Metaco announces today its cooperation with DZ BANK AG, the central institution to the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative financial network, one of the largest banking groups in Germany.

In 2022, the countries of South & Southeast Asia saw a YoY decline of 83% in new fintechs, with only 349 startups emerging in the region. However, the volume of investments has not decreased so dramatically, with investors choosing less risky strategies, as revealed by the analytical centre of Robocash Group.

Temenos has been awarded AnchorGold Class distinction in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook for 2023 with the highest score (80/100) for the Software industry.

As an industry first, Wagepay, the earned-wages access fintech based in Brisbane, has switched on  PayTo for real-time customer payments. This has been done in partnership with Monoova, the award-winning Sydney-based payment service provider. 

The global skills shortage is undoubtedly a topic amongst many businesses' boardrooms of late, and reality is hitting hard as three-quarters (75%) of companies confirm that they can't find the skills they need – a 16-year high. 

Today, Coincover, the leading digital asset protection company, announces a new partnership with Cobo, the largest digital asset custodian and blockchain infrastructure provider in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. This news comes shortly after Coincover’s recent successful $30 million funding round.  

Kepler Cheuvreux, the leading independent European financial services company, is the first financial institution to adopt Opensee's cloud service for trade management and execution analytics. Kepler Cheuvreux, through its Execution activity KCX, will deploy the solution developed and tailored to its needs by Opensee, the leading platform providing financial institutions with multi-dimensional, real-time access to their data. 

DirectID, a UK-based, global fintech specializing in credit risk, risk analytics and predictive modelling, using bank transaction data, today announced that Ingka Investments, the investments arm of Ingka Group, has made a EUR 9m minority investment in the company.

Nethone, the challenger machine learning-based fraud prevention company that enables eCommerce merchants and financial institutions to holistically understand their end-users, has been awarded ISO 27001 certification by the International Organisation for Standardization.

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, has today announced its collaboration with the UK problem debt detection and prevention app SuperFi, which will provide open banking variable recurring payments (VRPs) to help customers repay borrowings and avoid fees.