Monotto is looking in the next two years to gain its first international client. With a little more luck, the fintech startup could have met that goal more than a year ago. Monotto provides white-labeled software that allows banks to offer their customers an automated savings function, but not simply by rounding up to the […]
Global Payments Donation Software Launches in Canada
A Global Payments Inc. software platform used by nonprofits to process donations has launched in Canada. The Atlanta-based company late last month expanded the reach of its Greater Giving platform to the U.S.’s neighbor to the north, helping nonprofits there simplify fundraising via events and online payments. The cloud-base platform has processed $6 billion in […]
Alpharetta to Asia: Atlanta Fintech Firm DataSeers to Accelerate Growth With India Office
After ringing in the new year, metro Atlanta-based DataSeers is wasting no time getting started on its resolutions. Just in the last two months, it has checked off two major milestones: graduating from the Tech Alpharetta incubator in December, followed by gaining recognition in January as one of the Technology Association of Georgia’s 40 most innovative firms. […]
British AI-Enabled Fraud Detection Company Raises $32.3 Million for Global Expansion
Featurespace, a London-based firm that chose Atlanta as its U.S. headquarters, has raised $32.3 million more in funding for international expansion. Born out of research at Cambridge University, the company focuses on real-time fraud detection using artificial intelligence. The new round was led by Insight Venture Partners and MissionOG, two U.S.-based venture capital firms, but also […]
Atlanta’s Kabbage Fuels Small Business Financing for Alibaba
Atlanta-based fintech unicorn Kabbage Inc. is enabling an effort by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to offer credit to U.S. buyers on its original platform. Alibaba.com, a digital marketplace that grew by allowing customers to source online from China, began the company’s ascent into a publicly traded behemoth touching nearly all segments of online commerce. Its […]
Cardlytics to Open First Asia Office in India
Atlanta-based Cardlytics plans to open its first Asia office next year in Visakhapatnam, an eastern Indian city making its case as a financial technology hub. The office will open in early 2019 and will ramp up to 80 employees by the following year, according to a news release by Cardlytics, which helps banks and other […]
Former British PM David Cameron to Headline Atlanta Payments Summit This Week
As if there needed to be an exclamation point to a high-level payments forum between Atlanta and the United Kingdom this week, the event will be headlined by former British Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron will speak at a dinner Wednesday at the Georgia Aquarium, providing further proof that the Payments 20 (P20) conference […]
Portuguese-born Fraud Protection Company to Double Local Headcount to 60
Fraud protection company Feedzai, which was founded in Portugal and set up an office in Atlanta in 2016, is set to double its headcount locally to 60 by early next year. Feedzai offers machine learning capabilities that help financial institutions and payment platforms detect and prevent fraud. It prides itself on providing an open platform […]
South African Fintech Firm Picks Atlanta for North American Headquarters
Entersekt, a financial technology firm based in South Africa, has opened a new North American headquarters in Sandy Springs following its success landing major customers in the metro Atlanta area. The company uses the capabilities of a consumer’s mobile device within apps to help with authentication — the process of making sure the person initiating a payment […]
Agnes Scott President Lays Out Atlanta’s Strengths and Challenges Before Departing for Oxford
Twelve years ago just after arriving in Atlanta to begin her tenure as president of Agnes Scott College, Dr. Elizabeth Kiss read a New York Times article about the Fugees’ search for a soccer field and the wrong turn that Luma Mufieh made while driving through Clarkston. Ms. Mufleh, originally from Amman, Jordan, came to […]
