Zimpler, a leading fintech company born in Sweden, has– with immediate effect–appointed Katarina Bonde as their new chair of the board, and Nicolas Köllerstedt as Chief Growth Officer. Bonde will replace Peo Nilsson, who will remain on as a board member.

Business insurance is a necessity for any business, whether that undertaking is a spaza shop or a multi-national corporation. Sadly, many smaller businesses only realise the importance of business insurance when it’s too late.

CellPoint Digital, the global leader in payment orchestration, today announces it has teamed up with

Corserv, a company that empowers banks and fintechs with innovative payment card issuing solutions, announced that it has been certified as Visa Ready as an issuer processor for its modern issuer processor technology platform: Payment Cards as a Service APIs (PCaaSA).

ReceiptHero today announces a major new partnership with Ingenico, a Worldline brand,  allowing acquirers and other payment service providers to enable ReceiptHero’s digital receipt solution across their merchant networks using Ingenico’s new cloud-based solution, Payments  Platform as a Service (PPaaS). PPaaS enables a ‘one-to-many’ integration of payment solutions for thousands of acquirers, helping ReceiptHero to scale its operations rapidly across  Europe. 

Thunes, a global cross-border payments company, today announced a partnership with Alipay+, a suite of cross-border payments and marketing solutions operated by Ant Group. Thanks to this collaboration, Thunes’ customers and merchants in Europe will now be able to accept Asia’s most popular mobile wallets:

Oxbury Bank – the UK’s first and only AgTech bank – has secured £25m in Tier 2 capital funding, with the investment made by British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank.
 

Europe’s leading open banking platform, Tink, has today announced the launch of its new product Expense Check, designed to simplify and streamline the customer affordability verification process for lenders.

Justhome, the next-generation home financing startup, has raised €3.3 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Target Global.
 
APX, the Berlin-based early-stage fund backed by Europe’s leading digital publishers Axel Springer and Porsche also participated in the round, alongside a number of industry-leading angel investors.
 

Ebury, one of Europe’s largest fintechs and global provider of transaction payment solutions, is increasing its presence in the alternative investment sector to meet the growing demand for better, more focused services as an alternative to traditional banking providers.

Ebury has invested significantly in its proposition, hiring new specialists in the alternative banking investment sector and creating a dedicated international footprint with colleagues across 10 countries.