Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer reacts to the doubled valuation of cloud banking fintech firm Thought Machine during a recent Series D round, a signal that there is still room in the expanding cloud market for specialist companies that speed cloud transformation, and takes a look at what’s ahead for Thought Machine.
Fintech Startup Brex Releases Financial Software Platform Brex Empower
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer covers the release of Brex Empower, a new platform from fintech startup Brex focused on financial management solutions designed to speed up the pace of business, empower employees, and provide spend management capabilities.
Cross River Bank Raises $620 Million in a Move that Will Prove to be a Catalyst for Embedded Crypto
Futurum Analyst in Residence Jared Klee analyzes the $620 million raise by fintech and crypto bank Cross River, exploring how the bank combines fintech and banking, and what the funds will mean for Cross River’s growing embedded crypto services.
ServiceNow and EY Expand Strategic Partnership to Transform Tax Services for Digital Age
Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman explores the expanded partnership between ServiceNow and EY and how together they will streamline complex enterprise operations.
Stablecoin Regulation Is Coming — Here is Why That Matters
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard breaks down the Biden Administration’s request to Congress to provide a new regulatory framework for stablecoins. Along with a synopsis of what sets stablecoins apart from other types of cryptocurrencies, Blanchard sheds light on the administration’s working group report on stablecoins, which makes the case for why regulation is needed for this fast-growing segment of the digital asset space, and provides analysis on how this may or may not play into the broader effort to regulate Big Tech.
Mastercard’s Acquisition of CipherTrace Will Bolster Crypto Capabilities
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the acquisition by Mastercard of CipherTrace. As bitcoin and cryptocurrencies move more and more into the mainstream the legacy financial services players need to bolster their capabilities to process these new digital assets. The acquisition of on-chain analytics company CipherTrace by Mastercard is a lead indicator that this trend will only increase.
Bitcoin Becomes Legal Tender in El Salvador — and What This Means for FinTech
Futurum Research Senior Analyst Steven Dickens provides his analysis of the adoption by El Salvador of bitcoin as legal tender and what this means for Fintech and the global payments and money transfer providers. In a historic move, the country of El Salvador has adopted the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender.
Square Announces Afterpay Acquisition, Potentially Disrupting Everyone
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on payments provider Square’s acquisition of Buy-Now-Pay-Later leader Afterpay. With the landscape for payments and fintech being disrupted daily, this acquisition will disrupt everyone from the credit card providers, to banks, as well as the wider digital payments landscape.
Temenos Pivot to Banking-as-a-Service Seems Like Right Move at the Right Time
Futurum Research Senior Analyst, Steven Dickens provides his take on the Q2 earning of banking solutions provider Temenos and the company’s pivot to Banking-as-a-Service, which seems like the right move at the right time.
Old School Financial Services Giants NCR and Fiserv Get Into Crypto
Futurum’s Steven Dickens provides analysis on the recent news coming out of NCR, NYDIG and Fiserv around Bitcoin infrastructure, with old school financial services giants helping to fuel Bitcoin adoption. As Bitcoin moves beyond a speculative asset to a medium of exchange these infrastructure developments will become increasingly important.
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