TransUnion announced today that it is ranked #12 on the 2022 IDC FinTech Rankings, continuing a steady ascent up the IDC rankings in recent years. 

2021 was recorded as a year in which the fintech sector ran towards record worldwide. The sector was supported greatly by new players like cryptocurrencies, blockchain, contactless payment, and cybersecurity stepping in.

Anchor, the autonomous B2B billing & collections platform, partners with the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (CalCPA) to bring its platform to the largest statewide professional association of CPAs in the U.S.

liwwa Raises $18.5 Million Pre-Series B Round

After a record-breaking year in 2021, investment in Canadian fintech dropped by more than 50 per cent in the first six months of 2022, mirroring a broader decline in the technology sector, according to KPMG’s Pulse of Fintech H1’22 Global report.

Partnerships 

Zai and TerraPay Partner to Accelerate Cross-border Payments Globally

Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, today announced Marina Kilcline as Chief Human Resources Officer.  Kilcline reports to CEO, Stephen Murphy.

Fireblocks, an easy-to-use platform to create innovative products on the blockchain and manage day-to-day crypto operations, announced today that its 2022 Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) has surpassed $100 million just four years after the company’s inception and three years since Fireblocks’ first product went into the market. This achievement places Fireblocks among a rare subset of SaaS unicorns — including Slack and Twilio — that have reached this coveted valuation milestone in less than five years.

PXP Financial, the expert in global acquiring, payment, fraud and data analysis services, today announces a partnership with DisputeHelp to provide its merchant portfolio with dispute management solutions.

Plum, the European smart money app, is launching stock investing and a debit card for its customers in France, Belgium, Spain and Ireland.

The app, which uses the latest technology to help users save effortlessly, now allows customers to diversify and grow their money over the long term with its new stock investing service.