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TabaPay to acquire assets of bankrupt BaaS provider Synapse

Money moving platform TabaPay is to acquire the rival assets of bankrupt Banking-as-a-Service platform Synapse.

22 April 2024

Brim Financial raises $85m for US expansion

Toronto-based payment technology firm Brim Financial is targeting the US after raising $85 million in a Series C funding round led by EDC Investments.

03 April 2024

News/payments

Railsr proposes merger with Equals Group

Embedded Finance, Railsr's parent company, has approached Equals Group for a merger of the two companies, Sky News reports.

20 March 2024

News/retail

Solaris raises €96 million in funding

German Banking-as-a-Service outfit Solaris has raised €96 million in a Series F funding round and secured a financial guarentee of up to €100 million capital equivalent which will enable it to execute on a major credit card contract with Munich-based motor association Adac.

19 March 2024

News/startups

Brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets goes live

Berlin-based brokerage-as-a-service platform lemon.markets has gone live in cooperation with Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, and Tradegate.

14 March 2024

News/startups

BaaS platform Synctera raises $18.6m

Banking-as-a-Service player Synctera has raised $18.6 million in a Series A extension co-led by Lightspeed and Fin Capital.

05 March 2024

News/startups

Treasury Prime lays off staff in strategic pivot

Embedded banking platform Treasury Prime has laid off half of its staff as part of a strategic pivot to sell directly to banks.

04 March 2024

News/payments

NextGen Nordics 2024: 40+ banks registered to attend

NextGen Nordics returns to Stockholm on 23rd April, and at seven weeks away from the event day, 200 attendees have already registered.

01 March 2024

News/payments

Finextra's top research reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded whitepapers, sentiment papers and surveys over the course of the past year. These reports are Finextra-led and cobranded, based on editorially balanced, independent, referenced desk-based and online research.

28 December 2023

News/payments

Finextra's top impact study reports of 2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most downloaded impact study reports over the course of the past year. Our impact study reports are how-to, best practice guides that support those in the financial industry in their utilisation and optimisation of particular technologies, as well as providing an outlook at future trends to watch.

27 December 2023

News/cloud

PwC forms alliance with Starling's Engine SaaS platform

PwC has signed on as a strategic implementation platform for Starling Bank's Software-as-a-Service platform, Engine.

07 December 2023

News/payments

TrueLayer partners with Lunar for Nordic push

UK open banking vendor TrueLayer is hopping on the payment infrastructure of Nordic challenger bank Lunar in a bid to extend its account-to-account payment services across Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

06 December 2023

News/retail

Finastra survey shows global investment in AI, embedded finance, and BaaS

Finastra’s annual global State of the Nation Survey revealed that the financial services sector is investing in new innovations in artificial intelligence (AI), embedded finance, and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS).

01 December 2023

News/retail