For the second consecutive year, global markets technology platform provider Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) captured the award for Derivatives Trading System of the Year for its TT platform at the 2023 FOW International Awards. The awards were presented at a dinner ceremony last night, following the Trading London Conference.

PayGround, a healthcare fintech payments platform, today announced closing a $19.7M oversubscribed Series A financing led by SixThirty with participation from Rally Ventures, IA Capital Group, FCA Venture Partners and Plug and Play Ventures.

NomuPay, a modern end-to-end payment platform purpose-built for expansion into regions of high cross-border and e-commerce growth, has acquired merchant services and bespoke payment processing solution provider, Total Processing. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. NomuPay has confirmed the deal is a mixture of stock and cash.

Thales today released the latest iteration of the 2023 Thales Data Threat Report – Financial Services edition. This year’s report finds much higher levels of credential-based attacks in this sector than the average enterprise (56% versus 42%), with greater concerns around ransomware, quantum computing and even human error leading to breaches.

In the world of auditing, professionals are no strangers to an array of difficult challenges that can sometimes significantly impact their efficiency and accuracy.

Starling Bank is working with GFT, the global digital transformation pioneer, as an implementation partner for its Software-as-a-Service business, Engine by Starling.

In the modern digital economy, card-not-present (CNP) transactions have become commonplace. However, these transactions bring with them the significant threat of payment card fraud and data breaches. A promising solution to this problem is on the horizon: network tokenisation. This innovative technology bolsters the security of digital commerce transactions by ensuring the safety of shared and stored data.

Issuer processing powerhouse Enfuce, announced today an €8.5m follow-on investment round, led by Vitruvian Partners with participation from Maki.vc and Visa, a world leader in digital payments. This follows Enfuce's €45m Series C funding round initiated in 2021. Enfuce has raised a total of €62m to date.    

New research from GoCardless, the bank payment company, finds that 45% of consumers say they donate regularly to charity today -- only a slight drop from the 49% who did so last year, even as the cost of living continues to rise.