May 30, 2024 @ 8:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest has extended access to Business Savings from Mastercard to business debit card customers. Business Savings is a merchant discount program “provided by Mastercard which gives small business customers access to merchant offers when paying with an eligible Business Mastercard at merchants participating in the… Read More

 Tagged mastercard, natwest, uk, united kingdom

May 30, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

‍Three in ten SME finance professionals (28%) report that the most requested loan amount at the start of 2024 was over £100,000, 56% higher than the same period last year, according to iwoca’s Q1 2024 SME Expert Index. The new research, conducted with SME finance… Read More

 Tagged iwoca, lending, research, sme's, uk, united kingdom

May 29, 2024 @ 5:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nium, the global enabler of  in real-time cross-border payments, announced today that HappyEasyGo, an online travel agency, has selected it for virtual card payments. Launched in 2017, HappyEasyGo claims that it “has emerged as one of the fastest-growing flight and hotel booking platforms in Asia,… Read More

 Tagged digital transactions, fintech adoption, nium, real-time payments

May 29, 2024 @ 2:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Xapo Bank, the “fully” licensed bank that makes it simple for members to bank with Bitcoin, today announces that it has integrated further with the Lightning Network to facilitate Bitcoin deposits into members’ Bitcoin accounts. The integration provides an additional method “to deposit Bitcoin from… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin, integration, Lightning Network, xapo bank

May 29, 2024 @ 2:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fabrick, an open finance operating company, this week announced the acquisition of finAPI GmbH, a German open finance solutions provider. Founded in Munich in 2008 to develop solutions for the aggregation and analysis of financial data, finAPI serves more than 350 clients, including banks, financial… Read More

 Tagged fabrick, finAPI, Florian Haagen, Martin Lacher, open finance, paolo zaccardi, SCHUFA

May 29, 2024 @ 2:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capital on Tap, the small business credit card and spend management platform trusted by over 200,000 businesses, has expanded its partnership with Plaid to the United Kingdom. This builds upon Capital on Tap and Plaid’s successful partnership in the US, “which began back in January… Read More

 Tagged Capital On Tap, plaid, spend managemnet, united kingdom

May 29, 2024 @ 2:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced its strategic partnership with Footprint, a unified onboarding platform for identity, fraud and security. The addition of Footprint to Treasury Prime’s Partner Marketplace will “provide banks and their fintech clients access to Footprint’s Know Your Customer (KYC)… Read More

 Tagged banking, embedded banking, footprint, fraud, security, treasury prime

May 29, 2024 @ 11:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) announced new leadership appointments that will drive the creation of a new advertising platform and strengthen the company’s consumer value proposition. Mark Grether will reportedly join “on May 28 as SVP, General Manager, PayPal Ads, and John Anderson has joined… Read More

 Tagged paypal, paypal holdings

May 29, 2024 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has agreed an £100m increase to its existing ENABLE Guarantee transaction with leading fintech Oxbury Bank – a UK bank with a singular focus on farmers, food production and the rural economy. The original £100m transaction, announced in November 2023, and… Read More

 Tagged british business bank, uk, united kingdom

May 28, 2024 @ 10:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Onbe, a corporate payouts platform, recently published its Spring 2024 Title, Escrow and Mortgage Payments Survey. It suggests that home buyers overwhelmingly prefer digital payouts; 92% of respondents stated receiving a digital refund would be more convenient compared to waiting for a check in the… Read More

 Tagged digital payments, Melissa Hentschel, onbe, refunds