ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Skydo, Finora Bank, Okredo, Parfin, and more
Our weekly fintech round-up for you to get the latest funding news from around the world.
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PayZen lands $32m equity investment and $200m credit warehouse in Series B round
PayZen offers an affordability financing platform to help healthcare patients in the US manage medical bills.
Cartoon: Testing times
AI models are still making mistakes as humans do, just different types of ‘dumb’ mistakes.
Demystify Podcast: Demystifying the evolution of trading technology and data centres
In this podcast episode, Dave and Dharm chat with John Bryant of Options Technology and Eleni Coldrey of Equinix.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 13 | Fintech start-ups and navigating the road to sustainable growth
In this podcast episode, we chat with Sam Edge of AWS about the current fintech start-up landscape.
Video: Harnessing AI in financial services with IBM
IBM’s Shanker Ramamurthy and John Duigenan discuss how to overcome the hurdles around AI adoption.
Pagaya set to acquire Silicon Valley’s Theorem Technology for an undisclosed sum
Theorem is an institutional asset manager powered by machine learning technology.
Texas-based TransPecos Banks selects Oscilar’s risk management tech for BaaS compliance
Oscilar has been tapped by the bank for its AI-driven AML Risk Platform solution.
July 2024: Top five AI stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top AI stories from July.
July 2024: Top five M&A deals of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top M&A deals in July.
July 2024: Top five fintech partnership stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top fintech partnership stories of the month.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 12 | The emerging technologies driving innovation in payments
In this podcast episode, we chat with George Maddaloni, CTO of Operations at payments giant Mastercard.
Banking Technology Magazine July / August 2024 issue out now
Cover story: MONEY TALKS – Cash still playing an important role in society.
Robinhood buys AI-powered investment research platform Pluto Capital
The deal comes less than a month after the digital trading platform announced its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp.
Video: FinovateSpring 2024 – what’s hot and what’s not in fintech
We ask three industry professionals what’s hot and what’s not in the fintech sector this year.
The rise of instant payments: protecting consumers from criminals in 10 seconds
How can financial institutions strike a balance between speed and safety with instant payments?
Video: Code and capital – AI as a co-pilot in financial services
Sarah Hinkfuss of Bain Capital Ventures discusses the growing number of use cases for AI in financial services.
June 2024: Top five AI stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top AI stories from June.
Brazil’s Nubank buys AI-powered data intelligence start-up Hyperplane
Nubank plans to harness Hyperplane’s AI expertise to enhance its core machine learning capabilities.
Video: Fintech insights – reimagining the customer experience
Steven Ramirez, CEO at Beyond The Arc, discusses the future of customer experience in financial services.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 10 | Generative AI and cloud core modernisation
In this podcast episode, we chat with Zac Maufe, Head of Regulated Industries at Google Cloud.
PayPal hires Srini Venkatesan as new CTO
Venkatesan succeeds Archie Deskus, who has served as CTO for the past eight months.
Verituity secures $18.8m round led by Forgepoint Capital and Sandbox Industries
Sandbox Industries’ chief Chris Zock is to join Verituity’s board of directors.
We are all living on borrowed time
Together, we can create meaningful change through collective action that can last generations.
The future of fraud detection: how AI revolutionizes your bottom line
Building a proactive fraud shield with AI for unstoppable banking.
The AI Summit: Real world AI
Use cases, pathways and challenges to implementation, and the evolving regulatory frameworks.
What would the Jetsons do?
We already live in the Future. It is here. It is the Present. It is fully formed and at times rather wonderful.
State of play: Money20/20 Europe 2024
Money20/20 Europe was a glimpse into the progress that the fintech industry continues to make.
Money20/20 Europe brings tokenisation, AI and digital transformation into focus
Day one’s proceedings took a specific focus on the topics of AI, tokenisation and digital modernisation journeys.
Data unleashed – five ways COOs can equip their businesses to win the data race
As advances in AI open a new frontier for the investment industry, explore how COOs can capitalise on the advantages technology has to offer.
US paytech start-up Forward lands $16m seed round
Forward aims to collaborate with SaaS firms to increase their revenue by “two to three times”.
May 2024: Top five AI stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top AI stories from May.
AI as the new frontier: empowering credit unions for future growth
How can credit unions leverage AI to help boost deposits and improve loan growth?
May 2024: Top five fintech partnership stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top fintech partnership stories of the month.
Protecting against deepfakes in the era of LLMs
FinTech Futures speaks with FinVolution about how the financial sector can tackle the threat of deepfakes.
FinovateSpring 2024: GenAI and future fraud strategies in focus on day one
Industry leaders convened in San Francisco on Tuesday to kick off FinovateSpring 2024.
Demystify Podcast: The growth of fintech in the UAE – Dubai Fintech Summit special
Dave and Dharm speak with four financial services leaders at this year’s Dubai Fintech Summit.
Cartoon: Working at the edge
Can nature be a guide on how to improve intelligence at the edge of computing networks?
Former Thomson Reuters exec David Larson named Feedzai’s new CFO
Larson previously spent over eight years at Canadian multinational information corporation Thomson Reuters.
State of play: the future of credit
Alternative data sources will be key to ensuring the future of credit is affordable, inclusive, and accessible.
