Banking technology company LEVERIS has announced its partnership with Marqeta, the global card issuing platform, to integrate its modern card capabilities within the LEVERIS digital banking platform.

Today ikigai, the premium fintech app, launches its new stocks & shares ISA.

Personal loans, also known as signature loans, unsecured loans, and signature-based financing, allow a borrower to borrow funds from a lending institution with the loan amount not backed by any collateral. Unsecured personal loans typically have lower interest rates, lower fees, and longer repayment terms than credit cards or payday loans. Additionally, unsecured personal loans are usually easier to obtain than other types of loans.

Having a business loan may seem necessary if you're trying to expand your company. For whatever reasons you're getting a loan, you should be careful where you apply for one. Even if loans and borrowing money from licensed moneylenders have been a thing since decades ago, people still get scammed and cheated on. In Singapore, you can search up the list of legitimate money lending agencies to know which licensed money lender are you going to apply to. 

WhatsApp users in Brazil can quickly, conveniently, and securely transfer money directly on the app

Starting today, Mastercard cardholders in Brazil can send and receive money to and from friends and family through WhatsApp. Mastercard debit cardholders with cards issued by Banco Inter, Itaú, Nubank and Sicredi will be able to use the innovative P2P WhatsApp service. The payments service on WhatsApp is enabled by Facebook Pay and processed by Facebook Pagamentos and Cielo.

The Canadian fintech surpassed the 2 million user mark in its home country, up from around 1.5 million when it last reported the figure in October. Wealthsimple unveiled the user updates alongside a CAD$750 million ($559.2 million) funding round on Monday, which values it at CAD$5 billion ($3.73 billion)—more than triple the CAD$1.5 billion ($1.12 billion) valuation it reached after its previous round in October.

Leading mortgage technology provider Twenty7Tec today announces that Halifax Intermediaries has been added to its APPLY module, and following a successful trial, is now available to all users of the CloudTwenty7 platform to enable them to submit decision in principle applications to Halifax without the need for re-keying.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released two reports today showing that more work needs to be done to help mortgage borrowers coping with the COVID-19 pandemic and economic downturn. The first report documents that Black and Hispanic mortgage borrowers are much more likely to be delinquent or in a forbearance program than white borrowers. In a second report, the CFPB reports that overall mortgage complaints to the CFPB have risen to their highest level in three years.  

Refinitiv today announced a new strategic agreement with FinTech Studios, an AI-based news, market intelligence and analytics provider, to provide industry, local and regional news, and research to wealth management professionals across Latin America and beyond.

Kubernetes, supported by a vibrant open source community, can drive outstanding innovation. To help in Kubernetes adoption, Red Hat and IBM Research have created Konveyor, an open source project aimed at helping modernize and migrate applications for open hybrid cloud by building tools, identifying patterns and providing advice on how to bring cloud-native transformation across IT. Konveyor also supports a growing number of tools, such as Crane, Forklift, Move2Kube, Tackle, and Pelorus, designed to accelerate Kubernetes adoption.