Paylink Solutions has partnered with online banking provider, Ecospend, to allow customers who’ve fallen behind with repayment plans to make instant payments and get back on track with their arrangements.

Customers will be sent a link for them to make the previously failed payments, either over the phone with an agent or online at a time that suits them.

Veteran compliance executive to enhance the Trulioo mission to establish trust online

Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, today announced the appointment of Reno Mathews as the company’s first Chief Compliance Officer. Mathews has 20 years of experience in building global compliance programs and leading remediation efforts related to regulatory enforcement actions in the banking, money service businesses, crypto and broker-dealer industries. Mathews is a former executive at Google and most recently Meta (aka Facebook).

Finaro names former Mastercard, Citi, DIMOCO and P3 Financial Group executives to lead ambitious sales and growth strategies in three of Europe’s fastest-growing eCommerce regions

With Finaro’s $575 million acquisition by Shift4, new appointments will identify and generate enhanced seamless payment opportunities for merchants and shoppers across Europe

Dynamic Planner, today announces the appointment of Christophe Ponette* as  Managing Director for Europe to lead the company’s EU expansion. Christophe was previously  the MD of Avaloq, the European Banking and Wealth Technology Provider for Benelux, speaks  multiple languages and has over 25 years’ experience working in sales and management positions  in European markets including The Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and Belgium.  

Rakuten Europe Bank adopts Temenos open platform for composable banking to enhance its member experience, speed the development of new payment products and enter new markets

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Rakuten Europe Bank – part of the Rakuten group, a unique ecosystem of 70+ businesses and over 1.6 billion members worldwide – has signed with Temenos to deliver banking services including Rakuten Pay on the Temenos Banking Cloud. Powered by Temenos open platform, Rakuten Europe Bank will accelerate its growth across Europe.

Funding led by HCAP Partners will support product development and the ongoing expansion of interoperability programs.

Saphyre, Inc., a leading FinTech company that leverages patented AI technology to structure all pre-trade data while eliminating post-trade inefficiencies, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its Series A round of $18.7 million, led by HCAP Partners, with J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas participating in the round. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

The first businesses in the Middle East and Africa region have started to experience the seamless ease of Mastercard’s Track Instant Pay solution, in partnership with leading pan-African fintech enablement partner, Ukheshe Technologies.

Track Instant Pay is a next-generation virtual card solution that uses machine learning and straight-through processing to enable instant payment of supplier invoices – the first of its kind.

KCB International Co., Ltd. in association with National Payments Corporation of India, SBI Card and Yatra.com announced the launch of a unique co-branded "RuPay JCB Yatra SBI Card Contactless Credit Card". This holiday-cum-shopping credit card is set to delight travellers and holiday lovers with exclusive travel benefits on booking flights and hotels which would be applicable 6 times a year. As a welcome onboarding gift, users of this card are entitled to Yatra.com vouchers worth INR 8250.