The European Central Bank (ECB) is exploring a potential interlinking between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and the Central Bank of Brazil’s Pix platform, Reuters reported Thursday (Sept. 3). The ECB said this in response to Reuters’ inquiry about a claim by unnamed sources that the two central...
Financial services app SoFi has joined forces with Payward, parent company of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken. With this partnership, Payward will leverage SoFi’s “Big Business Banking” capabilities, join the SoFi Exchange Network (SEN) and list the SoFiUSD stablecoin on its multi-asset trading platform, the companies said in a Thursday (Sept. 3) news...
Online graphic design tool Canva has instituted a new way to offer recurring subscription payments. This offering is open to Canva customers in South Africa through Capitec Pay, the account-to-account payment method from the country’s Capitec bank, the companies announced in a news release Wednesday (Sept. 2). The announcement marks “a shift...
FIS has launched a collaboration with tech company Ericsson centered around “wallet-led” financial services. The partnership will see FIS payments and issuing capabilities integrated with the Ericsson Fintech Platform, helping clients deploy digital wallet experiences at scale and offer consumers a more direct route to...
Prediction market company Polymarket says it has expanded its relationship with sports data provider Sportradar. The new partnership extends Sportradar’s sports data, streaming and integrity services to Polymarket across more than 20 sports leagues and competitions representing approximately 300,000 matches per year, the companies announced Thursday (Aug. 27). “Prediction...
Payments platform Paysafe has launched a partnership with Merchant of Record service provider FastSpring. The collaboration, announced Wednesday (Aug. 26), has yielded the launch of Paysafe’s new Merchant of Record (MoR) solution, designed to help businesses sell globally without needing to handle many of the...
Priority Commerce has launched a new partnership with the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The collaboration, announced Tuesday (Aug. 25), will see Priority provide a new ticketing payment process for the team, while also deploying its Passport treasury orchestration solution. According to a news release, this...
Investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald is moving into the prediction markets space, according to a Wednesday (Aug. 19) press release. The company is launching “institutional trading for prediction markets, becoming one of the first full-service investment banks to provide institutional clients with access to block trading...
Personetics has added open finance intelligence to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization platform for banks and credit unions by partnering with Plaid, Personetics said in a Tuesday (Aug. 18) press release. This partnership enables banks and credit unions to get a comprehensive view of a customer’s financial life by combining...