Banking-as-a-service

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Lendela partners with Revive Financial for debt solutions in Australia

Lendela, Australia’s dominant loan matching platform, today announced a strategic partnership with Revive Financial, Australia’s largest debt relief and management firm. The collaboration aims to empower Australians who struggle to secure loans due to financial distress by offering them tailored debt solutions to regain financial stability.

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Kotapay appoints Heather Schumacher head, cards and BaaS operations

Kotapay is pleased to announce the appointment of Heather Schumacher head of Cards and BaaS Operations. In this role, Heather will lead our credit and debit card operations, as well as deployment and availability of the Kavinu platform.

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Tomorrow introduces savings accounts with Solaris

German sustainable mobile banking provider Tomorrow – a long-term partner of Europe’s leading embedded finance platform Solaris – introduced a new savings account to complement its existing suite of banking products.

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NextGen Nordics 2025 agenda to cover DORA, VoP, CBDC, instant payments, fraud, and GenAI

Give the future of payments the green light at the Münchenbryggeriet in Stockholm, Sweden on 29 April 2025 where the stage will be set for a transformative shift in financial services. NextGen Nordics will gather core decision-makers, stakeholders, and experts within the payments sector to focus on digital resilience, advanced technologies, regulatory frameworks, and set a course of action for the financial ecosystem of tomorrow.

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NCino buys Sandbox Banking

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), the leading provider of intelligent, best-in-class banking solutions, today announced the acquisition of Sandbox Banking, a digital transformation leader serving the financial services industry.

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Rapyd in talks over $300m raise at big valuation cut

Payments-as-a-Service platform Rapyd is in talks to raise $300 million at less than half the valuation it secured in a 2021 funding round, according to Bloomberg.

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Lunar hires Nanna Bergmann to lead BaaS spinoff

Nordic challenger Lunar has appointed The Bank of London's Nanna Bergmann to lead Moonrise, its newly established standalone Banking-as-a-Service entity.

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Solaris clinches €140 million funding round

German Banking-as-a-Service platform Solaris has secured a €140 million financing round.

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Embedded banking startup Swan raises €44 million

French banking-as-a-service platform Swan has raised a further €44 million to support its EU expansion and product diversity strategy.

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American Express pays $230 million for alleged deceptive sales

American Express has agreed to pay $230 million to settle charges for alleged deceptive sales of credit card and wire transfer products to small business customers.

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What Are 'Future Safaris' and The 5 L's to Success?

Joining FinextraTV from CES in Las Vegas, Todder Moning, Head of Applied Foresights, U.S. Bank, shares his insights into the innovations at CES and how they inform his team’s view on the future. From explaining the role of futurists in banking to describing his 5 Ls for success, Moning provides his tips for future-proofing in the financial industry.

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SBI set to take majority stake in Solaris

Japanese financial conglomerate SBI has agreed to pay €100 million for a stake of more than 70% in struggling German Banking-as-a-Service platform Solaris, according to Bloomberg.

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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.

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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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Spendesk embeds with Adyen

Adyen, the financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has today announced its long-term strategic partnership with Spendesk, the complete spend management platform for medium-sized businesses.

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Mastercard collaborates with eNovate on Card-as-a-Service proposition in Egypt

eNovate, formerly eCards, a subsidiary of eFinance Investment Group, has joined forces with Mastercard to bring Card-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution to the Egyptian market.

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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.