February 13, 2024 @ 10:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE:V), a global enabler of digital payments, announced extended digital wallet capabilities within Visa Commercial Pay, a suite of B2B payment solutions built in partnership with Conferma Pay, the provider of virtual payments technology, to enhance how businesses manage transactions globally. The innovation enables… Read More

 Tagged b2b, conferma pay, digital payments, digital technology, digital wallets, gloria colgan, payments, virtual payments, visa, visa commercial pay

February 13, 2024 @ 8:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nordic Capital has signed an agreement to acquire a majority share in Zafin, a provider of SaaS core modernization and transformation solutions for financial institutions around the world. Zafin’s founders and management are said to be reinvesting in the company alongside Nordic Capital. Zafin is… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, al karim somji, banking, mohit agnihotri, nordic capital, Zafin

February 13, 2024 @ 8:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages, which claims to be the UK’s leading platform for mortgages, has launched a redesigned and updated Mortgages Portal now including LendInvest’s Buy-to-Let mortgages, providing brokers with a one-stop-shop for all LendInvest Mortgages products. Brokers can now access all Residential, Buy-to-Let, and Bridging products… Read More

 Tagged europe, lendinvest, lendinvest mortgages, mortgages, sophie mitchell-charman, uk, united kingdom

February 13, 2024 @ 7:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Marqeta (NASDAQ: MQ), the global modern card issuing platform enabling some of the world’s most innovative embedded finance solutions, announced its new customer, Internet Travel Solutions (ITS), a provider of travel management software that will utilize Marqeta’s comprehensive credit card platform to launch a multi-use… Read More

 Tagged embedded finance, internet travel solutions, marqeta, rick kumpf, travel

February 13, 2024 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NCR Atleos Corporation (NYSE: NATL) says that Banco Sabadell, a large Spanish bank, has selected Atleos as its ATM network partner to provide its customers with easy, secure access to cash and financial services outside of its branches. Banco Sabadell customers will soon be “able to… Read More

 Tagged atms, banco sabadell, banking, cx, daniel pelluz, diego navarrete, europe, ncr atleos, spain

February 12, 2024 @ 10:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Trumid recently reported its January performance. The electronic bond trading platform announced “record” monthly activity. Trumid, a financial technology company and fixed income electronic trading platform, reports record trade volume and user participation highlights for January 2024. January Highlights shared by Trumid are as follows:… Read More

 Tagged bonds, trumid

February 12, 2024 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial activities–from paying bills to checking bank balances to sending money to friends–have increasingly “moved online, making digital literacy critical to managing our finances,” according to an update from Capital One. Adam Davis, Vice President, Financial Health, Inclusion, and Liquidity at Capital One, said: “Financial… Read More

 Tagged capital one, digital literacy, research

February 12, 2024 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India is reportedly moving forward with the next few stages of its planned digital rupee pilot. This would add programmability and offline payment capability, according to a recent update. Like most major economies across the globe, India has been testing a retail CBDC or central… Read More

 Tagged cbdc, cbdcs, central bank digital currency, digital rupee, india, pilot

February 12, 2024 @ 6:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Businesses in Australia are reportedly faring well despite changing economic conditions, says Westpac’s latest business snapshot. Australian businesses are largely managing “slowing consumer demand and are cautiously optimistic as they head into 2024.” Westpac’s latest Quarterly Business Snapshot), which “analyzes millions of daily business banking… Read More

 Tagged anthony miller, australia, besa deda, business report, Digital Economy, research, survey, westpac

February 12, 2024 @ 3:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Payments Canada Board of Directors announced that Tracey Black, who joined Payments Canada in 2018, made the decision not to renew her term as President and CEO of Payments Canada. Over the last five years, Black has led “a series of major payment modernization… Read More

 Tagged board of directors, canada, new appointments, payments, payments canada, tracey black