May 4, 2024 @ 2:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights says that they mined earnings calls, analyzed business relationships, and dug into investments and acquisitions in order to survey the AI [artificial intelligence] activities of some of the world’s largest companies across industries. For many of the world’s largest companies, AI simply can’t be… Read More

 Tagged ai, cbinsights, research

May 4, 2024 @ 1:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, reported its April 2024 market statistics set a new average daily volume (ADV) record of 26.5 million contracts for the month, up 33% from April 2023, with double-digit growth across all asset classes. Additionally, interest rate, equity index, foreign exchange… Read More

 Tagged cme group, derivatives, milestone, trading

May 4, 2024 @ 11:57 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Feedzai, a provider of anti-fraud and financial crime software, this week appointed David Larson as its new chief financial officer. Founded in 2011, Feedzai’s RiskOps platform protects approximately one billion people, analyzing more than $6 trillion in payments at 3,000 transactions per second to prevent… Read More

 Tagged cfo, David Larson, feedzai, nuno sebastiao, thomson reuters, World-Check

May 4, 2024 @ 10:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and SIX, the Swiss Financial Market Infrastructure Group, announced today the signing of a collaboration agreement during the second edition of the Capital Market Summit. The partnership underscores a shared commitment to exploring and implementing collaborative initiatives “aimed at fostering… Read More

 Tagged dubai, financial market infrastructure, six, switzerland, uae

May 4, 2024 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A majority of small and mid-sized business owners expect their revenues to increase this year, and their worries over a recession have declined substantially, according to the 2024 Bank of America Business Owner Report, conducted in partnership with Bank of America Institute (NYSE: BAC). While… Read More

 Tagged bank of america, research, small businesses, survey

May 4, 2024 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MoonPay now lets users buy and sell crypto funded by PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL). MoonPay’s integration with PayPal reportedly “offers a seamless fiat-to-crypto experience for all PayPal users in the U.S.” MoonPay, the Web3 infrastructure company, has recently announced a collaboration with PayPal that allows MoonPay… Read More

 Tagged Crypto Transactions, digital currencies, moonpay, paypal

May 4, 2024 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ColCap Financial UK Limited and Molo Tech Limited have completed their first securitization, ‘Molossus BTL 2024-1’. The securitization totals £300 million of prime UK buy-to-let mortgage loans “in England and Wales.” It is a Residential Mortgage-Backed Security (RMBS) transaction. ColCap is a privately-owned, Australian non-bank… Read More

 Tagged colcap, molo finance, uk, united kingdom

May 3, 2024 @ 6:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The 2023 LexisNexis True Cost of Fraud Study – Asia Pacific finds that fraud costs APAC-based businesses nearly quadruple the face value lost in fraudulent transactions. In Australia, 66% of companies reported an increase in fraud in the 12 months prior to the survey, while… Read More

 Tagged apac, fraud, Konstantin Poptodorov, Lexis Nexis, lexisnexis risk solutions

May 3, 2024 @ 2:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The American Fintech Council (AFC), an industry association representing Fintech companies, including the largest earned wage access (EWA) providers, has joined with members in a letter to the South Carolina House Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry endorsing legislation to regulate the burgeoning financial service… Read More

 Tagged american fintech council, earned wage access, elizabeth gorz, ewa, Phil Goldfeder, south carolina

May 3, 2024 @ 12:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DailyPay, a leading provider of earned wage access, this week announced that Brett Pitts has joined its board of directors. Pitts, an accomplished leader in the banking and payments industries, brings decades of experience to DailyPay from prominent financial institutions and financial services companies where he drove… Read More

 Tagged BMO Financial, Brett Pitts, dailypay, earned wage access