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September 2023

Embedded finance in September 2023

38 developments from 38 companies: 2 acquisitions, 5 funding, 8 partnerships and integrations, 8 launches, 1 licences and regulators, 14 other developments.

The biggest deals

  1. 1
    Moss

    Moss secured €50M debt funding facility from HSBC Innovation Banking UK. source

  2. 2
    Albo

    Closed $40M Series C led by Morpheus Ventures; targeting profitability in 2024 source

  3. 3
    ZayZoon

    Raised $34.5M Series B led by Framework Venture Partners, with EDC and ATB Financial. source

  4. 4
    Momnt

    Closed $15M equity round led by TruStage Ventures with Rockefeller Asset Management participation. source

Acquisitions 2

Sep 1

Acquired GCS International, expanding the group's portfolio of financial services businesses.

grupopopular.com
Sep 1

Risevest acquired Chaka in undisclosed deal; Chaka continues to operate separately.

techpoint.africa

Funding 5

Sep 1

Raised $34.5M Series B led by Framework Venture Partners, with EDC and ATB Financial.

techcrunch.com
Sep 1

Closed $40M Series C led by Morpheus Ventures; targeting profitability in 2024

fintechfutures.com
Sep 1

Announced $25M Series B led by Edison Partners, reinforcing position as country's largest ICHRA administrator.

prnewswire.com
Sep 1

Moss secured €50M debt funding facility from HSBC Innovation Banking UK.

tech.eu
Sep 1

Closed $15M equity round led by TruStage Ventures with Rockefeller Asset Management participation.

businesswire.com

Partnerships and integrations 8

Sep 1

Spice Money partnered with Israel's Tarya Fintech to launch a specialized rural lending platform for dairy merchants in India.

ibsintelligence.com
Sep 1

MiFinity integrates Cryptopay to enable cryptocurrency funding and withdrawal for its eWallet customers.

ibsintelligence.com
Sep 1

Emirates NBD Innovation Fund made a strategic equity investment in Komgo, a blockchain-based trade finance platform.

wam.ae
Sep 1

Envestnet hosted webinar on Cash & Credit Solutions for RIAs, featuring Advisor Credit Exchange and UBS partnerships.

envestnet.com
Sep 1

Cover Genius announced strategic partnership with Volaris to embed travel protection (medical, baggage, cancellation) via XCover at point of booking.

beinsure.com
Sep 1

iGTB officially launched iGTB Copilot, an AI-based Commercial & Corporate Banking Suite, integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service for commercial banks.

ibsintelligence.com
Sep 1

Pan-European strategic partnership announced with Viva.com to power Petit Bateau's Store+ omnichannel in-store and online payment solution.

viva.com
Sep 1

Renewed Coop Matkonto partnership as card issuer and invoicing partner

payex.se

Launches 8

Sep 1

Launched Bizee Payments dashboard, a POS service embedded directly in the customer dashboard.

bizee.com
Sep 1

Launched Mastercard open banking payments for investment account top-ups; ~20% of new funds flow through the module.

home.saxo
Sep 1

Launched flexible financing for German hospitality businesses with YouLend.

youlend.com
Sep 1

Launched Business Now, Pay Later™ enabling financial institutions to offer B2B installments to SMEs.

buzz.episodesix.com
Sep 1

Surpassed $200M in financed merchandise; launched Verifica and Analiza products.

finkargo.com
Sep 1

Industrial Bank (兴业银行) Beijing branch launched 'Xing Speed Loan (Xiaomi Exclusive)' product for Xiaomi dealers, offering up to ¥5M unsecured credit lines.

finance.sina.com.cn
Sep 1

Launched invoice financing and an embedded credit-control feature in the UK (via Satago).

satago.com
Sep 1

BNY Mellon launched Bankify in strategic alliance with Trustly for open banking pay-by-bank payments with guaranteed ACH settlement.

bny.com

Licences and regulators 1

Sep 7

Obtained a full UK banking licence, replacing a temporary approval.

bloomberg.com

Everything else 14

Sep 1

Castlelake provided warehouse financing to Cherry Technologies to fund ongoing installment loan originations.

castlelake.com
Sep 1

Bonobos sold by Walmart to WHP Global and Express, Inc. for $75 million; now operates as Express BNBS Fashion, LLC.

bonobos.com
Sep 1

Travelex completed £90M five-year refinancing to repay £50M term loan, redeem £12M New Money Notes, and fund growth investment.

travelex-corporate.com
Sep 1

Sofidel and Crédit Agricole Italia closed a medium- to long-term sustainability-linked loan tied to environmental and social KPIs.

sofidel.com
Sep 1

HDFC Bank announced rollout of Credit on UPI product, leveraging pre-sanctioned credit lines for customers, alongside ICICI Bank.

forbesindia.com
Sep 1

WEX published a case study detailing Smart AutoCare's deployment of WEX payment automation for AP/claims payments, noting 7,000+ monthly claims and $5.5M average monthly payouts automated through the platform.

wexinc.com
Sep 1

Struggling to raise an additional €100M needed for its ADAC co-branded credit card contract; ADAC exploring alternative financial institutions.

ft.com
Sep 1

Surpassed $1 billion in global consumer in-app-purchase spending in Q1 2023.

tearsheet.co
Sep 1

Citi structured a $6M loan to Sempli to support SME growth in Colombia

citigroup.com
Sep 1

SBI Remit/VC Trade/Ripple Asia expand XRP-based international money transfer service to Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia

sbigroup.co.jp
Sep 1

PCBancard recognized as Business of the Month by the Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce.

leadiq.com
Sep 1

Stearns Bank joined Synctera's sponsor bank community to expand BaaS line of business.

stearnsbank.com
Sep 1

Tugende and Warbler Labs (Goldfinch) reached an agreement in principle to restructure the defaulted $5M decentralized loan.

techcrunch.com
Sep 1

Changi Pay enabled Alipay+ payments for Singapore residents travelling to China, via collaboration between CAG, Liquid Group, and Ant Group.

dfnionline.com

Where this comes from

Each item is a dated development on the dossier of a company the Index tracks, linked to its announcement where the dossier recorded one. It is not every embedded finance announcement of the month. Deals between two tracked companies are listed once. Kinds are assigned from each announcement’s wording, and deals are ranked by the amount raised or paid, where disclosed.

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