The SEC has not had a great track record in court cases against crypto firms in the last few months. And another important case is playing out right now in a New York federal courtroom.
Back in June of last year the SEC sued Coinbase arguing that it was operating illegally and that it should register as an exchange and be overseen by the SEC.
Fintech Nexus Newsletter (January 2, 2024): HSBC’s Zing to take on Wise, Revolut in foreign exchange
HSBC has announced Zing, a new retail-focused service offering inexpensive foreign exchange.
The large banks. particularly in Europe, have mainly looked on with envy as startups like Wise and Revolut have built large businesses on the back of offering cheap foreign exchange to tens of millions of retail customers.
Savings and investing fintech Acorns has been relatively quiet since it acquired the UK neobank for kids, GoHenry, six months ago. Now...
Anyway you slice it, we have not been doing a good job in stopping money laundering.
It is estimated that we only catch 1-2% of all illicit money flowing through the banking system. Yet as an industry, we spend many billions of dollars in this fight.
TransUnion, one of the big three credit bureaus, has launched a new data analytics platform called OneTru.
The new platform will offer banks and fintechs AI and ML tools for addressing a variety of credit, anti-fraud and marketing needs.
Today, Visa announced a new suite of payments capabilities called Visa Commercial Pay. This is a suite of B2B payments tools targeted at corporations.
As we hear tell of Mint's demise it becomes clear that the market for personal finance management is evolving beyond just budgeting.
Stripe has, for some time, been one of the leading fintech companies globally when it comes to scale.
But the numbers it revealed today in its annual letter are truly staggering. It processed $1 trillion, around 1% of global GDP, through its platform in 2023. It crossed that milestone just 15 years after it was founded.
Late Friday, we learned that Synapse has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and that its assets will be acquired by payments infrastructure company TabaPay.
This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has been following the slow-moving Synapse saga for the last 12+ months. The company had done multiple rounds of layoffs and had an ongoing dispute with Mercury.
This deal was first rumored to be happening in mid-March.
Yesterday, it became official. Private equity firm Advent International has agreed to acquire Nuvei in an all-cash deal valued at $6.3 billion.