S&P Global Market Intelligence rounds up financial technology companies' recent product launches, partnership announcements and fundraising activity, as well as regulatory developments in the financial technology space. Please send tips to Rachel.Stone@spglobal.com. For more fintech news, click here.
Banking and lending
Numerated Growth Technologies Inc. raised $15 million in a series B funding round, which was led by Patriot Financial Partners LP. Numerated applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to data from inside and outside of banks to provide real-time borrowing.
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Western Union Co. launched its online account-funded money transfers through a partnership with Canadian payments technology firm Paramount Commerce.
Payments
MoneyGram International Inc. and Visa Inc. partnered to roll out a new debit card deposit service, available through Visa's real-time push payments platform.
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Mastercard Inc. and enterprise blockchain software provider R3 collaborated to create and launch a blockchain-enabled cross-border payment solution.
Cryptocurrency
VersaBank unit VersaVault Inc.'s exclusive licensee Chairmans Financial BV took on its first cryptocurrency exchange customer. Chairmans Financial will provide the exchange customer with a host of financial services, including the storage of digital assets.
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Deutsche Bank AG joined JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s Interbank Information Network, a blockchain project aimed at making cross-border payments faster and easier, the Financial Times reported. The German banking giant is now part of 320 banks included in the network.
Trading and investing
Tradeweb Markets Inc. and Intercontinental Exchange Inc. launched the first of its reference price solutions, Tradeweb ICE U.S. Treasury Closing Prices. The platform was created to provide the daily market mid-price for U.S. Treasury securities.
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Northern Trust Corp. was selected by Charles Taylor PLC unit Charles Taylor Investment Management to provide it with integrated trading solutions and assisted MiFID II transaction reporting.
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Morgan Stanley added features in its Work Financial Wellness platform, marketed for employees of midsize to large corporations, such as student loan refinancing options and financial coaching.
Data and information management
Workiva Inc. and Sentieo Inc. partnered to create a comprehensive document search solution for customer filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Forrester Research Inc. released its customer experience platform, called FeedbackNow 2.0, which lets companies monitor and improve customers' experience in real time.
