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Company update/retail

Oliver Wyman launches plug and play banking and insurance platform

Oliver Wyman Digital today announced the launch of Edge, a digital platform with Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and Insurance-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions to help incumbent banks and digital challengers accelerate their digital ventures and elevate their customer experience.

24 January 2022

News/retail

Indian embedded finance firm M2P aims for global growth on $56 million funding round

Indian embedded finance firm M2P has raised $56 million to expand its suite of API-based services internationally.

20 January 2022

Company update/payments

Netbank switches on BaaS service in the Philippines

Netbank, the banking as a service platform, has launched a service that allows international payment companies to support trade and transactions in the Philippines.

18 January 2022

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Open Banking Europe 2022 - What’s next for Open Banking?

18 January 2022 1330 downloads

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Will banks use digital security as a post-pandemic differentiator?

17 January 2022 376 downloads

Company update/people

Paddle appoints Andrew Davies as CMO

Paddle, the provider of a complete payments infrastructure for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, today announces the appointment of Andrew Davies as Chief Marketing Officer as the company continues to build out its leadership team to pursue its global ambitions.

10 January 2022

Company update/payments

Contis adds Ecospend to banking-as-a-service platform

Ecospend, the leading UK provider of Open Banking technology, has today announced that it is partnering with Contis, the leading pan European Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider.

10 January 2022

Company update/payments

Embedded finance company Rupifi raises $25m Series A

Rupifi, India’s 1st Embedded Finance company which operates in the B2B Payments space through its B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and SME focused Commercial Card products, has raised a $25M Series-A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Tiger Global. Existing Investors Quona Capital and Ankur Capital also participated in this round, along with Better Capital. Founded in 2020 by Anubhav Jain, Ankit Singh and Jawaid Iqbal, this is Rupifi’s second investment round within a span of 9 months, since its Pre-Series A in March 2021.

07 January 2022

Research/Banking-as-a-service

The Future of Digital Banking in Asia 2022

22 December 2021 1017 downloads

Company update/retail

Friz aligns with MatchMove on neobank for freelancers

Friz, the Singapore-based financial platform for freelancers in Southeast Asia has partnered with embedded finance platform MatchMove, to power their users’ wallets with seamless and convenient financial services.

15 December 2021

Company update/people

Chris Weller Joins fintech SaaS Platform Toqio as commercial director for UK and Europe

FinTech SaaS provider Toqio has appointed Chris Weller as Commercial Director UK and Europe.

15 December 2021

Company update/retail

Mambu fundraise pushes valuation to $4.9bn

Mambu, a market-leading, modern SaaS banking platform, has announced raising €235 million in an EQT Growth-led Series E funding round, the largest financing round to date for a banking software platform.

09 December 2021

News/wholesale

Funding Circle moves into embedded finance

Funding Circle has moved into the embedded finance market, providing third party firms with a single API to offer loans of up to £500,000 to small businesses within their own website.

02 December 2021

News/startups

UK's sixth clearing bank set to launch with $1.1 billion valuation

The Bank of London is set to enter the UK's clearing market with a pre-revenue valuation of $1.1 billion and plans to recruit 3000 staff over the five years.

30 November 2021

Company update/payments

Ingenico joins payments-as-a-service movement

Ingenico, a Worldline brand [Euronext: WLN], announces the full commercial launch of PPaaS, its Payments Platform as a Service solution to its clients and partners. Built on a completely new cloud-based technology stack, PPaaS is a key component in the evolution of the Point of Sale (POS) into an ecosystem enabler.

29 November 2021

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Don’t go extinct - How Wealth Managers can remain relevant

29 November 2021 336 downloads

Company update/payments

Unit taps Currencycloud for cross-border payments

Unit, the New York-based banking-as-a-service platform (BaaS), has partnered with Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, to offer their customers an easy, seamless way to fulfill both domestic and international banking needs.

25 November 2021

Company update/people

Dafna Martin Beltran joins Toqio as head of sales for new markets

FinTech SaaS provider Toqio has today announced the appointment of Dafna Martin Beltran as Head of Sales for New Markets.

25 November 2021

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Building the Road to a Hybrid Cloud Future

24 November 2021 252 downloads

Company update/payments

Contis launches in Germany

Contis, a leading Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider in Europe, has today announced the expansion of its offering in Germany following its partnership with NAGA.

23 November 2021