SberDevices has presented SberBox Time, a smart media speaker, in the framework of Engineering Joy: Creating Smart Devices with Sber’s Virtual Assistants movie premier. Created with the latest product design trends in mind, the all-new device combines the functionality of three gadgets at once – a smart speaker, a set-top box, and a music alarm clock. As is the case with all Sber devices, SberBox Time has the Salute family of virtual assistants on board.

Antler, a global early-stage VC, has launched an initiative that aims to bring thousands of exceptional founders into the emerging world of Web3 and gain access to specialized Web3 resources

Antler, a global early-stage venture capital investor, with 350 portfolio companies across 17 cities across the world, has officially put out a call to founders and teams interested in building in Web3 to join its global cohorts. 

 Klarna, the leading global retail bank, payments and shopping service, has today announced a partnership with luxury retailer Harrods, offering customers more flexible and convenient payment options throughout Harrods Knightsbridge, H beauty and Harrods.com. 

StrikeX, the London-based blockchain technology company, has hired Rob Clark as Interim Chief Technology Officer. Rob will work on the entire range of StrikeX products, including delivery of its flagship product, TradeStrike, scheduled for 2022.

Rob brings 25 years of experience in the global IT market to the StrikeX team. He began his career as an engineer at ServiceTec, helping to support and deploy mission critical mainframe, Unix and Wintel platforms for various enterprise, defence, and public sector organisations.

  The investment aimed at expanding the manufacturing capacity at the Vitero Tiles unit at Peddapuram, Andhra Pradesh

-          The investment has doubled the production capacity for Vitero Tiles to 30,000 sq ft. per day

Alif to issue debit and premium Visa cards for Tajikistani residents

Alif Bank has accomplished the first stage of its partnership with Visa with the issuing of debit and premium Visa cards for Tajikistani residents. Tajikistani fintech will be using the Visa payment network to roll out its suite of financial products and services over the coming years.

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, has announced that Sebastian Tiesler has joined the firm as Country Manager for Germany. A highly experienced product and commercial manager, Hamburg-based Sebastian will define and manage commercial strategy in Germany, alongside TrueLayer’s Chief Revenue Officer Max Emilson. 

In a move upending the hottest part of the fintech market, two of the world’s leading issuer processors – Paymentology and Tutuka – are merging to create a new payments and card processing powerhouse.

Operating under the Paymentology name, the merger creates a new force in payment solutions; giving banks and fintechs the technology, team and experience to issue and process Mastercard, Visa and UnionPay cards, across 49 countries.

Quantile Group Ltd (Quantile), a leading provider of portfolio optimisation services for the global financial markets, today announces that it is to be acquired by London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG). The acquisition will enable Quantile to continue to deliver its market leading services and will accelerate product development, the launch of new services and expand its network to better serve its clients.

The partnership will improve London Mutual’s services by creating a frictionless journey for customers, providing the option to make payments directly from their accounts.