Banking-as-a-service

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/retail

Railsr and Equals Group set for £283m merger

The long-trailed merger of embedded banking platform Railsr and payments firm Equals Group is set to go ahead through a £283 million takeover deal.

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Lunar creates standalone enterprise payments business

Nordic challenger bank Lunar is stepping up its BaaS efforts, shifting its banking services division into a new standalone entity called Moonrise.

/retail

Synapse fallout: partner banks face lawsuit

The fallout from the collapse of Synapse continues, with several partner banks facing a lawsuit alleging mishandling of customer funds, and one of those banks insisting that end user funds it once held were moved by the BaaS platform before it went bankrupt.

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Troubled fintech Solaris in search of fresh funding

German banking-as-a-Service platform Solaris is reportedly seeking an emergency cash injection of £100 million and will put the business up for sale if it fails to raise fresh funds.

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Finastra investigates data breach, prioritising customer communication

Fintech firm Finastra has shared further detail on the investigation process following a data breach that occurred earlier this month.

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Sunshine+Kittens is set on revolutionising financial education for kids

Finextra spoke to co-founder Charles O’Neil and CMO Dan Walsh, of new financial literacy app, Sunshine+Kittens, which is set to launch early next year.

/payments

Morgan Stanley invests $20m in NovoPayment

Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital has invested $20 million in embedded financial and payment infrastructure service provider NovoPayment.

/retail

Solaris offloads Engage business in the UK to Suits Me

German Banking-as-a-Service company Solaris has sold its Engage business from Contis to UK alternative banking provider Suits Me.

/cloud

Standard Bank picks Volante for Africa-wide payments overhaul

African giant Standard Bank is moving its payments infrastructure to Volante's cloud Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS), accelerating ISO 20022 adoption on the continent.

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Green Dot launches embedded finance brand

Digital bank and fintech provider Green Dot has launched an embedded finance brand and platform of services.

/people

Solaris to lay off a third of workforce

German Banking-as-a-Service company Solaris is set to lay off a third of its workforce with the majority of job losses hitting its British subsidiary Contis.

/retail

HSBC writes off Monese stake

HSBC has written off its stake in Monese just two years after investing $35 million in the mobile banking fintech.

/startups

TrueLayer reports growth despite losses

TrueLayer, a payments platform backed by Stripe, is stacking up its losses according to the latest accounts reports.

/wealth

BlackRock joins Fintech Scotland

The world's largest asset manager, BlackRock, has announced its membership of Fintech Scotland, the promotional for the country's fintech sector.

/startups

Revolut’s Storonsky sells $300 million in company stock

Founder and chief exec at fintech giant Revolut, Nik Storonsky, has reportedly sold shares worth up to $300 million (£230 million) in the company.

/retail

UniCredit to acquire Banking-as-a-Service venture Vodeno and Belgian digital bank Aion

Italy's UniCredit has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the entire share capital of European Banking-as-a-Service platform Vodeno and Belgian digital bank Aion.

/startups

Brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets raises €12m

Berlin-based brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets has raised €12 million in a funding round led by CommerzVentures.

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BaaS startup Connect Money raises $8 million

Egyptian Banking-as-a-Service startup Connect Money has closed an $8 million seed funding round led by Disruptech Ventures and Algebra Ventures.

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Chift raises seed funding to help SaaS companies build integrations

Chift, a Belgian startup that helps SaaS companies integrate with other financial applications and tools via APIs, has raised €2.3 million in seed funding.

/payments

EBAday 2024: Navigating the oxymoron of cross-border real time payments

The second day of EBAday 2024 in Lisbon kicked off with exciting panel sessions discussing real-time payments.