Ozan Electronic Money Turkey has successfully completed its Visa principal membership process. Ozan Electronic Money Turkey was established to bring individual users together with SMEs on financial services. The recent Visa principal membership is an important step towards this goal and means that Ozan Visa Card users will be able to spend safely anywhere in the world.

"1.7 billion people in the world are still completely unbanked - and billions more are underbanked."

DatacentreSpeak, a leader in business development consulting for the digital infrastructure sector, has today announced the launch of new a service offering to aid medium-sized companies to identify and prioritize digitalization opportunities and develop an effective strategy for program delivery. DatacentreSpeak combines in-depth knowledge of the data center sector with global reach to stimulate business growth.

Funding Societies, Southeast Asia’s largest SME digital financing platform, is now live in Thailand. On Feb 2nd, 2021, it was awarded the SEC debt crowdfunding license, enabling it to support Thai SMEs and startups in raising funds from retail and institutional investors.

Wealthify, the multi-award-winning digital investment platform, today announces the appointment of David Semmens as Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Head of Investment Strategy since 2018, Semmens has been acting as Interim CIO since June 2020.

SG NewTech, a Kenya-based tech services company and subsidiary of Software Group, has won an award for ‘Best in MEA’ at Finastra’s Global Hackathon “Hack the Future” for its latest project, Banking4U, designed to provide quick and easy access to bank loans. 

Leading mortgage technology provider, Twenty7Tec, today announces that all users of the company’s CloudTwenty7 platform will now have access to the APPLY integration with Aldermore, for the submission of mortgage applications.

This move follows a successful pilot of the integration, so advisers at both Mortgage Advice Bureau and Connells were able to submit applications to Aldermore from within APPLY.

Link Fund Solutions, part of Link Group (ASX: LNK), a leading global provider of financial administration services, and Confluence Technologies, Inc. (“Confluence”) have partnered to launch a portfolio compliance solution across 283 funds in the UK and Europe.

Previse, the AI fintech that gets suppliers paid instantly, has made two new hires to its London team.

Niv Subramaniam joins Previse as Commercial Lead and Steve Dempsey as Sales Director.

Previse is growing its team in response to increased demand for its InstantPay technology, which has been spurred on by the need for SMEs to receive faster payments to be able to survive the Covid-19 storm. 

To help businesses meet customer needs and provide greater support for the financially vulnerable, PayPoint is stepping up the benefits for its digital solution, PayByLink. 

The Bitcoin price nears $50,000 and will continue to reach new highs in this first quarter of 2021 – but investors should also expect volatility due to increasing regulatory scrutiny.

This is the warning from Nigel Green, CEO and founder of deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organizations. 

It comes after the cryptocurrency hit more than $49,700 for the first time in history on Sunday.