Global

September 11, 2022 @ 10:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Standard Chartered (LON: STAN) has completed an “industry-first” pilot testing of the Trade Financing Validation Service provided by MonetaGo over SWIFT, “to mitigate the risks of duplicate trade finance fraud on a global scale.” With a view to effectively detecting, deterring and preventing duplicate financing,… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 6:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Allica Bank – the bank built specifically to serve the needs of “established” SMEs – is aiming to make £500 million in committed loan offers “between September and the end of the year, as it continues to ramp up its support for UK SMEs facing… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

authID [Nasdaq: AUID], a provider of secure, mobile, biometric authentication solutions, announced that Kompliant, a U.S.-based, AI-driven, business onboarding and risk-scoring company, will “integrate authID’s biometric authentication platform Verified™ to stop identity fraud and automate digital onboarding for its customers.” Kompliant works with payment processors… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 5:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BIGG Digital Assets Inc. (CSE: BIGG), owner of Netcoins (Netcoins.ca), the online cryptocurrency brokerage that makes it easy for Canadians to buy, sell and understand cryptocurrency, and Blockchain Intelligence Group (blockchaingroup.io), a developer of blockchain technology search, risk-scoring and data analytics solutions, is pleased to… Read More

September 11, 2022 @ 5:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tech Nation recently welcomed what they claim to be the UK’s 51 “most exciting” Fintech companies to their fifth Fintech growth program, as UK fintech investment “reaches a record high.” As mentioned in the announcement, 51 companies were accepted into Tech Nation’s fifth Fintech growth… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 9:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Yapily is looking forward to teaming up with fintech unicorn Pleo, which offers a smart business spending solution, “to enable a simplified payments experience for its UK users.” Research shows that 82% of businesses that fail “do so as a result of… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 8:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Easy Payment & Finance, which claims to be a leading financial payment and technology enabler in Spain, announced it has chosen digital payments platform, Carta Worldwide, a subsidiary of Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO), to support its new card offering. Easy EP is reportedly among Spain’s major… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

oneZero, which claims to be a global leader in multi-asset enterprise trading technology solutions, announced that Australian headquartered Invast Global has selected oneZero for their core trading technology needs “across their global institutional business replacing several incumbent systems.” As a multi-asset provider of prime services,… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, has announced its partnership with Zai, the global financial technology company delivering embedded finance orchestration solutions. Together, TerraPay and Zai aim “to strengthen and unify the global payments ecosystem in Australia, by offering a seamless cross border payments experience… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 4:13 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial super app with over 20 million retail customers, has launched Revolut Pay – a new secure online checkout feature which “allows UK and EEA merchants to present ‘Revolut Pay’ as a payment method across product, cart, and checkout pages.” Revolut Pay… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 3:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Amaka and Square have extended their partnership “to launch the Square point of sale integration with Sage Accounting.” This follows the successful rollout of “a range of Square accounting automation solutions available globally.” Pedram Afshar, CEO at Amaka, said: “We’re proud to be working with… Read More

September 10, 2022 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Broadway, a provider of high-performance front-office solutions, announced it has partnered with MarketAxess Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, “to build and support… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Neo has announced a new partnership with Simplex by Nuvei, an EU-licensed financial institution that “empowers its vast network of partners to accept the widest range of payment methods.” This partnership will “provide users around the world with seamless onramps and offramps to NEO, GAS,… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 6:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), which claims to be the global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, will enable GOLDPoint Systems, a loan management software provider, “to digitalize its bill payments and enhance the entire customer experience with seamless transaction flow.” The ACI Speedpay solution “serves… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 11:51 am By JD Alois  |  

Leading Asian bank DBS is entering the metaverse to demonstrate how the virtual realm may be utilized for good. In partnership with The Sandbox, a subsidiary of Aninoca Brands, DBS will launch DBS BetterWorld. DBS is a Singapore-based bank that operates in 18 different markets… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 10:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OneSpan (NASDAQ: OSPN), the digital agreements security company, announced a significant expansion of its OneSpan Cloud Authentication service with BankID. BankID first launched with OneSpan in September 2021 and has already “reached a multi-million user milestone that is expected to continue growing as BankID’s technology… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 9:09 am By JD Alois  |  

Huobi Group has received a license to operate a digital asset exchange in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The approval came from the BVI Financial Services Commission (FSC) and was awarded to Huobi subsidiary Brtuomi Worldwide Limited (BWL). On April 16th, 2021, BWL was approved… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FNZ, the global wealth management platform, announced that it has agreed to acquire DIAMOS AG, the specialized Wealthtech provider for the asset and wealth management industry, “to further enhance its global wealth management platform.” The acquisition will “strengthen FNZ’s global client proposition adding advanced product… Read More

September 9, 2022 @ 7:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle, which claims to be the United Kingdom’s largest small business loan platform, has announced its results for the six months “ended 30 June 2022.” As noted in an update shared with CI, Funding Circle delivered “a financial performance ahead of expectations, finishing the… Read More

September 8, 2022 @ 11:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IDF Eurasia, a lending company specializing in consumer loans, has reportedly introduced a new cashback campaign. For a limited time, users are able to “earn a cashback of up to 2% for investments in IDF Eurasia Notes.” For IDF Eurasia’s entity MFO FintechFinance LLP, you… Read More