News and Press
02/02/2024
Thanks to the proliferation of embedded finance, any company can now offer financial services. But could embedded finance enable a company to act as its own bank? Feargal Brady, CEO and Aaron Clauson, CTO, are asked. Harsh Govil, a principal at Motive Ventures, and Chris Adelsbach, the founding partner of Outrun Ventures and one of Europe’s most prolific fintech investors, also express their views.
24/01/2024
Jonathan Keane writes about various businesses in embedded finance who are expanding into new areas and looking to take more market share from traditional financial institutions.
05/01/2024
NoFrixion is the first Irish fintech to gain both the Electric Money Institution (EMI) authorisation and the Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) registration, and the social and environmental B-Corp certification.
19/12/2023
NoFrixion mentioned in Wired’s Hottest Startups in Dublin where “pick and shovel” companies, like Wayflyer, TALY and Nory, are helping other businesses get stuff done.
06/11/2023
Dublin Tech Talks sits down with Feargal Brady to discuss NoFrixion and its Money Movement platform which enables businesses to send, store, receive and reconcile funds programmatically. NoFrixion was registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) on the 31st of May 2023 by the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), followed by authorisation as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) on the 25th July 2023.
19/10/2023
Episode 162. Feargal Brady, NoFrixion CEO, sits down with Conal Ó Móráín to discuss who he would hire in a heartbeat and he explains why 'Pay by Bank' is being promoted by the EU and why it’s fast becoming popular. Joined on the episode by Ken Fitzpatrick from the Digital Marketing Institute.
27/09/2023
Feargal Brady speaks to the Business Post about obtaining the authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland and how this was testament to the NoFrixion team.
27/09/2023
Feargal speaks to RTE about NoFrixion securing the Electronic Money Authorisation from the Central Bank.
15/09/2023
NoFrixion wins the Best Digital Banking Solution Award at the inaugural National Fintech Awards 2023!
05/09/2023
Episode 5. Feargal Brady discusses the inefficiencies he experienced first hand in the current payments process when he was CEO of a communications business, as well as his experience of the Central Bank’s authorisation process. He also discusses his hopes and ambitions for NoFrixion and what he thinks the Irish financial services industry does well (and not so well).
20/08/2023
Jonathan Keane briefly discusses NoFrixion’s approval from the Central Bank of Ireland for crypto functions.
03/08/2023
Susan O’Neill interviews Feargal Brady, CEO, about NoFrixion’s plans for “revolutionising money movement”.
30/04/2023
S3 E2. Feargal Brady joins the Furthr with Founders podcast for a chat about his inspiring entrepreneurial journey - from his early years in Blueface to his newest venture, NoFrixion. NoFrixion aims to revolutionise and build on the future of the instant economy in online payments. Feargal and the host, Dr Rosalind Beere, are also joined by John Phelan, an experienced investment expert.
09/02/2023
EE 230. In this episode, Feargal discusses the following:
How to create a triple bottom line.
The 3 things he would do to fix Ireland's problems in 1 year
Why he splits his time between Ireland, Spain, and Portugal
How his impact investment fund aims to make profit while improving the world
What will kill banking as we know it today
The feeling after selling your life's work for a life-changing amount of money
01/11/2022
In this episode of The Gross Profit Podcast, James Kennedy chats to Feargal Brady, co-founder and CEO of NoFrixion. Feargal previously co-founded and later sold cloud-based telecommunications provider Blueface to Comcast. Feargal talks about how NoFrixion’s platform is built to support digital wallets and provide businesses with API enabled banking.
Feargal also explains how NoFrixion works in detail and tells us about his vision to free up time for accounts payable staff so they can spend more time on value-added tasks and less time on administration.
28/10/2022
Tina-Marie O’Neill writes about NoFrixion’s partnership with estate agency Auctioneera, a deal that will provide a digital payments infrastructure for real-time payments reconciliation and accounting updates for the agency.
As a result of the partnership, Auctioneera is cutting its payments processing charges by 87% while also considerably reducing its manual processing needs. Further commentary provided by Eddie O’Driscoll, Auctioneera’s director.
04/10/2022
John Kennedy talks about NoFrixion’s focus on revolutionising business payments, and it’s raising of €3.6m in a round led by Delta Partners, Middlegame Ventures and Furthr VC.
04/10/2022
Fintech Alliance gives brief overview of Silicon Republic’s article.
03/10/2022
Vish Gain writes about NoFrixion raising €3.6m in seed funding to invest in its business payments offering and to grow its team.
03/10/2022
Nick Mulcahy writes about NoFrixion raising €3.6m in seed funding and refers to a July 2022 allotment filing for the breakdown of investments.
03/10/2022
Caoimhe Gordon writes about NoFrixion raising €3.6m in funding and plans for the future. “NoFrixion now has customers in Ireland, UK, Belgium and Portugal and has also signed several large systems integrators.”
03/10/2022
Tech Central writes about NoFrixion raising €3.6m in funding, and how businesses can “replace their day-to-day payments operations, with a smart, connected current account and native access to international payments networks, including the Bitcoin Lightning Network.”
03/10/2022
Finextra writes about NoFrixion raising €3.6m in funding, and how for developers the NoFrixion MoneyMoov API can “allow them to incorporate multiple payment options covering cards, open banking - including Sepa and FasterPayments - and Bitcoin Lightning in a single API”.
03/10/2022
Fintech Global covers NoFrixion’s fund raising and pulls information from Finextra about the MoneyMoov API.
03/04/2022
Lorcan Allen talks with Feargal Brady, CEO, and Aaron Clauson, CTO, about NoFrixion’s plans for the future. NoFrixion will more than double its workforce over the next year as it begins to ramp up the rollout of its instant payments technology.
06/07/2021
S1 E13. Feargal Brady, CEO, joins Dr. Ruth Freeman (Science Foundation Ireland) and Suzanne Moloney (Hidramed Solutions) to discuss and explore challenges in health, climate and other aspects of society.