Category: Activity

March 24, 2023

U.S. Bancorp (USB) closed at $35.06 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.78% move from the prior day. The stock outpaced the S&P 500’s daily gain of 0.3%. Elsewhere, the Dow gained 0.24%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq added 0.34%. […]

March 23, 2023

The acquisition, expected to close in H1 2023, will build out JP Morgan’s private markets platform for companies, employees and investors. The US multinational says the deal will complement its recent acquisition of Global Shares and the launch of its […]

March 17, 2023

US Bancorp (NYSE: USB), the holding company for US Bank, saw its stock price plummet 15.1% this week from last Friday’s close through 10 a.m. ET today, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. The stock is trading at about $34.50 […]

March 16, 2023

The new offering, which can be integrated into existing checkouts via an API, will enable multinational corporates to provide payment alternatives such as BNPL to their business customers. Hokodo says that through its real-time credit decision process and “highly configurable” […]

March 7, 2023

A class-action lawsuit filed against Bank of America last month claims the bank misrepresented the amount of pandemic aid small business owners were eligible for, leaving firms saddled with unforgivable debt. Three California-based small businesses — Happy Puppy LA, Brandamize […]

February 16, 2023

Through the partnership, Citizens will utilise Paymentus Bill Center and Paymentus Loan Payments, both powered by Paymentus’ instant payments network (IPN). Paymentus Bill Center provides customers a holistic view of all their bills and financial obligations, as well as payment […]

February 16, 2023

Despite the drop, it was still the third-best year for fintech investment ever and the second-best year for deal volume. Global fintech investment dropped by more than 50% in H2 2022 compared to H1 2022, from $119.2 billion to $44.9 […]

February 15, 2023

IDB Bank (IDB), a New York-based private and commercial bank, has announced the expansion of its Sponsor & Leverage Finance team. As part of this expansion, IDB aims to further its presence within the leverage finance space, a key area […]

February 7, 2023

The investment, the financial details of which are undisclosed, marks the company’s return to the South Korean market after its exit in 2021. Announcing the deal, Binance says that in November, Gopax “halted the withdrawal of principal and interest payments […]

February 1, 2023

FNZ acquired Swiss private banking technology firm New Access for an undisclosed sum last year, which provides a scalable and modular “core-to-digital” banking tech suite designed to meet the specific requirements of the private banking and wealth management industry. Bergos […]

January 31, 2023

Ambiguity is a given in the environment many financial institutions find themselves in, as neither stability nor significant growth can be guaranteed. With rising inflation, uninspiring GDP growth, tightening central bank interest rates, turbulent geopolitics, and numerous COVID-19 variants, bankers […]

January 30, 2023

Following the investment, Monument, which is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), says it is looking to expand its product suite and services to cater to the mass-affluent both in the UK and globally. […]

January 25, 2023

The total funding is made up of a mix of revolving credit facility capacity and new term loan funding. The revolving credit facility has been provided by Barclays ($100 million) and Angelo Gordon ($60 million), and the $100 million in […]

January 25, 2023

Will it be tokenisation? The metaverse? A new revolutionary payment mechanism? Or something else more abstract? The opportunities are endless… but one concept dominates the retail banking world and continues to be discussed year in year out: how can banks […]

January 18, 2023

In recent years, there has been an increase in the number of job positions for chief customer experience officers across financial institutions (FI) of all sizes. Those roles were created to help an FI focus outwardly and represent the customers’ […]

January 18, 2023

Reuters reports the firm outlined a pre-tax loss for the unit, which includes its transaction banking, credit card and fintech businesses, of $1.2 billion for the first nine months of 2022. This follows a $1.05 billion loss in 2021 and […]

January 17, 2023

President Joe Biden’s Labor Department recently announced a new rule that will permit money managers to play politics with trillions of dollars of people’s retirement savings. The administration is pushing environmental, social and governance investing, which allows retirement fund managers […]

January 12, 2023

According to the lawsuit, filed in December last year in the US District Court in Delaware, Javice allegedly claimed Frank – a student loan application fintech – had more than 4.25 million student users but had used “synthetic data” techniques […]

January 12, 2023

San Antonio-based Frost Bank prides itself in its ability to offer its customers services they want, Blair McGrain, the bank’s chief marketing officer attests. That’s why the $52.9 billion-asset institution is bringing back a product it hasn’t offered since 2000: […]

January 11, 2023

Writing on LinkedIn, the firm says that due to “challenging times” and despite its best efforts, “we were unable to overcome the market dynamics to raise additional funding”. Ruuky says the decision to file for insolvency “was not taken lightly” […]