Banking-as-a-service

161 articles tagged with this keyword

/payments

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.

/people

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.

/retail

Solaris clinches €140 million funding round

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

/retail

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.

/crime

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.

/retail

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.

/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.

/payments

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.

/retail

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.

/crime

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.

/inclusion

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.

/cloud

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.