world’s biggest firms including J.P. Morgan, UBS, Credit Suisse, Barclays, HSBC, and MSCI Addresses many of the key challenges facing the wealth management industry today by enhancing client engagement LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vestrata, a fintech company providing integrated investment […]

F/m Acceleration Partners with Clearwater Analytics for Leading-Edge Technology and Operations Platform for Asset Managers

Partnership Unites Innovative Technology and Growth Platforms for Asset Managers WASHINGTON & BOISE, Idaho–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#assetmanagement–F/m Acceleration LLC (www.fmacceleration.com), a growth platform for boutique, lift-out and overseas asset managers, announced its formal partnership with Clearwater Analytics, one of the world’s leading comprehensive technology platforms for investment accounting and analytics (www.clearwater-analytics.com). F/m empowers growth and independence for […]

American Family Insurance Expands Walk-in Payment Options for Cash-preferred Customers with CheckFreePay from Fiserv

American Family customers can make insurance payments at more than 30,000 locations BROOKFIELD, Wis.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that American Family Insurance, a Fortune 300 multi-line insurance company, is accepting payments via the more than 30,000 CheckFreePay® locations nationwide, allowing its customers to make […]

Small Businesses and CPA Firms Should Be Readying for New Round of PPP Relief Funds, AICPA and CPA.com Say

AICPA Urges Swift Passage of Additional Business Relief NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–As Congress weighs renewed economic stimulus, CPA firms should be gearing up to assist small businesses whose survival depends on a new round of funding under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and its business and technology arm, CPA.com, recommend. […]

Mozper Raises $3.55M Seed Round Three Months After Launching In Mexico Bringing Their Total Funding To $5.1M

Round Led by Hetz Ventures with participation from F-Prime Capital and Foundation Capital. Use of proceeds to scale the team, penetrate Mexico and launch Brazil. MEXICO CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mozper, the debit card and app designed for kids and parents in Latin America, announces the closing of a $3.55M Seed round, led by Hetz Ventures with participation […]

TruDecision Partners with CIG Financial to Drive Auto Loan Growth

IRVING, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#autofinance–TruDecision, Inc. (TruDecision) announced today that their advanced analytic platform will be deployed by CIG Financial (CIG) to pursue improved performance and an enhanced dealer experience. CIG will leverage TruDecision’s Expert Auto Score in order to offer an increased number of competitively priced approvals. TruDecision offers the first of its kind analytic platform […]

EMTECH Launches as the Fintech of Modern Central Banking Innovation

EMTECH partners with Microsoft to deploy the Modern Central Bank Sandbox™, equipping central banks with an innovation mindset and an innovation toolset NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#aml–Today EMTECH announced its pilot-ready innovation and regulatory compliance platform, the Modern Central Bank Sandbox™, targeting central banks looking to streamline regulatory reviews, collaborate with innovators on emerging technology, or safely […]

Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak’s New Ambition Kicks Off on HBTC.com

SINGAPORE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Steve Wozniak, Apple’s co-founder, is dedicated to developing a new blockchain project called Efforce. With the purpose of funding energy-efficient projects, Efforce recently launched its token WOZX on HBTC.com, a 100% Token Holder Owned Trading Platform. The cooperation between a high-tech team backed by Wozniak and a leading team from the blockchain industry has […]

Market Opportunity Analysis Helps a Financial Services Provider Devise a Strong Market Entry Plan and Achieve Substantial Savings | Infiniti’s Recent Client Engagement

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Canadianfinancialservices–Scaling and expansion is the ideal path to growth in every industry, and financial services industry players have started to access and enter new markets recently. Additionally, with the rise of digitization and the increasing number of new-age innovations in the industry, there are many new opportunities available to financial services providers. These opportunities […]

ixFintech Group’s New DAEM Landing at Cyberport, Hong Kong

HONG KONG–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, ixFintech Group announced that its new product, the Digital Asset Exchange Machine (DAEM), is now landing at Cyberport, Hong Kong*, making available for the Cyberport community to do its first-round trial. The machine enables the Cyberport community and visitors to learn and experience and purchasing and selling digital assets using cash and […]

SmartMetric the Maker of Biometric Secured Credit and Debit Cards Is to Introduce a Stable Crypto Currency Key Storage on Its Biometric Card Platform

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#ameritrade–SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME) — In light of the payments and credit card industry move into adopting crypto currency technology to facilitate payments, SmartMetric has now moved forward its planned release of its crypto key storage technology for use with credit and debit cards. “For a number of years we have been working […]

