Category: Doing Business Overseas

SecureSave raised $11 million in strategic funding this week, taking its total capital raised to $1.7 million. The Kirkland, Washington-based company offers workplace-based emergency savings accounts. SecureSave made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateSpring. SecureSave, a new workplace savings program provider that made its Finovate debut last year at FinovateSpring 2021, has secured $11…

Australia P2P lender SocietyOne is adding new checking and savings accounts, SpendOne and SaveOne. SocietyOne is leveraging Westpac’s banking-as-a-service platform to offer the new accounts. Today’s news comes three months after SocietyOne was acquired by alternative lender MONEYME. It’s 2022 and digital banking is in the air. P2P lending platform SocietyOne is among the many…

Fiserv announces 9 deals, including $991M US Metro Bank Core provider Fiserv revealed it has signed multiple new banks during the first quarter, including $991 million U.S. Metro Bank, based in Garden Grove, Calif., which chose its Premier banking platform. Meanwhile, the $1 billion Plains Commerce Bank renewed its Precision core from Fiserv in Q1.…

Core provider Jack Henry is offering a way to ensure financial institutions can select vendors that align with their required levels of risk and compliance.  The Vendor Management Program integrates into Jack Henry’s Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Suite, and runs an automated risk assessment on banks’ external service providers, IT vendors and related third…

Arteria AI will automate contract lifecycle management for Citi and expand its footprint on the back of an undisclosed investment. Arteria AI, a Toronto-based fintech that spun off from Deloitte in 2020, provides automated contract lifecycle management (CLM) services for banks, credit unions and financial institutions. The fintech maintains a client base that consists of…

Canadian fintech further expands its network in Latin America to deliver cross-border payments to eight countries and half a billion people. Buckzy Payments, a real-time cross-border payments network, has announced it has extended its payments network throughout Central and South America. The Buckzy network now covers eight countries in the LATAM region – Argentina, Brazil,…

The acceptance of cryptocurrency as a payment method is gradually becoming more and more mainstream. The days of it being a niche investment are gone – this is in large part to forward thinkers and innovators outside of the financial space looking to integrate accept digital currencies.  The change in attitude towards cryptocurrencies is only…