valU, MENA’s leading Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) lifestyle-enabling fintech platform, announced today that it acquired 100% of Paynas, a full-fledged employee management and benefits company that provides financial services to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) in a signing ceremony attended by Dr. Rania A. Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation.

The leading Fintech & Insurtech innovation ecosystem with hubs in Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain announces the world’s first dedicated Climate Fintech incubation program across the Nordics & Baltics – expanding its reach within Europe.

In a move to power women-led small businesses in India, Telangana’s state-led incubator for women entrepreneurs, WE Hub has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Tide, the UK’s leading SME-focused business financial platform. This year-long partnership is set to elevate Tide’s India Chapter of ‘Women in Business’ and enable aspiring women entrepreneurs across India to both start and grow their businesses and overcome administrative challenges.

Since the beginning of 2022, several trends have emerged as newsworthy front-runners. CTO Wayne Yan and architect Saša Slankamenac at South African specialised software development firm Dariel, take a closer look at Web3, passwordless authentication, artificial intelligence and machine learning as three trends likely to make the biggest impact in the coming months.

Paysend, the UK-based Fintech which has over 7 million customers, has partnered with Currencycloud, the experts in simplifying business in a multi-currency world, to expand the capabilities of Paysend Business, its new digital end-to-end payments solution created to help small to medium enterprises (SMEs) take control of their financial health and accelerate their growth.
 

Rippleshot, a provider of proactive fraud detection and prevention solutions to payment processors and financial institutions, announced today a partnership with Flashpoint, the globally trusted leader in actionable intelligence, to pair Rippleshot’s compromised and high-risk merchant data and insights with Flashpoint’s Payment and Credit Card Fraud Mitigation solution.

Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that Robbie McDonnell has joined the firm as Sales Director, Australia & New Zealand. McDonnell is a nearly 30-year veteran of financial markets technology, serving in a variety of senior roles, including in global sales and regional expansion in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region.

The global online payment industry is assessed to rise from $83.27 billion in 2011 to just under $100 billion by the end of the year 2022, growing at an outstanding rate of 15.6% per year. This indicates the industry is driving from strength to strength as many new solutions, concepts, and innovations are being invented.

NICE Actimize, a NICE business, today announced that Olivetree Financial, a UK-based high-touch multi-asset broker that is part of Alvar Financial Services Ltd., has chosen NICE Actimize’s advanced cloud SURVEIL-X Markets Surveillance solution to deliver upon its enhanced financial crime strategy, to monitor market abuse and keep pace with regulatory

Ebury, a global financial services firm and one of Europe’s largest fintechs, is delighted to announce that it has further expanded its global footprint by establishing two new offices in Perth (Australia) and Vancouver (Canada).

The new offices enable Ebury to better service increasing demand from companies in these regions for an alternative, specialist provider of foreign exchange and other corporate banking services.