Category: digital currencies

Jack Henry Associates (JHA) becomes the fourth core provider to partner with Bitcoin fintech NYDIG, the vendors announced today. NYDIG allows banking customers to buy, hold and sell — but not spend — Bitcoin. Monett, Mo.-based Jack Henry — the second-largest core provider in the U.S. with 18.5% marketshare, according to data firm FI Navigator…

Current launched its platform API today and introduced Plaid as its first partner. The collaboration between Current and Plaid will enable Current members to access digital financial services from more than 6,000 apps and services on the Plaid network. Current earned a valuation of $2.2 billion after securing $220 million in Series D funding last…

LedgerEdge, the trading ecosystem, announced that it is live with a regulated corporate bond trading platform built using distributed ledger technology (DLT), the technology underpinning blockchain ecosystems and digital markets. LedgerEdge is powered by R3’s Corda, a scalable, permissioned peer-to-peer distributed platform that supports applications which foster and deliver digital trust between parties in regulated…

Automation fintech Open Lending’s certified loan volume increased for the sixth consecutive quarter in Q1 as the automation fintech grew its credit union and bank line businesses, expanded its refinance channel partnerships, and extended its indirect lending limits. Total certified loans, or “certs,” in Q1 increased 32% year over year and 3% sequentially to 43,944…

Cryptocurrencies have evolved immensely over the last five years. With adoption rates reaching an all-time high globally, the call for regulation has never been stronger. With this in mind, The Fintech Times spoke to Yulong Liu, MD of global partnerships at Babel Finance to learn about crypto regulation in the APAC region. Babel Finance is…

The internet, both Web1 and Web2, changed our lives in profound ways. Once again we are on the brink of another big change. We are at a point of transition between technological evolutions that are going to change how we play, how we shop, how we hang out with friends, and even how we go…

IT teams adapted to remote working in 2021 really well, so much so that they responded and resolved employee tickets 23 per cent faster than the year before whilst the overall resolution time for IT tickets went down by seven hours.  This is according to the ‘Freshservice Service Management Benchmark‘ report, the findings of which…

The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup on Tuesday brings you the latest fintech news from around the world. Job moves Neil Harris joins Pannovate Bitstamp, the crypto exchange, has named JB Graftieaux as its new global CEO. Graftieaux joined Bitstamp in May 2021 as the company’s Europe CEO and in his new role takes over…

Would you feel bad about investing in a Russian oil company? According to the comparison website finder.com, over half of Brits wouldn’t if they discovered that any of their investments were supporting Russian companies and/or companies operating in Russia. Fifty-four per cent of respondents to the UK-wide study said that investing in companies that support…

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a specialised payments platform, has announced a new global partnership with Playtech (LSE: PTEC), a gambling technology company. The new agreement represents the extension of an existing partnership between the two companies into the UK and Europe from the US, where Playtech offers Paysafe’s payment solutions to iGaming operator customers through its…