June 17, 2024 @ 8:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) and Thought Machine, a cloud-native banking technology company, are advancing their partnership to deliver high-quality payments and core banking (critical back-end technology for product and account management and the customer ledger) capabilities to financial institutions looking to modernize their technology stack. Mastercard’s… Read More

 Tagged banking, cloud, mastercard, thought machine

June 17, 2024 @ 3:10 pm By JD Alois  |  

According to a report, Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) product will shut down later this year. Apple Pay Later was expected to be the first digital loan-type service offered by the tech firm, but it appears that Apple is pulling back on the Fintech lending. According to 9to5… Read More

 Tagged apple, bnpl

June 17, 2024 @ 12:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PensionBee Group plc is pleased to announce that it has achieved Assets under Administration of over £5 billion, reaching 250,000 Invested Customers in June 2024. According to PensionBee, these important milestones have been “achieved through the continued delivery of the company’s strategy, driven by a… Read More

 Tagged milestone, pensionbee, pensions, uk

June 17, 2024 @ 10:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Laura Bayley, Head Clearing Services, SIX, has been appointed as new SWIFT Board Member, the world’s provider of secure financial messaging services. SWIFT’s Board composition is designed to “ensure SWIFT‘s global relevance, support its international reach and uphold its strict neutrality.” Laura Bayley is Head… Read More

 Tagged financial services, laura bayley, six, swift, women changing finance

June 17, 2024 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois  |  

In the UK, the Fintech industry “remains a hotbed” for innovation, driving employment needs – mostly in London. According to a report distributed by Morgan McKinley, the “demand for tech-savvy professionals in the Fintech industry has significantly increased, reflecting the sector’s ongoing digital transformation.” Morgan… Read More

 Tagged employment, morgan mckinley, united kingdom

June 17, 2024 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) announced the relaunch of Visa SavingsEdge, aimed at delivering greater value to small businesses (SMBs) across the United States and Canada. For more than a decade, Visa SavingsEdge has provided “eligible Small Business cardholders with the savings, tools and resources to… Read More

 Tagged savings, visa

June 17, 2024 @ 8:28 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, 40Seas, a platform dedicated to financing, managing, and automating B2B payments worldwide, announced the launch of its all-in-one Global Accounts Receivable solution to simplify credit, risk, and invoice management. The 40Seas Global Accounts Receivable platform centralizes invoice data in a user-friendly dashboard, allowing… Read More

 Tagged 40seas, Eyal Moldovan, Global Accounts Receivable, Jonathan Frankel, payments, Portless

June 17, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

DNA Payments is bringing more flexible payment options to the payments space, being one of the first to market in the UK by launching Open Banking for its axept PRO payment terminals, offering merchants even more ways for their customers to pay. The introduction of… Read More

 Tagged dna payments, flexible payments, open banking, uk, united kingdom

June 17, 2024 @ 7:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR), the enabler of integrated payments and commerce technology, has acquired a majority stake in Vectron Systems AG, one of the largest European suppliers of point-of-sale (POS) systems to the restaurant and hospitality verticals. Based in Germany, Vectron has ~65,000 POS locations “across… Read More

 Tagged europe, germany, payments, Shift4, vectron

June 17, 2024 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Prosper, the savings and investments wealthtech founded by Nick Perrett and Ricky Knox, formerly of Tandem Bank, has reached its £800,000 Crowdcube target before launching to the public. Nick Perrett, Prosper’s CEO said: “We have been overwhelmed by the early show of support in the… Read More

 Tagged crowdcube, prosper, savings, uk, united kingdom