MENA-based BaaS provider and modern card issuer processor NymCard partnered with e-money platform and card issuer, Instapay to help MENA’s fintech’s expansion plans across Asia. The strategic partnership allows NymCard to enable its MENA clients to start scaling across Asia starting with Malaysia.

NymCard’s modern open API platform will power MENA and Malaysian fintechs by enabling them to launch innovative payment card programs at speed.

TruNarrative has been chosen by the Rational Group, home of the cutting-edge FX and payment companies RationalFX and Xendpay, to boost its customer onboarding and identity verification processes and deliver a seamless customer experience. 

Established in 2005, RationalFX is a market-leading foreign exchange and international payments company. RationalFX has facilitated over $12 billion of international payments for their 180,000+  registered clients across over 170 countries. 

 SEI, announced today it has extended its contract with UK wealth manager Netwealth Investments Limited (Netwealth) for a further five years.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) has announced the appointment of Nandika Buddhipala MCSI as President of its Sri Lanka National Advisory Council (NAC).

Nandika takes over from Nihal Fonseka FCSI(Hon), who became founding President in 2011.

The author is Maxim Bederov. 

The once strict lines separating traditional finance and crypto finance are melting away. And it could lead to once-unthinkble cryptoasset prices much sooner than any of us believed possible. 

Digital transformation alongside automation enablers like artificial intelligence (AI) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), coupled with the responsible utilisation of data assets will be determining business success factors over the next five years, according to Grant Phillips, Group CEO at e4.

Multi-award-winning payments processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), today announces that it has joined forces with Currencycloud, the experts simplifying business in a multi-currency world, to widen access to cross-border payments for financial institutions and fintechs, providing a passport to a post-COVID world.

●       Avast uncovers regional cybercrime differences across the UK, following research with the University of Birmingham

●       London and Wales most affected by cybercrime while the north of England reports significantly lower levels of victimisation

●       Findings draw attention to a gap in cybercrime perception versus reality in the UK with several regions underestimating the actual levels of cybercrime

Crown Agents Bank Ltd (“CAB”) is pleased to announce they have been selected as a new banking partner by Cambridge Global Payments (“Cambridge”), a FLEETCOR company and a provider of integrated cross-border payments and currency risk management solutions. The partnership allows Cambridge to expand its global banking footprint to facilitate payments across emerging and frontier markets in APAC and Africa.

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics announced an agreement with Unisys to become a Unisys Stealth Value-Added Distributor (VAD) in EMEA, initially focussing on the UK, Germany and France.