March 16, 2025

PYMNTS News

Finance

Bookkeeping Firm Digits Buys Accounting Platform Basis Finance

Bookkeeping platform Digits has acquired budgeting and forecasting startup Basis Finance. “With rising interest rates and a tightening fundraising environment, the importance of extending runway has become crystal clear to founders in 2024,” the company said in a news release Monday (June 17). “Through this acquisition Digits will accelerate its [financial planning and analysis] FP&A roadmap and extend its dashboard

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Crypto

JPMorgan Doubts Crypto Inflows Will Remain as Robust

America’s largest bank says the state of the cryptocurrency market may not be sustainable. This year has seen crypto net inflows of $12 billion thus far — a figure that could jump to $26 billion by year’s end assuming flows continue apace — a trend driven by demand for spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), JPMorgan

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Crypto

Crypto Startups Take In $100 Billion From Investors in 10 Years

In the years since the industry’s founding, cryptocurrency startups have pulled in around $100 billion. That’s according to a report Saturday (June 15) by Bloomberg News, citing data from two sources: DeFiLlama which pegs the crypto sector’s total fundraising at $101 billion since 2014, and The Block Research, which has logged $95 billion in investment

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Finance

Old Consumers at Risk for Financial Exploitation as They Go Digital

Saturday (June 15) marks Elder Abuse Awareness Day. As more baby boomers and seniors go online to get their banking done — making payments, investing and paying bills or taxes — the fraudsters are finding elder abuse of a financial nature to be quite lucrative. Coming into 2024, the PYMNTS Intelligence report “How the World

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Loans

Goldman Sachs Backs Stream Innovations to Expand Services

Stream Innovations has secured a $400 million warehouse facility from Goldman Sachs to expand its portfolio of home improvement loans. The company, which provides point-of-sale financing for home improvement and solar installations, currently has $670 million in loans under management and expects to originate $800 million in home improvement loans in 2024, Stream Innovations said in

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Investors

FinTechs Flounder as Investors Embrace ‘AI Mindset’

Has the FinTech industry hit bottom after years of skyrocketing investments? That seemed to be the sentiment among some executives and investors at the Money20/20 event in Amsterdam earlier this month, CNBC reported Thursday (June 13). Among them was Iana Dimitrova, CEO of embedded finance startup OpenPayd, who told CNBC that the market has “recalibrated.”

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Finance

Traydstream and 360tf Partner to Digitize Global Trade Finance

Traydstream and 360tf partnered to digitize, innovate and expand global trade finance solutions. The collaboration aims to make trade finance “efficient and seamless” by bridging the global trade finance gap, reducing paper dependency and digitizing processes, the companies said in a Wednesday (June 12) press release. “360tf and Traydstream together aim to revolutionize the digitization

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Finance

Small Businesses Emerge as Candidates for Embedded Lending

Lenders across major global economies offer embedded lending. However, data suggests that the typical lender that serves consumers or small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) has not fully embraced the potential of embedded lending. For example, nearly half of lenders serving SMBs have not entered this space. Roughly 1 in 5 lenders show high interest in

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Loans

Apple Pay to Offer Access to Affirm BNPL Loans

Apple Pay users in the United States will be able to apply for buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans through Affirm during checkout. This is one of several new features that will be added to Apple Pay in the fall, Apple said in a Tuesday (June 11) press release. “Apple Pay introduces even more flexibility

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Finance

Consumer Confidence About Finances Highest in 3 Years

Consumers are more confident about the prospects for their household’s financial situation and the stock market than they’ve been in three years. The share of consumers who expect their financial situation to be the same or better off 12 months from now — 78.1% — is the highest it’s been since June 2021, the Federal

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