CoreLogic’s Property Data Now Available on Amazon Web Services Data Exchange

AWS customers can now simply and quickly access CoreLogic’s property data IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Foreclosure–CoreLogic® (NYSE: CLGX), a leading global property data and analytics-driven solutions provider, today announced the availability of their data on AWS Data Exchange, a service from Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes it easy to find, subscribe to and use third-party data […]

Vouched Announces $3M Funding Round to Accelerate AI-Based Identity Verification Platform

Led by Flying Fish Partners, with participation from Bankers Healthcare Group, funds will fuel expansion in banking, fintech and healthcare industries. SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Vouched, a rapidly-growing developer of proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision for end-to-end identity verification and real-time fraud detection, today announced a $3M funding round. Led by Flying Fish Partners, the round will […]

NIC Enables Residents to Pay Property Taxes with Cash via CheckFreePay® Despite COVID-19 Office Closings

Cash payment option has rolled out in Arkansas with opportunities to expand nationwide OLATHE, Kan.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–With government offices closed due to COVID-19, residents preferring to pay property taxes with cash have been left without many options. Leading digital government solutions firm NIC is striving to change that. An in-person payment option will be made available […]

Emory’s Goizueta Business School Increases Access to Graduate Courses for “Non-Enrolled” Professionals

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Emory University’s Goizueta Business School has announced it will make 19 MBA courses available to professionals who are not enrolled as Goizueta MBA students. The offerings are elective courses from Goizueta’s Evening MBA and Executive MBA programs and span topics including accounting, finance, marketing, general management, operations, and information systems. Emory Executive Education has […]

LifeYield Upgrades Tools for Advisors and Enterprise Clients to Command Greater Wallet Share and New Business

Householding tech leader expands API support for complex accounts alongside improved advisor reporting and annuity analysis BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–LifeYield LLC today announces several software updates for its enterprise and direct to advisor clients to aid in quantifying and improving investor outcomes for investor household portfolios, and advisor practice management effectiveness and efficiency. LifeYield’s API library, which […]

Paysign and ImmunoTek Collaborate in Support of COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Collection

Partnership Focuses on Motivating Recovered Plasma Donors for Development of New Therapeutic HENDERSON, Nev. & NEW ORLEANS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#PaysignNews–Paysign, Inc. (NASDAQ: PAYS), a leading provider of prepaid card programs, digital banking services, and payment processing, along with ImmunoTek Bio Centers LLC, a growing biotech company focused on source plasma collection, today announced their successful efforts to […]

Temenos Wins Business Culture Award for its Response and Support for Banks during Covid-19

Temenos recognized for ‘Best Business Culture in a Crisis’ at the prestigious Business Culture Awards 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that it won the Business Culture Award 2020 for ‘Best Business Culture in a Crisis’. The prestigious awards celebrate forward-thinking companies that have created outstanding work-environments, enabling their […]

DGCX Selects Cigniti Technologies as Strategic Quality Assurance Service Provider

DALLAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Cigniti–The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) has selected Cigniti Technologies – a global leader in independent quality engineering and software testing services – as its strategic Quality Assurance service provider as the Exchange seeks to upgrade its technology platform. Cigniti will provide the DGCX Group with quality testing on a number of marketplace […]

iProov Announces Record Growth In 2020

The British biometric authentication company has announced significant increases in customers, revenue and users since 2019 LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–iProov, world leaders in secure biometric authentication technology, has today announced a record year of growth across the company. In the 12 months since November 2019, iProov has more than doubled its customer base, more than doubled its […]

New Relic Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Pixie Labs, a Next Generation Machine Intelligence Observability Solution for Developers Using Kubernetes

Pixie Labs to expand New Relic’s opportunity in the rapidly growing Kubernetes market SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#Kubernetes–Today, New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), a leader in observability, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Pixie Labs, a next generation machine intelligence observability solution for developers using Kubernetes. Pixie dramatically simplifies the process of troubleshooting and […]

The NAGA Group AG: Growth path continues, record transactions and volumes in the current Q4. Hauck & Aufhäuser starts coverage and gives NAGA a ‘BUY’ rating and a target price of EUR 5.90.

– Trading volume in ongoing Q4 at a record level – New record of transactions in November – NAGA Pay launched with millions in transaction volume HAMBURG, Germany–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The NAGA GROUP (XETRA: N4G, ISIN: DE000A161NR7), provider of the social network for financial market trading NAGA.com, reports sustained growth at a high level in the months […]