Tagged: Myles Stephenson

June 23, 2023 @ 1:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Fintech Modulr has reportedly expanded its embedded payments product offerings to France and Spain. With this recent expansion move as well as a layer of localization, French and Spanish companies are able to leverage Modulr’s embedded payments solutions to enhance their market competitiveness within… Read More

June 13, 2022 @ 2:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scroll Finance, a “next-generation” Fintech offering “smart” financing solutions to homeowners, recently announced that Modulr, the embedded payments platform, will be powering its underlying payments infrastructure. The partnership will “enable Scroll to accelerate its mission to disrupt the homeowner financing sector in the UK.” Scroll… Read More

May 20, 2022 @ 8:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Modulr, an embedded payments platform for digital businesses, recently announced that it has raised $108m (£83m) in Series C funding that was led by General Atlantic, a global growth equity firm. The investment round also “included significant participation from existing investors including Blenheim Chalcot, Frog… Read More

February 8, 2022 @ 11:32 am By JD Alois  |  

Modulr, a Fintech providing Payments as a Service API, has partnered with regional bank Hodge to power a real-time digital banking experience to its customers. This is the first time Modulr has partnered with a traditional bank in this method. Modulr’services enable businesses to automate… Read More

February 6, 2022 @ 1:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, payments platform Modulr announced a partnership with Ripple, which claims to be the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, in order to enable payments into the UK and Europe. Trust Payments, the international unified payments group, is reportedly the first customer… Read More

January 25, 2022 @ 8:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Modulr, a payments Fintech based in Amsterdam, has been approved to operate as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) by De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB).  Modulr is already approved to operate as an EMI in the UK and Ireland. Modulr states that it doubled its lifetime payment… Read More

November 23, 2021 @ 8:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at UK-based Fintech Modulr says they wanted to let their community know that they’ve been named a 2021 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 winner. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 is one of the United Kingdom’s tech awards programs,… Read More

September 25, 2021 @ 10:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Modulr has now opened business offices in the Netherlands, which will serve as “the springboard for its EU-wide expansion in 2022 and 2023.” Following steady business growth in the United Kingdom during the last 5 years, Modulr is expanding rapidly, putting significant investment… Read More

July 21, 2021 @ 3:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Fintech firm Modulr reveals that they’ve managed to secure their Visa Ready certification, which supports customers in selecting the “best of breed payment solutions” that meet Visa’s international standards. As noted in an update from Modulr, the extended collaboration with Visa will help with… Read More

July 2, 2021 @ 12:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak outlined his vision for financial services in the UK. The Chancellor highlighted his goal of maintaining, and growing, the UK’s prominence in the finance industry – including the Fintech sector. Topics covered targeting Fintech included distributed ledger… Read More

April 22, 2021 @ 10:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Wednesday, a group of digital payment experts sat down at UK Fintech Week 2021 to discuss the industry’s growth and development through the years. During the breakout session, the group explored the digital payments “boom” and took a closer look at the success stories… Read More

April 22, 2021 @ 7:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

While attending a recently-held panel session for this year’s UK Fintech Week , moderator Kristy Duncan, CEO at Women in Payments, acknowledged that the United Kingdom and the European Union could potentially benefit from an updated regulatory framework that supports innovative projects and competition. As… Read More

April 13, 2021 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Modulr, a Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, has revealed that it received a strategic investment from the venture division of FIS. FIS intends to leverage Modulr‘s API-enabled payments infrastructure to carry out and automate real-time, B2B payments in the UK and… Read More

January 12, 2021 @ 1:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Digital bank Revolut has announced a new service: Confirmation of Payee – available to over 3 million UK customers. The feature is part of Pay.UK’s anti-fraud initiative, according to a release. The feature has been enabled by its payments partner Modulr, one of the few… Read More

November 18, 2020 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Payments as a Service Fintech Modulr has received a £9 million investment from PayPal Ventures to develop additional products and expand its customer base. Modulr is a Fintech service that integrates into any product or system. Users may automate payment flows, embed payments into their… Read More

October 29, 2020 @ 7:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Modulr, a Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, has introduced physical cards that are now available via its platform. The Modulr team noted: “Following popular demand, we have launched a card-issuing API, completing an end-to-end, one-stop solution for an entire card… Read More

October 21, 2020 @ 12:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Modulr, a Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, has revealed that its Dublin-based entity is now licensed as an electronic money institution (EMI) by the Central Bank of Ireland. The Modulr team noted: “This is an important step in enabling our… Read More

September 13, 2020 @ 9:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Myles Stephenson, the CEO at UK-based Fintech firm Modulr, says he’s pleased to announce that the financial service provider has become a principal issuing member of Mastercard. As explained by the company, this means that their products are “further embedded” in key financial infrastructure and… Read More

September 5, 2020 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earlier this week, Modulr reportedly became the very first non-bank or building society to join the Confirmation of Payee service, which allows people to check whether the payment details they’ve provided for an individual or company match the details that are held by the recipient’s… Read More

October 31, 2019 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Fintech firm Modulr revealed on October 30 that it’s planning to invest most of its £20 million in funding in Scotland’s financial technology sector, in order to promote innovation and support the nation’s role as a leading tech hub. Modulr’s investment-related decision has come after… Read More