DKK Partners, a leading fintech company, which specialises in emerging markets (EM) and foreign exchange (FX) liquidity, has opened a Ghana operation. The office, which will serve as a hub for the booming African market, will be led by entrepreneur Sam Nti, who joins as director, and will include an additional four full-time staff.

Temenos today announced that a leading US financial institution is extending its relationship with Temenos to include its international private banking business. The Temenos wealth management platform will support the bank’s strategic transition to a cloud-based core banking system and help drive growth in Europe and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) as it looks to transform its operations and drive efficiencies at scale while offering first-class services and products to its clients.

SEON is advising online businesses to batten down the hatches, as online crooks prepare to make one final fraudulent push before the holidays. Leveraging its own data and customer insights, the company believes more fraud attempts will be made during the week of 12th December than in any other week in 2022.

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TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, today announced its collaboration with innovative European crypto payment platform Swaps.app. Estonia-based Swaps.app is a crypto and fiat payment gateway providing a platform for businesses to offer cryptocurrency purchases and payments on their websites.

Leading UK food and catering supplier JJ Foodservice has partnered with Solaris and Ecospend to implement an open banking payment solution to enable its 100,000 customers to pay for orders direct from their business bank accounts instead of through card transactions.

Rapid Finance, a market leader in helping small businesses find sustainable and customized financing solutions through a fast and simple application process, announced the availability of its new standalone Software as a Service (SaaS) Regtech module, SMB Disclosure Service, to enable business lenders and financing companies to quickly and easily produce compliant disclosure statements at a state-by-state level.

Fintech Paylink Solutions has raised over £1,350 for tech charity Computer Aid and mental health charity Mind with its latest Christmas-themed fundraiser.

Mind offers advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. Computer Aid provides access and education to technology to create better learning environments across more than 100 countries.

Chargebacks911, the leading global dispute specialist powering chargeback remediation for large eCommerce businesses and financial institutions, recently announced the release of their 2023 Geek’s Guide to Chargebacks, a comprehensive merchant resource concerning chargebacks and how customer disputes can disrupt businesses this holiday season.

Facctum™, a risktech company specialising in cloud-delivered enterprise risk decisioning technology, announces today the launch of an open API for FacctView™, its sanctions and anti-money laundering (AML) screening platform. The open API will provide institutions of all sizes with access to high-performance compliance controls that can be integrated quickly into their anti-financial crime frameworks.