PEXA, a world-leading technology provider, behind the world’s first digital property exchange process, has today announced it has chosen 114 Wellington Street in West Village, Leeds, for its new UK headquarters. PEXA will collaborate with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority as it sets up its new headquarters and prepares to invest in the region and its workforce.

There are many terms for those who lack a traditional credit history – thin-filed, credit invisible, unbanked, underbanked. It’s estimated that nearly 80 per cent of adults worldwide are either underbanked or unbanked. It’s time for a sea change in the entire financial services industry. Without acknowledging this and taking the requisite action, the industry will remain prejudicial and oppressive by default. But a desire to change must be paired with the capacity to push credit decisioning to the edge.

Global pressures have made consumers more uncertain and unpredictable, finds a new survey conducted by Twilio, the customer engagement platform. As a result, 48% of marketers are now questioning the value of traditional customer segmentation through demographic data. Instead, they are placing renewed importance on real-time personalisation (71%), and seek more budget flexibility in where and what they’re investing in (65%).

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Building on Europe’s world-leading payments regulation framework, Modulr today announces the next stage in its European growth with a deeper presence and product functionality specifically for the French and Spanish markets.

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, announces a new global partnership with Shopify, a provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, to strengthen e-commerce capabilities, simplify the customer journey and solve payment complexity for enterprise merchants.

Oxane Partners ("Oxane"), a leading technology-driven solutions provider to private markets, announced that it has won the Portfolio and Risk Management Technology award at the Drawdown Awards 2023. The winners were announced on June 7, 2023, at an awards ceremony held at the Hilton Bankside in London. This recognition further extends Oxane’s award-winning streak as the portfolio and risk management solution provider of choice for private markets.

Shopify is known for helping high-growth brands disrupt the status quo, setting conversion records, and offering the world’s best checkout. Enterprise retailers want access to this innovation too—which is why we’ve made our technology available to the biggest brands on the planet. 

Skaleet, a fintech company offering a new generation of Core Banking, today announced it has joined the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN), an organization that promotes and provides a common framework to shape the future of banking technology. 

Skaleet will share its expertise in next-generation Core Banking with BIAN members and partners to develop a shared vision for creating common standards, modern technology, and driving Core Banking excellence. 

Tink, Europe’s leading open banking platform, reveals research finding that an estimated 40% of people in the UK would like their bank to offer tools to track their environmental impact.

Based on a survey of over 2,000 UK consumers and 113 senior retail banking executives, the research highlights the opportunity for banks to play a bigger role in helping customers on their sustainability journey.