Two fintechs integrated open banking into their platforms to streamline the payment process.

UK-based cryptocurrency firm Mercuryo partnered with payment gateway Volt to enable open banking payments for Mercuryo’s wallet.

• 19.6 million people in the UK have become disconnected from financial services products and are missing out on dormant or unclaimed money

• 44% of UK adults think they may have a lost or dormant account

• Third (31%) of those who may have lost assets haven’t tracked them down as they don’t know how to or where to start

Commenting on EU interest rates remaining the same and the ECB being in a tricky situation, Tom Hopkins, Portfolio Manager at BRI Wealth Management, said: “As expected, the ECB has decided not to raise interest rates. This was predicted by many forecasters, given the ongoing uncertainty of the Ukraine/Russia conflict but also the mirroring the dovish comments from Christine Lagarde last month. The ECB are in a tricky situation as the Eurozone is facing a deteriorating growth outlook due to the war in Ukraine, whilst also trying to tame rampant inflation.

Payments infrastructure provider Ramp has partnered with Kalao, a NFT marketplace powered by the Avalanche public blockchain, to enable users to rapidly purchase AVAX from a variety of fiat payment options.

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Global Intelligent Automation leader Laiye today announced its acquisition of Mindsay, a leading European enterprise chatbot and voicebot platform. The addition of conversational artificial intelligence advances Laiye’s goal of becoming the leading provider of next-generation Intelligent Automation software worldwide. Laiye also plans to set up a new R&D hub in Paris.

BingX is delighted to announce that it has teamed up with WOO Network, a safe haven network that helps exchanges resolve their liquidity issues by providing deep liquidity.

This partnership with Woo Network enables BingX users to freely access WOO Network's institutional liquidity solution, Wootrade. Wootrade has a rapidly growing list of assets with a peak daily trading volume of over $600 million.

Choice Hotels announced as first hotel chain to make corporate travel more flexible by allowing companies to pay on terms with consolidated billing

Quontic's wearable payment device will allow customers to tap-to-pay at any merchant worldwide that accepts contactless payments.

Quontic Bank announced today that it has introduced the first ever tap-to-pay mobile payment ring to the U.S. market. Quontic is an innovative, digital-first, and customer centric bank on a mission to redefine how a bank and its customers conduct business.