Latest Banking-as-a-service News: Finextra Research

Company update/crypto

Alviere adds crypto products to embedded finance platform

Alviere, the leading global embedded fintech that enables any brand to deliver a full suite of financial products and services to customers, fans and employees, today announced a partnership with Coinbase Prime, a service of Coinbase Global Inc. (NASDAQ: COIN), to provide crypto services into Alviere’s embedded finance platform, The HIVE.

24 March 2022

News/cloud

Mizuho to shift operations to Google Cloud

Japan's Mizuho is to move into the banking-as-a-service market and re-engineer its operations through an alliance with Google Cloud.

23 March 2022

Company update/retail

Solarisbank partners with neobroker fina to launch securities brokerage product

Solarisbank, Europe’s leading Banking-as-a-Service platform, today announced a partnership with Berlin-based neobroker fina to bring its white-label securities brokerage solution to the market.

23 March 2022

Company update/retail

Hawk AI and Weavr to deliver contextual risk management for embedded finance

Hawk AI, Germany’s leading software provider of anti-money laundering surveillance technology for banks, payment firms, and fintechs, today announced a new partnership with Weavr, the technology company that makes it simple for any business to embed financial services into their digital applications.

23 March 2022

Company update/people

Monese appoints Alistair Bennett as chief product officer

Monese, the leading pan-European fintech, today announces the appointment of Alistair Bennett to Chief Product Officer.

22 March 2022

News/cloud

ClearBank raises £175m for global expansion

UK clearing and embedded banking platform ClearBank is eying international expansion after raising £175 million in a financing round led by funds advised by Apax Digital.

21 March 2022

Company update/retail

Aazzur and Treezor form BaaS partnership

Aazzur has signed a sales partnership with European Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) leader Treezor to enable both companies to expand their customer base and strengthen their BaaS offering.

18 March 2022

Company update/regulation

Treezor secures full raft of payment service licences from French regulator

Treezor, the European leader in Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS), obtains authorization from the ACPR to expand its activities and now has all the payment service licenses (from 1 to 8).

15 March 2022

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Cloud, the Critical Component to Power New Business Models

11 March 2022 395 downloads

Company update/people

OpenPayd hires Barry O’Sullivan as head of payments infrastructure

OpenPayd, a leading global payments and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform has today announced the appointment of Barry O’Sullivan as its Head of Payments Infrastructure.

10 March 2022

Company update/payments

Sodexo Engage taps Railsbank for BIN sponsorship

Railsbank, the leading global Embedded Finance Experience platform, is now the BIN sponsor for the Sodexo Engage Spree Card programme.

10 March 2022

News/startups

Italian banking platform for micro entrepreneurs launches

A new digital banking platform is launching in Italy to help micro enterprises and the self-employed with their administration and financial management.

10 March 2022

Research/Banking-as-a-service

Payments Transformation: Emerging Stronger

10 March 2022 913 downloads

News/devops

Finextra partners with Finastra for Hack to the Future 4

Finextra has today announced a partnership with financial services software provider, Finastra, for its annual event, Hack to the Future.

08 March 2022

Company update/retail

Aazzur and Railsbank extend partnership

Innovative Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) integrator AAZZUR has expanded its partnership with leading embedded finance experience platform Railsbank.

03 March 2022

Company update/people

Digital business bank Grasshopper relaunches with new management and tech partnerships

Grasshopper, the client-first digital business bank, today announced the relaunch of its digital banking platform to meet the shifting demands of small businesses and innovators across the country.

03 March 2022

News/cloud

Westpac appoints first BaaS chief

Westpac has appointed Damien MacRae as its first BaaS chief executive, overseeing the Australian lender's efforts to deepen its relationship with non-bank partners looking to embed banking services.

03 March 2022

Company update/startups

Open finance startup Upswing raises $4 million from QED Investors

Upswing Financial Technologies, an open finance B2B ecosystem enabler, founded by ex-bankers Anupam Bagchi and Nihar Gupta, has raised $4 million from marquee global fund QED Investors and a clutch of renowned fintech founders.

28 February 2022

Research/Banking-as-a-service

The Future of Embedded Finance 2022

28 February 2022 1283 downloads

News/wholesale

Hubuc raises $10m for 'AWS of embedded finance'

Barcelona-based Hubuc has become the latest embedded finance player to raise funding, closing a $10 million seed round co-led by WndrCo and Runa Capital.

24 February 2022