Tagged: europe

November 7, 2022 @ 12:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global fund data and technology company FE fundinfo has expanded the range of ESG data it provides to MSCI and its clients. Through the agreement, MSCI will “gain access to FE fundinfo’s full universe of European ESG Template (EET) data.” EET data plays “a critical… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BlueSnap, the payment orchestration platform for B2B and B2C businesses, has expanded its partnership with eCommerce agency, objectsource in order “to support online sellers across Europe.” The paytech firm has teamed up with the London-based consultancy “to enhance its integration with popular shopping cart plug-in… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a global player focused on payment services, has integrated its Fraud Management Suite into the issuing platform of Finnish bank S-Bank. Supported by Worldline technology, S-Bank will “deploy extensive real-time fraud detection for debit and credit cards whilst increasing the efficiency of… Read More

November 7, 2022 @ 7:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Plend is pleased to announce that they have raised £40 million in seed funding with new investors “including Leon & Soho House backers Active Partners, plus Velocity Juice, Sivo and the founders from Monzo, Starling Bank and Oodle Car Finance.” The investment round “includes existing… Read More

November 6, 2022 @ 10:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), which claims to be the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, recently announced a partnership with Teamwork Commerce, a mobile POS and OMS omnichannel retail solution, in the U.S. and Europe. Integrating Adyen’s technology and Teamwork’s cloud-based mobile POS… Read More

November 5, 2022 @ 4:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Arqit Quantum Inc. (Nasdaq: ARQQ), a key player in quantum-safe encryption, has signed a contract with Nine23 Ltd, a cybersecurity solutions provider for UK regulated and compliant sectors, “to deploy Arqit’s QuantumCloud™, a symmetric key agreement software, on Nine23’s UK Sovereign Secure Private Cloud infrastructure… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 10:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sustainability and climate protection are “central challenges” of our time. Therefore, the EU is successively “obliging companies, credit institutions and other financial service providers to make the sustainability of their economic activities measurable within the framework of the EU Taxonomy Regulation.” The aim is “to… Read More

November 4, 2022 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26, The Mobile Bank, announced the appointment of its new group Supervisory Board “as it continues to evolve its governance structures in preparation for the next stages of development.” The latest appointments “will see Marcus W. Mosen, Jörg Gerbig, Dr. Barbara Roth, Dr. Julian Deutz… Read More

November 1, 2022 @ 7:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gillian Lynch, Head of Ireland and EU operations at Gemini, notes that the digital asset firm is pleased “to announce that individuals and institutions in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Czechia, Latvia, and Liechtenstein can now open a Gemini account to deposit, trade, and custody over 100 cryptocurrencies.”… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Molo Finance has partnered with Brilliant Solutions, a distributor of mortgages that sits between mortgage brokers and lenders. This partnership “further underlines Molo’s ambitions to offer fully-digital mortgages on a larger scale and it will provide Brilliant Solutions’ membership of directly authorized (DA) brokers with… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Banking Circle S.A. is set to help US payments providers expand out of the domestic market with low-cost and fast cross-border payments across 25 currencies. Underlining the momentum it has gained as an alternative to correspondent banking for cross-border payments, Banking Circle S.A. is “forecasting… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 7:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Adyen (AMS: ADYEN)  has broadened its offering by taking live two new embedded financial products – Capital and Accounts – which are now “available to platform and marketplace businesses in the US and Europe via Adyen’s single integration.” Adyen, the global financial technology platform of… Read More

October 31, 2022 @ 7:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Payer, the B2B technology company specializing in digital conversion, payments, and finance automation, with a mission to digitalize the B2B industry wherever payments play a central role, has announced that it will now facilitate American Express payments “across the Nordics in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), which claims to be a pioneer in cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry, announced its partnership with Ashman Bank, a new entrant bank with plans “to transform the banking experience for UK property SMEs, a… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 11:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Embedded finance integrator AAZZUR and alternative asset manager Channel Capital have formed “an embedded lending partnership.” The multi-faceted partnership will “see AAZZUR supporting Channel’s digital SME lending strategy.” Channel has invested significantly in “developing proprietary systems using APIs, Open Banking and cloud-based technologies to provide… Read More

October 30, 2022 @ 4:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As the financiers of two-thirds of the European economy, banks “bear an important responsibility to propose real solutions to mitigate climate change.” This partnership between Swedbank and eAgronom with regard to issuing sustainability-linked loans and leasing will have “a significant impact, as agriculture is one… Read More

October 29, 2022 @ 11:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European investment platform Lightyear has rolled out voting alongside in-app communication, “giving shareholders and publicly traded companies a seamless way to engage with each other.” This feature is “a first for many countries around Europe, where this level of ownership and transparency is lacking for… Read More

October 28, 2022 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Raisin, which claims to be the global leader for the savings and investment market, has announced the migration of its UK platform ClearBank, the “enabler of secure accounts, real-time clearing, and embedded banking for financial institutions.” ClearBank will “underpin the FSCS protected account Raisin UK… Read More

October 27, 2022 @ 8:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Juni is pleased to share that they have secured their Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from Swedish regulator Finansinspektionen. This is “a first step to enable [them] to issue e-money in Sweden and in time, across Europe.” According to the firm, this… Read More

October 26, 2022 @ 11:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

YuLife, the tech-driven financial services brand on a mission to inspire life, announced that it is launching in the United States. Founded in London in 2016, YuLife claims it “achieved rapid traction in the UK insurance market through its flagship product, group life insurance.” The… Read More