Tagged: americas

June 29, 2023 @ 6:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase, a global Fintech company and creators of a unified Engagement Banking Platform that improves every aspect of the customer and member experience, announced multiple new hires to its Enterprise team in North America. The addition of these skilled professionals shows Backbase’s dedication “to the… Read More

June 27, 2023 @ 11:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

RockX, a firm focused on institutional-grade staking solutions throughout Asia, announced the appointment of Paul Mischenko as Head of Americas. This move is part of its commitment “to broaden its presence in the Americas, leveraging its well-established Asian base to drive this expansion.” RockX views… Read More

June 26, 2023 @ 8:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos (SIX: TEMN) recently announced that Puerto-Rico headquartered Segura Bank has selected Temenos “to power the launch of a new digital bank in the cloud for mid to high earners in Latin America.” Segura Bank will run Temenos’ banking platform “on Microsoft Azure to develop… Read More

June 13, 2023 @ 10:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysend, the global card-to-card transfer pioneer and global payments platform, has appointed ex Ernst & Young auditor and American Express executive, Yuri Biondo as Chief Financial Officer for the Group’s US business. Based in Miami, he will “report directly to the Group CFO, Wilhelm Rohde,… Read More

May 31, 2023 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Netcoins, the online cryptocurrency brokerage that makes it easy for North Americans to buy, sell, and understand cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Intelligence Group, a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and data analytics solutions, is pleased “to report… Read More

May 21, 2023 @ 12:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TS Imagine, the global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for sophisticated investors and their teams, announces two key sales hires in North America to support the firm’s growth. James Muench joined “as Sales Director, where he will contribute to the development… Read More

May 15, 2023 @ 12:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a payments platform, recently announced the launch of its revamped Skrill digital wallet for online gaming in the Canadian province of Ontario. Developed specifically to meet the payment preferences of iGaming players, the upgraded Skrill wallet allows Ontarians “to instantly fund wagers… Read More

May 9, 2023 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of Canada is launching an online public consultation on “the features that could be included in a digital Canadian dollar.” The consultation opened on May 8, 2023 and runs until June 19. The way Canadians pay for everything from the daily necessities “to… Read More

April 26, 2023 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial Recovery Technologies (FRT), the global securities class actions recovery provider, announced it will power the North American class action filing and recovery service for BNY Mellon‘s custody clients, “including broader access to comprehensive non-U.S. alerts for global markets.” This expands upon the alliance that… Read More

April 20, 2023 @ 3:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BankiFi, which claims to be a leading provider of embedded banking solutions, has appointed Lindsay Hodges “as their new Director of Product Management and Client Success for the Americas.” Hodges’ addition to the team is reportedly “one of the latest efforts in BankiFi’s dedication to… Read More

April 17, 2023 @ 4:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cynthia Del Pozo Garcia, Director, Strategy & Corporate Development at Gemini, notes that as one of the most important and developed markets in the Americas, Canada has “played an essential role in Gemini’s international expansion.” The team at Gemini are glad to show their continued… Read More

December 9, 2022 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fenergo, a compliance solutions provider, announced the appointment of former SunTrust (Truist) compliance executive Tracy Moore as Director of Strategy in the Americas. Moore will “oversee the development and execution of business strategy across Fenergo’s operations in North America, including those in the United States… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 2:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AXA XL Insurance has launched an Underwriting Innovation Office in the Americas to drive innovation “in support of business initiatives, appointing Rose Hall, currently Head of Construction Innovation, as Head of Innovation, Americas to lead activities.” According to AXA XL’s Americas CEO Joe Tocco: “Innovating… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 12:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Napier, the provider of anti-financial crime compliance solutions, has announced the addition of two key hires to strengthen its North America team. Shana Leyva joins as Head of Marketing and Danielle Labarbera as Head of Sales. The new hires “represent Napier’s latest investment in the… Read More

May 18, 2022 @ 5:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mercer, an international leader in “redefining” the world of work, “reshaping” retirement and investment outcomes, and “unlocking real health” and well-being, and a business of Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC), has “named Max Messervy Head of Sustainable Investment (SI), Americas.” Max will work across Mercer’s Investment… Read More

May 17, 2022 @ 11:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Temenos AG (SIX: TEMN) recently announced the appointment of Roman Bartik as President Americas in order to accelerate and scale expansion in the region. Roman will be “responsible for all day-to-day operations, strategy and profitability in North and South America, effective immediately.” Roman joins the… Read More

April 29, 2022 @ 12:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BPC has announced its expansion into the Americas in order to support the payments and processing requirements of traditional financial institutions, payments processors, and Fintech firms. The company is launching its full suite of SaaS Cloud services “on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from Ashburn, Virginia,… Read More

September 2, 2020 @ 7:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Although global Fintech funding declined during the first half of this year, with $25.6 billion of total investment secured globally through 1,221 deals, corporate business deals are driving most of the VC activity. This, according to the Pulse of Fintech H1’20, which is a report… Read More

May 5, 2017 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), will release their anticipated Americas Alternative Finance Survey at an event hosted by CME Group on May 25.  The data is anticipated to definitively reveal the status and growth of… Read More

April 11, 2016 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, along with their project partners the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago, KPMG and the CME Group Foundation, have published their much anticipated report on alternative forms of finance for the Americas.  The newest… Read More