Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for merchants to accept payments, today announces new research highlighting a potential skills gap in the payments industry.  

There are more than 4 million small businesses in the UK which have no viable alternative to debit card payments and are reliant on Mastercard or Visa payment rails. Challenging this status quo, UK fintech Atoa Payments is announcing a $2.2M pre-seed funding round to reduce by 70% the payment fees and offer a new approach to making payments. 

Aussie fintech Nine25 today announced its partnership with cloud-based payroll platform, KeyPay, launching a first-to-market open payroll data and Salary Streaming™ platform. 

The fintech world is getting ready for the next iFX EXPO Dubai edition that will take place 16-18 January 2023 at Dubai World Trade Centre. With booths and sponsorships booked in a record time, this show is expected to be the largest iFX EXPO event ever held in the MENA region. iFX EXPO Dubai 2023 will host 40% more exhibitors than the previous Dubai edition and will welcome around 3500 attendees from all over the world.

iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, is today announcing the integration of its B2B payment solution iwocaPay with leading ecommerce software WooCommerce. 

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, today announced its partnership with Dutch online gaming operator BetCity to enable instant payouts for customers, powered by open banking.

This is the latest move by a European operator to ensure players are no longer left waiting to receive their winnings. 

OKX, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, has launched three new leading offerings that are granting its retail and institutional users greater visibility into their assets, and what is backing them, as well as greater control over their funds.

Novo, the powerfully simple fintech platform for small businesses, announced that GGV Capital has joined the company’s Series B as a strategic investor with an additional $35 million. This brings Novo’s Series B to $125 million, and total equity funding to more than $170 million. Robin Li, Principal, GGV Capital will join the board as an observer.

Impactsure Technologies (Impactsure), an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) powered document analytics SaaS company for Banks and Enterprises, today announced the availability of its Secure Unified Responsive Engine (SURE)-based SureMatch platform on Temenos Exchange, the open market place for fintech solutions. Temenos is the digital and core banking solution provider for prominent global banks.

11th Global Islamic Microfinance Forum was successfully concluded at Metropolitan Hotel Dubai, UAE under the patronage of AAOIFI Bahrain. The purpose of that forum was to promote, strengthen and unite the organizations of Islamic microfinance (IsMF) with the theme of financial Inclusion, outreach strategies & innovations. Eminent Speakers and industry professionals from well-serving organizations related to Microfinance, Islamic microfinance, micro-insurance and NGOs participated in the event.