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Velo Payments Partners with Mastercard to Modernize Business Payments Globally

5 years 10 months ago
Payments

Velo and Mastercard (NYSE:MA) today announced a partnership to modernize the $125 Trillion global business payments market. The agreement will see Velo operate as both a Buyer and Supplier Agent for Mastercard’s Track Business Payment Service. Track was built to simplify and automate the exchange of payments-related data between the world’s Buyers and Suppliers - one of the first open loop commercial solutions to do so.

Digiterre Launches DataMax to Help Technology Teams Accelerate Growth in Data-Driven Organisations

5 years 10 months ago
Data, Consultancy

Digiterre, a software and data engineering consultancy, today announced the launch of DataMax, an enterprise platform for technology teams to manage and analyse big data. It can be used in complex organisations where the integration, management and analysis of large and complex data sets, in the form of market, networks and relationships, or operational data, such as in trades and transactions, need to be conducted rapidly and in real-time, to...

Salt Edge streamlines the PSD2 onboarding with banks to save TPPs thousands of work hours

5 years 10 months ago
Banking

Salt Edge announced the release of a new feature that allows third party providers (TPPs) to register quicker with the desired banks’ PSD2 channels in the whole of Europe. Dynamic registration aims to save TPPs thousands of man-hours on onboarding with banks.

SmartStream strengthens its presence in Asia with the senior appointment of Victoria Harverson

5 years 10 months ago
People Moves

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, strengthens its presence in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong with the appointment of Victoria Harverson. In her leadership role she joins the sales team in the regional head office based in Singapore, and reports to Radha Pillay, Head of Sales Apac.

Exactpro awarded Innovation accolade for Blockchain project with R3

5 years 10 months ago
Blockchain, Infrastructure

Exactpro, a leading software testing provider for financial market infrastructures, is pleased to announce the receipt of QA Financial’s “Automation Technology Project of the Year: Exactpro and R3” award, in recognition of its work with R3’s Corda Enterprise Distributed Ledger Technology (‘DLT’).

Know Your Customer is the driving force behind CSLB-Asia's KYC compliance in corporate services

5 years 10 months ago
AML and KYC, Consultancy

CSLB-Asia, providers of family office, corporate secretarial and commercial business consultancy services, have announced their collaboration with award-winning RegTech company Know Your Customer across the APAC region.

4 reasons why you shouldn't miss Khaleej Times Remote Workforce Summit 2020

5 years 10 months ago
Covid-19, Infrastructure

This virtual event aims to bridge the gap between office workstation and your own remote work zone.

Pelican connects over 2,000 banks with OBWG and Berlin Group interoperable APIs

5 years 10 months ago
Artificial Intelligence, Security and Compliance

Pelican AI, a global provider of AI-powered payments and financial crime compliance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced that the Pelican API Interoperability Hub now offers open API connections to 2,187 banks across Europe. This is an important milestone for PSD2 connectivity Europe-wide with connectivity spanning 29 countries. The connected banks already in live production include 46 in the UK, 30 in Belgium, 13 in the...

Moorwand and K Wearables partner to give away 300 free K Rings to fearless NHS staff

5 years 10 months ago
Covid-19

Payment providers, Moorwand and K Wearables, have today announced a giveaway of 300 K Rings for NHS staff as a show of appreciation for their hard work fighting the coronavirus pandemic. After recently migrating to Moorwand for issuing, bin sponsorship and digital banking services, K Wearables, the contactless payment ring provider, and Moorwand would like say thank you to the fearless frontline NHS staff in the best way they know how.

PayGuard® Chooses Nuapay for Open Banking Payments

5 years 10 months ago
Open Banking, Payments

Leading provider of account to account payment solutions, Nuapay, today announces that it has been selected by PayGuard® a brand of Fusion Telecom to provide open banking payment services to its call centre customers. This is the first known deployment of open banking payments for telephone orders.

Bitcoin halving highlights crypto is part of mainstream finance: deVere CEO

5 years 10 months ago
Bitcoins

Bitcoin’s historic halving event on Monday underscores that the “long-term future of cryptocurrencies is secure”, says the CEO and founder of one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory organisations. The comments from deVere Group’s Nigel Green come as the world’s supply of Bitcoin was forever slashed on Monday. The highly anticipated halving event, occurring only every four years, means that less and less Bitcoin – which is...

Wirecard and Varengold Bank Partner to Provide Financing and Market-leading Payment Solutions to FinTech firms

5 years 10 months ago
Payments

Wirecard, the global innovation leader for digital financial technology, and Varengold Bank, a leading provider of FinTech financing, announced today the launch of a new strategic cooperation. Together, Wirecard and Varengold Bank will provide ambitious FinTechs looking to scale their operations with access to capital to refinance their loan portfolios, combined with a comprehensive set of white-label payment solutions.

Swiss tech firm raises $4 million in Series A funding round

5 years 10 months ago
Fund Management

Locatee, the leading workplace analytics solution that provides office utilisation intelligence for corporate real estate leaders and managers, today announced that it has secured $4 million in Series A funding.

illimity launches first PIS Platform

5 years 10 months ago
Payments

illimitybank.com, the illimity Group’s digital direct bank, is introducing the Payment Initiation Service (PIS) in Italy for the first time ever, a system which enables customers to make payments from accounts of other banks consolidated on its platform.