Retail payments usually reflect trends that illustrate the dynamics of the economic activity, on a given country, region, city, etc. The pandemic situation of COVID-19 certainly provides a picture of the evolution of such trends, with impacts felt all over the world, even if on different stages and on different degrees, while consequences will take time to be adequately and fully measured.

Fjarde AP-Fonden (Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund), The Builders Fund, New Markets Venture Partners and Hansa Impact Partners dissect the materiality, measurement, and importance of ‘Social’ Factors within ESG strategy

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Reuters Events hosts pioneers in the strategic integration of social factor into investment decision-making to give you exclusive insights:

From banking and shopping, to working and socializing, we all now live in a digital first society and there’s no intention of going back. This stage of our technological evolution may have already been in transit, however there is no doubt that COVID-19 has greatly increased the pace of change.

On Thursday, the 8^th Edition of Big BFSI Future Tech Show provided a comprehensive digital platform for hundreds of pre-qualified C-level Decision Makers and fintech enthusiasts to discuss India’s next big step in exploiting future technologies. The conference was hosted on the recently launched virtual events platform, vmeets that featured powerful keynotes, exciting panel discussions, technology use-cases, product showcases and other insightful sessions from key players in the BFSI sector.

Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading subscription management platform provider, today announced an expanded global partnership and new product integration with GoCardless, the leading fintech for recurring payments, to help companies across more than 30 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to process recurring payments faster and reduce payment-related costs and customer ch

JCB and Viva Wallet announce the extension of their partnership will enable contact and contactless payment between Viva Wallet’s European merchants and JCB’s 140 million cardmembers in both face-to-face and online commerce transactions.

Planixs, the provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management software Realiti®, and Infor, the enterprise company that provides cloud software products to over 68,000 organisations worldwide, are working together on a series of virtual events to promote the benefits of real-time intraday liquidity management to treasury departments.

The Global Supply Chain Finance Forum (GSCFF) – comprising BAFT (Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade), FCI, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA) and the Euro Banking Association (EBA) – today released a paper in response to growing concerns regarding the use of supply chain finance (SCF) and, in particular, payables finance programmes.

Xero today announces the acquisition of Waddle, a cloud based lending platform that helps small businesses access capital through invoice financing.

The acquisition aligns with Xero’s strategy to grow the small business platform and to address critical small business financial needs. Waddle’s best in class cloud lending platform, combined with small businesses’ invoice data, will enable the delivery of tailored invoice financing solutions.