Interswitch Partners With Temenos to Scale Digital Banking Services Across Africa
- 2 weeks 1 day ago
- Digital banking
Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, and Interswitch Group, a leading integrated payments and digital commerce company in Africa, today announced a collaboration, wherein Interswitch will adopt Temenos technology to enhance its digital banking capabilities, supporting its growth and expanding access to modern financial services across the continent.
Broadridge Appoints Ignacio Escobedo as Premier Account Leader for Southern Europe
- 2 weeks 1 day ago
- People Moves
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc, today announced that Ignacio Escobedo has joined the company as Premier Account Leader (PAL) for Southern Europe. In this role, Escobedo will focus on strengthening enterprise-wide client relationships and accelerating growth across some of Broadridge’s most strategic accounts in the region.
Money20/20 Europe’s Policy 20 Summit Brings Central Banks and Tech Titans Together to Discuss Regulation for the Next Generation of Finance
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- RegTech
Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, and the place where money does business, today convened senior policymakers, regulators, central banks, supervisors, and industry leaders for Policy 20 at Money20/20 Europe. The session held at the RAI in Amsterdam was a high-level forum focused on one of the defining challenges facing financial services: the cross-border implications of diverging policies, implementation, and technological momentum.
UK Banks and Fintechs Join Forces to Launch New Payment Scheme
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Infrastructure
Today at Money2020, UK Payments Initiative Ltd (UKPI) launched a scheme designed for the next-generation of open banking payments, marking a turning point in the availability of alternatives to traditional card-based and direct debit payments.
Standard Chartered Appoints Shebani Baweja as Group Chief Data Officer
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- People Moves
Standard Chartered today announced the appointment of Shebani Baweja as Group Chief Data Officer (CDO) with immediate effect. Shebani will be reporting to Alvaro Garrido, Chief Operating Officer for Technology & Operations (T&O) and Chief Information Officer for Information Security & Data, and will be based in Singapore.
AlphaSense Raises $350M at $7.5B Valuation and Surpasses $600M in Annual Recurring Revenue
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Fundraising News
AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced the close of a $350 million funding round valuing the company at $7.5 billion – nearly double its most recent $4 billion valuation and bringing its total funding to well over $1 billion. This new financing follows AlphaSense’s rapid enterprise adoption and strong business momentum, with the company exceeding $600 million of annual...
Trustfull Launches Investigator to Accelerate Fraud Analysis Through Conversational AI
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Fraud Detection
Fraud prevention company Trustfull has launched Investigator, a new conversational AI solution designed to help fraud teams assess risk signals and investigate suspicious activity faster.
ExtraHop® and Ignition Expand Partnership to Drive Agentic SOC Innovation Across North America
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
ExtraHop®, a leader in modern network detection and response (NDR), today announced it has expanded its partnership with Ignition, operating under Exclusive Networks, in North America.
European Consumers Fear Political Tensions Could Restrict Their Payments
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Payments
New research from Europe’s card issuing and processing powerhouse Enfuce, reveals that the majority of consumers (62%), as well as payment providers (75%), are concerned that geopolitical tensions could result in foreign-controlled payment networks restricting or even stopping payments in their market. The first study on attitudes towards this issue shows that support for European alternatives like Wero is strong – but adoption will not be...
Introducing Flute: Payments Built for the Everyday Economy
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Infrastructure
Aurora Payments today announced its rebrand as Flute, alongside the launch of a unified payments platform built for the growing businesses that power the everyday economy. Flute brings payments, working capital, transaction reporting and merchant servicing into a single account for the millions of merchants across the independent retail, personal services, professional services and hospitality industries.
Checkout.com Scales Stablecoin Settlement for US Merchants in Partnership With Fireblocks
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Payments
Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, announced today a new partnership with Fireblocks, the enterprise platform securing more than $14 trillion in digital asset transactions, to bring stablecoin settlement to US enterprise merchants at scale. The solution gives eligible merchants the ability to receive settlement funds as stablecoins into their preferred stablecoin wallet, with a payment rail that operates 24/7/365.
Fraudio Appoints Payments Pioneer Robert Kraal to Board of Directors
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- People Moves
Fraudio, a leading provider of AI-driven fraud and transaction risk intelligence, has appointed former Adyen COO and Silverflow co-founder, Robert Kraal, to its Board of Directors.
Starburst Unveils Enterprise Intelligence Platform at AI+Datanova, Giving Enterprises a Faster Path to Trusted AI
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
At its annual AI & Datanova event, Starburst announced the Starburst Enterprise Intelligence Platform, enabling enterprises to run AI directly on governed data across distributed environments. At the centre of the platform is AIDA, now generally available, which brings AI-powered intelligence directly into the workflows, applications, and agents where business users work.
ClearBank Europe Signs Agreement With ByBit EU to Provide Banking Infrastructure and Safeguarding Across Europe
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Banking
ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announces a new strategic partnership with Bybit EU, the Vienna-headquartered crypto-asset service provider operating under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR, to deliver core banking infrastructure in support of its European growth.
Airwallex Reveals Outdated Payment Systems Cost Global Businesses $330 Billion Every Year
- 2 weeks 2 days ago
- Payments
New research from Airwallex, a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, has revealed legacy payment systems are tying up billions in working capital and slowing global economic growth.
