CLOWD9, the world’s first cloud-native, cloud-certified, decentralized, payments processing platform, has launched today, revolutionizing the technology that sits behind global payments transactions.

Stripe has appointed Microsoft and Meta veteran Vivek Sharma as its first head of revenue and financial management.

In the new role, Sharma will oversee an increasingly important part of Stripe's business as it continues to expand beyond payments and become a financial one-stop shop for internet businesses.

Among the products under his command will be Stripe Billing, Stripe Invoicing, Stripe Tax and Revenue Recognition.

Madhav Kalyan has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific payments for JP Morgan as part of a reshuffle of the bank's senior management in the region.

Based in Mumbai, he succeeds Sridhar Kanthadai who will remain with the firm as the newly appointed co-head of global payment rails and payment VAS.

Nutanix has announced the general availability of Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on Microsoft Azure, extending its hybrid cloud environment to Microsoft Azure dedicated bare metal nodes. 

ZEDRA, an international provider of corporate and global expansion, active wealth, Pensions & Incentives and Fund solutions, today announces its partnership with Clausematch, a technology company developing solutions for regulatory compliance. The company is adopting Clausematch's policy management platform to streamline compliance across multiple jurisdictions.

How do consumers want to access secure services online? With face verification. That’s the key finding from a recent report by iProov, the world leader in biometric verification and authentication technology, which surveyed 16,000 people in eight countries to assess their attitudes to online security and digital identity.

After years of growth and recent investment, Backbase refreshes its brand to reach evolving banking industry.

Barclays Bank UK PLC is today announcing two new non-executive appointments to further bolster its Board. Bernadette Wightman joined as an independent non-executive director in September while John Liver commences his role today, 17 October 2022.

Beams Fintech Fund, India’s first Growth Stage Fintech Fund, has invested in the Series C round of Progcap, India's leading supply chain finance company. Beams has invested alongside Google, Creations, Tiger and Sequoia in this round. Other investors in this company include GrowX, CIBIL chairman MV Nair, Freecharge co-founder Sandeep Tandon. 9Unicorns & ZNL Growth Fund also participated in the round along with Beams.

Plum Raises £1m from Investors in Only 8 Hours of Crowdfunding