● Ebury prepares for second phase of commercial expansion in Latin America, a key  area of strategic growth following the Banco Santander investment in 2019 

● Ebury has seen huge demand for its services in Latin America which simplify trade  and international payments for SMEs in the uniquely complex market  

● The global fintech now plans to expand its product range and further develop its  platform for the Latin America market  

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and #4 player worldwide, and Spreedly, the provider of the leading Payment Orchestration platform, announced today that Worldline has joined the Spreedly Payment Service Provider Program.

ARIE Finance (licenced as ARIE Capital Payment Solutions, and part of the ARIE Capital Group) is pleased to announce that it has been granted authorisation to operate as a Small Payment Institution by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.  ARIE Finance is the world’s first digital financial services platform designed exclusively for complex mid-market corporates. 

The one-click, passwordless mobile identity solutions provider IPification has just deployed its phone verification solution within U-Pay, the leading mobile payments services provider in Cambodia. U-Pay is the first e-Wallet company to implement bank-grade secure IPification solutions in the country.  

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. today announced the live availability of a new Spanish issuer “golden copy” event notification and vote execution service for the Spanish market.  The service, delivered in collaboration with Santander Investment S.A., the leader in Shareholder General Meeting services in Spain, provides a fully automated solution with market-wide coverage.

• 259 million securitised derivatives traded in Q4 2021 compared to 171 million in Q4 2020
• Most traded underlyings were DAX 40, NASDAQ 100 and OMX 30
• Q4 2021 was Spectrum’s highest ever in terms of trading volume

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securitized derivatives, has released its latest Quarterly Business Update, revealing continued positive momentum as its business matures.

The research by Robocash Group reveals that improvements in the employment rate and the final household consumption volume of the Filipino population will positively affect alternative lending in 2022.

• The value of payments made contactlessly increased 40.2 per cent compared to 2020
• The contactless limit increase to £100 in October 2021 increased the average number of transactions by 27.5 per cent year-on-year
• Thursday 23 December was the busiest day for contactless payments with the value of eligible transactions 121.4 per cent higher than the daily average in 2021
• Data compiled from billions of customer card transactions made in 2021

Softline (LSE: SFTL), the global IT and digital transformation provider, in line with its three-dimensional growth strategy, today announces the signing of an agreement to become the majority shareholder in SoftClub (SCGroup Investments Limited), a specialist in the rapidly-growing industry of financial technology, and the largest developer of integrated solutions for banks, e-commerce, and stock exchanges in Central and Eastern Europe.