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Synapse Saga Emphasizes Tangled Web Between FinTechs, Middlemen and Sponsor Banks
Acquisitions // May 10, 2024

In biology, a synapse is essentially a conduit, a place in the brain where neurons connect and communicate. In financial services, the recent news that TabaPay would be ending its planned acquisition of the FinTech Synapse Financial Technologies brings to mind a different type of...

FIS Targets $200 Billion Addressable Market in Global Money Movement
Banking // May 07, 2024

At its investor day Tuesday (May 7), FIS management outlined its continuing strategy to capture share in global money movement — a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars. CEO Stephanie Ferris said during her initial remarks that the company’s business model is “underpinned by highly recurring revenue, allowing...

Thredd CEO: Compliance Will Define Future of Payments
Payments Innovation // April 25, 2024

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. That quote, by management consultant Peter F. Drucker, holds more true today than ever before — particularly given the shifting dynamics and challenges of the contemporary macro operating environment, where courageous and agile...

TabaPay to Acquire Assets of Bankrupt FinTech Synapse
Acquisitions // April 21, 2024

Instant money movement platform TabaPay is acquiring Synapse’s assets following the latter company’s bankruptcy. The deal, announced Friday (April 19), will allow TabaPay to offer new financial services for FinTechs and financial institutions, the company said in a news release. TabaPay noted that the two firms had offered complementary financial technology...

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Thredd CEO: Compliance Will Define Future of Payments

April 25, 2024
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision. That quote, by management consultant Peter F. Drucker, holds more true today than ever before — particularly given the shifting dynamics and challenges of the contemporary macro operating environment, where courageous and agile decisions are the life blood of business success. “The FinTech […]

Finding The Digital Economy’s Product Market FIT

June 12, 2023
I was recently asked for my advice on a new B2B network aimed at solving a big problem for a segment of small business sellers. The network was built on...

Treasury Prime Gets $40M Vote of Investor Confidence in Embedded Banking’s Marketplace Model

February 01, 2023
Two years ago, banking-as-a-service (BaaS) provider Treasury Prime, then a startup, raised $20 million. And Wednesday (Feb. 1), the company’s embedded banking marketplace model — which brings banks, FinTechs and...

FIS Says Embedded Finance in ‘First Inning’ of Payments Evolution

January 25, 2023
“If the FinTech ‘revolution,’ post-financial crisis, is in its early innings, then embedded finance is in its first inning.” Matthew Valente, head of product strategy at FIS, told PYMNTS in a...

Quick Reads
AppTech Payments Aims to Take on Venmo With InstaCash

May 16, 2024
Frictionless commerce firm AppTech Payments completed the pilot of its Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform. Now, the company will use the BaaS solution for the commercial launch of InstaCash, a real-time pay-by-bank transaction system that AppTech is positioning as a rival to both Venmo and Western Union, according to a Thursday (May 16) press release. “The success of our BaaS pilot program signifies a significant milestone as we […]

TabaPay to Acquire Assets of Bankrupt FinTech Synapse

April 21, 2024
Instant money movement platform TabaPay is acquiring Synapse’s assets following the latter company’s bankruptcy. The deal, announced Friday (April 19), will allow TabaPay to offer new financial services for FinTechs and financial institutions, the company said...

Green Dot Names Marqeta Vet Renata Caine as BaaS Lead

April 15, 2024
Green Dot has named payments industry veteran Renata Caine as its new Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) general manager. Caine previously worked at Marqeta and at the commercial payments division of WEX, the digital bank/Fintech firm said in...

Finzly Helps Banks of All Sizes Enter Embedded Banking Market

April 04, 2024
Finzly has launched a new solution designed to help banks of all sizes participate in the embedded banking market. The new Account Galaxy includes virtual account and virtual ledger capabilities, the provider of...