Financial Planning

Klarna Payment options now available at checkout on Apple pay in-app and online in Canada 

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, is now available to users in Canada checking out on Apple Pay online and in apps with iPhone and iPad on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 or later. Eligible Apple Pay users in Canada will have...

Zilch’s Black Friday spending surge – record boost to retailers as shoppers target travel bargains

Zilch, the FinTech payments innovator of the world’s first ad-subsidised payments network (ASPN), releases data today showing the full impact of a record Black Friday that saw its sales more than double compared to the previous year.  Black Friday b...

Bread Financial and NNEDV empower domestic abuse survivors as they begin their journeys to financial independence 

Unlike physical violence, the signs of financial abuse aren’t as visible. There are no black eyes or broken bones. Instead, survivors are left with permanent financial scars that can take years to fade, greatly impacting their future safety and w...

Q&A: Pavitar Singh, CEO and Co-founder at UnifyApps 

After securing a US$20 million Series A funding round led by ICONIQ Growth, UnifyApps is set to help businesses in the UAE and KSA leverage AI to unify data and streamline workflows. In an interview with CEO, Pavitar Singh, we explore how UnifyApps is...

National insurance and financial services firm, Alera group, deploys AI-powered platform 

Alera Group, a leading independent national insurance and financial services firm, has announced the selection and deployment of the TIFIN @Work AI-powered workplace benefits and wealth management platform. Alera Group’s Retirement Plan Services...

Backbase unveils Intelligence Fabric to unlock AI-productivity gains for banks 

Backbase is excited to announce a major expansion of the Engagement Banking Platform with the introduction of the Intelligence Fabric layer, a powerful set of data and AI infrastructure and development capabilities that are now natively embedded in the...

Bread Financial launches IRA retirement savings and CDs

Bread Financial, a tech-forward financial services company, has introduced its IRA Retirement Savings and CDs, a new individual retirement account (IRA) offering that includes High-Yield Savings Accounts (HYSA) and Certificates of Deposit (CD) options. The ...

FinTech’s growing indifference to agency banks highlights rifts in long-term relationships 

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, has released research into the attitudes of FinTechs towards agency banks, with worrying implications for long-term relationships.  The report, ‘How...

Klarna now an official Apple reseller with the launch of new storefront

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has unveiled ‘Apple from Klarna’, a storefront in the Klarna app and Klarna.com where customers can purchase Apple products using its flexible payment options. Now an official Apple res...

Crypto.com receives payment service provider licence from Central Bank of Bahrain 

Crypto.com has received full approval to provide payment service provider (PSP) services from the Central Bank of Bahrain through its subsidiary registered in the Kingdom of Bahrain under the commercial name “FORIS GFS BH B.S.C. CLOSED”, adding to the com...

The process of hyper-regulation in asset management has sped up

We hear from José Fernando Martínez, Chief Compliance Officer at MAPFRE AM. He discusses the rise in regulation in the asset management industry over the past 26 years, the same number of years he’s been working at MAPFRE AM. In fact, he notes that there’s been ...

2024 Schwab Modern Wealth Survey shows increasing financial confidence from generation to generation and younger Americans investing at an earlier age 

More than 60% of Americans feel they are in a better position to achieve their financial goals than the generations that came before them, according to Schwab’s eighth annual Modern Wealth Survey, an examination of how Americans think about saving, s...