Mollie, one of the fastest-growing financial services providers in Europe, has revealed insights into online payment trends for small and medium-sized retailers on Black Friday and Cyber Week 2022. Sales performance was much stronger than expected, Buy Now, Pay Later and local payment methods are on the rise and average transaction values have increased.

Sales performance: Black Friday is now a week-long event

Industry players are on a mission to differentiate themselves, while merchants and consumers are demanding innovative ways to pay for what they buy.  A seamless payment experience is becoming more and more important to consumers and therefore merchants as e-commerce continues to be as competitive as ever.

Founded in 2017, Openly offers home insurance products in 19 states through a network of over 17,000 independent insurance agents.

SAN FRANCISCO -- AtoB, the first fintech payments platform to modernize the $790 billion trucking industry’s broken financial system, today announced it has raised $155 million in Series B funding.

NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2022 -- Pinwheel, today announced that it raised $50M in a Series B round led by GGV Capital, with continued participation from Coatue, First Round Capital, and Upfront Ventures, as well as new investments from strategic partners including AMEX Ventures, Indeed, Kraken Ventures, Franklin Templeton, and more.

In recent years, the UK banking industry has experienced a high level of IT failures and crashes.

TransUnion, a global information and insights provider and one of the UK’s leading credit reference agencies, celebrated two wins at the Credit and Collections Technology Awards 2022, for Innovation in Credit and best Anti-Fraud Solution.

The awards highlight the success of companies that lead the way in the credit industry, with a focus on how technology supports the sector in developing and enhancing best-in-class solutions.

Boost.ai, a Nordic Capital-backed global leader in conversational AI for enterprises, today announced that Jerry Haywood is joining the company’s executive team as Chief Executive Officer effective December 1, 2022. Haywood brings 20 years of enterprise technology experience with him and has held various sales and senior leadership positions at IBM, Cisco, and Salesforce.

BBVA, Toscafund, and Infinity Investment Partners have agreed to invest £30 million in equity to Atom Bank to power lending and growth.