Challenger consultancy 11:FS has launched a new podcast, Fintech Insider: Focus, in partnership with Visa.

Co-hosted by 11:FS Group CEO and Co-Founder David M. Brear alongside regional experts from Visa, the show dives into challenges, opportunities, and trends across key regions with deep insights coming from Visa’s regional co-hosts and local guests.

ACI Worldwide, a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, today announced the expansion of the global reach of its industry-leading, real-time payments software solutions. ACI now powers 25 domestic and pan-regional real-time schemes across six continents — including nine central infrastructures — providing solutions to central banks, participant banks, fintechs and other payment service providers.
 

Having integrated cTrader in 2022, B2Broker has continued to expand its product portfolio, with Match-Trader being the most recent addition that has been made. B2Broker, a global provider of liquidity and technology for the FX and cryptocurrencies markets, is extending its white label liquidity service with the integration of Match-Trader.

Paymentology, the world’s first truly global issuer-processor, has joined forces with cloud-native core banking platform 10x to provide pre-integrated credit and debit card issuing and processing.    

Today, ConsenSys, a market-leading blockchain technology company, announced its newest initiative, MetaMask Learn. MetaMask Learn is a free-to-use resource available in 10 languages for anyone interested in learning about web3. It provides an interactive MetaMask UI environment to help onboard those new to self-custody, and guides users through the most common topics to help them get started in web3. 

A new report published today by Mobey Forum’s Digital Identity Expert Group has identified unique opportunities for banks to leverage their position as custodians of personal data to offer value-added digital identity services and become brokers of trust in the digital economy. The report suggests that for digital identity systems to succeed, banks must bridge the divide between private and public sector and drive adoption of so-called digital identity wallets.

AppTech Payments Corp. (the “Company” or “AppTech”), an innovative Fintech company powering seamless, omni-channel commerce between businesses and consumers, announced today that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with a single institutional investor to purchase approximately $5 million of its common stock in a registered direct offering and warrants to purchase common stock in a concurrent private placement.

Businesses must tackle late payments to unlock growth for the UK’s small businesses, according to the campaigning organisation Good Business Pays.

Continuing its impressive growth into the new year, award-winning payments fintech Highline Technologies today announced that Rebecca Mowat has joined the company as its new Director of Partnerships.

Finastra today unveiled Finastra ALM IQ, a risk management solution available for banks from March 2023. The unique cloud-based balance sheet management tool enables small and medium-sized banks to make confident decisions in shorter timeframes, making them more competitive against larger financial institutions.