1. Today’s Payment Landscape

Making headlines with last year’s edition of UF AWARDS, Ultimate Fintech, the top-tier marketing agency and organiser of the industry-famed iFX EXPO, announces the launch of the UF AWARDS MEA 2023.

The UF AWARDS have been regarded as the standard of excellence and distinction for B2B and B2C brands that spearhead innovation and groundbreaking achievements in the online trading and fintech landscape. The UF AWARDS MEA 2023 carry this legacy forward by honouring excellence across the Middle East and Africa.

Melissa, a leading provider of global data quality, identity verification, and address management solutions, today announced the UK launch of Unison, its next-generation data quality platform. The Unison interface brings together Melissa’s rich set of data quality transformations, including data standardisation, validation, and enrichment, to deliver high-quality information throughout an organisation.

Pyypl – pronounced “People” – the Middle East and Africa (MEA) focused financial services platform and Hub71 company has closed its target Series B raise of $20 million from a diverse group of international investors and ten existing investors. Pyypl is considering opening a second tranche for further investment due to interest from investors.

One of the most well-known names in the BFSI industry NK Purohit, has joined SBI Securities as Chief Business Officer With N K Purohit at the helm of affairs, SBI Securities aims to achieve a leadership position in its chosen market segment, leveraging technology, lineage and reach of State Bank of India’s 22,000+ branches across India reaching 124 crore people.

deltaDAO, a data economy solutions company, today launches its Gaia-X Web3 Ecosystem network upgrade based on

Facctum™, a risktech company specialising in cloud-delivered enterprise risk decisioning technology, today announces the launch of FacctSet™, a new solution designed to streamline watchlist management for improved compliance outcomes. FacctSet is the first purpose-built product designed to address the growing data management challenges created by the rapid growth of sanctions and AML compliance obligations.

Payments modernisation is a hot topic right now—and for good reason. New and innovative digital payment technologies and instruments are emerging constantly, sharpening competition across the payments landscape.

The Swedish association PropTech Sweden, sponsoring Propel by MIPIM in New York between 9-11th November, has chosen Navian as one of the PropTech companies to watch out for in the Swedish PropTech ecosystem. Moreover, they have also selected Navian to represent Sweden in the event.  

Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital lending marketplaces and embedded finance providers, is adding nine credit cards offered by American Express to its panel.

American Express is one of the leading providers of credit cards in the UK and its inclusion in Freedom Finance’s marketplace further strengthens the platform’s growing card offering.