Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, today announced it is now processing more than one million daily identity verifications, the vast majority of which are completely automated. By consistently setting new records, Jumio has already cleared over 100 million different transactions so far in 2021 alone, with YTD revenue growing more than 118% year-over-year.

Global financial infrastructure provider, Banking Circle, has joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a front-runner bank in creating bulk-clearing for the Danish Krone, underlining its commitment to building a global payments infrastructure. P27 has been acknowledged as a vital initiative to address the disparate clearing systems currently operating across the Nordic region. Banking Circle sees its membership of P27 as a crucial piece in the jigsaw to remove the cost and time currently experienced in domestic and cross border payments to and from the region.

Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, today announced it is partnering with Swissquote, a leading provider of online financial services, to offer a new app-based card program that gives users control over a range of financial activities, including banking and investing, in a single digital space. 

Often, investors make what I call a geographical fallacy: saying that they invest in a region, when, in reality, they mainly invest in just one or two countries in that region. I’ve certainly been guilty of this, describing Mouro Capital as investing in ‘Europe, North America and Latin America’, despite only investing in companies headquartered in the UK, Germany and Spain in Europe so far, and only Brazil and Mexico in Latin America. 

Consult Red, the technology R&D firm, has today announced it is becoming an employee-owned company. Consult Red works with the likes of Liberty Global, Comcast and AT&T to develop cutting-edge in-home entertainment technology and other connected secure IoT products.

According to RBI --- Cash in Circulation at a Decadal High even when Digital Payments have soared. 

Google Cloud and PayPal today announced they are deepening their relationship to further accelerate PayPal’s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this expanded relationship, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal’s growth, helping the company process transactional data at a massive scale.

Today Cytora announces that Karen Green has joined the company’s advisory board, where she will play a key role in driving Cytora’s growth as part of its mission to digitise commercial insurance risk.

Stephen Kelso, Head of Markets at ITI Capital comments: