IAA Credit Union, a $425 million-asset institution headquartered in Illinois, has selected Mahalo Banking as its new digital banking provider, replacing an unspecified incumbent platform. The credit union, which serves employees and affiliated members of the Illinois Agriculture Association group, including Illinois Farm Bureau, COUNTRY Financial and Growmark, will deploy Mahalo’s Thoughtful Banking platform across […]
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Simply Asset Finance, the specialist SME lender founded in 2017, has reported pre-tax profits of £3.4 million for the financial year ending 31 December 2025, alongside revenues of £66 million, up 9% year on year. The gross loan book expanded to £532 million, while cumulative origination since inception rose 25% to £2.05 billion. The results […]
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BlackRock has launched tokenised share classes for a selection of its Institutional Cash Series (ICS) money market funds in Europe, making on-chain access available across 15 markets in sterling, euro and US dollar denominations. The firm describes the move as its first tokenised fund access in Europe, with the underlying funds carrying a combined AUM […]
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Jordan Kuwait Bank (JKB) has issued its second Green Bond, with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) committing up to USD 100 million as anchor investor. The Amman-based lender, which holds total assets of approximately USD 7.70 billion, first entered the green bond market in 2023 in what IFC described at the time as Jordan’s inaugural […]
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Fideo Intelligence and Sigma360 have entered into a commercial partnership designed to close a persistent gap in financial crime compliance: the disconnect between verifying who an individual is and assessing the risk posed by the businesses and counterparties connected to that person. Under the arrangement, banks, fintechs, professional services firms and government agencies can engage […]
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Alchemy Pay, the crypto payments firm, is in the process of formalising an accession agreement with Worldpay for its Swiss entity, Alchemy Pay AG, according to an internal email thread that has been submitted to this publication. The correspondence, spanning May to August 2026, reveals the compliance and legal groundwork being laid as the company […]
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Dudley Building Society has added two senior hires to its leadership team, appointing Jayne Roberts as Head of Lending and Richard McDonald as Brand and Communications Manager, effective August 2026. Richard McDonald, brand and communications manager and Jayne Roberts, head of lending at Dudley Building Society Roberts joins from Skipton Building Society, where she built […]
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Unity Trust Bank has passed the £2 billion mark in customer deposits for the first time, according to its half-year results for the six months ending June 2026. The Birmingham-based ethical lender recorded a customer base of nearly 12,000, a record high, while new lending of £155.7 million represented a seven per cent increase on […]
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Rivo, a San Francisco consumer fintech, has closed a $3.1 million seed round and launched publicly out of beta. The round was led by South Park Commons and joined by Wisdom Ventures, Script Capital, 645 Ventures and 20VC, alongside angel investor Jag Duggal, formerly chief product officer at Nubank. The company’s product connects to a […]
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FinXP, a European payment infrastructure provider, has partnered with Thredd, a global issuer-processing platform, to strengthen FinXP’s card issuing capabilities and support the next phase of its embedded finance offering. The partnership will enable FinXP to enhance its debit card programmes with a modern issuer-processing stack, supporting tokenisation, provisioning, risk and fraud prevention, card […]
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