iDenfy, the end-to-end identity verification, compliance, and fraud prevention startup, announced a new partnership with AMLYZE, the SaaS Anti-Financial Crime solutions provider, helping small and medium-sized businesses combat financial crime. The referral Agreement signed by AMLYZE and iDenfy will enable mutual growth. 

Ding, the largest international mobile top-up platform, today announced an agreement with Western Union that allows Western Union’s Canadian customers to send international top-up payments to the mobile phones of more than five billion prepaid customers around the world.

Ecospend, the UK’s leading Open Banking payment provider, today announces that more than £2.3 billion in Self Assessment payments were made to HMRC using Ecospend’s ‘Pay-by-Bank’ technology ahead of 2023’s Self Assessment deadline – 64% more than last year. The total volume of transactions was 47% higher than in 2022, with 869,000 payments having been made to HMRC using the technology.

Clarency takes a further significant step in integrating its KYC-first payments and liquidity platform into core banking with its announcement today of selecting Form3, the cloud-native account-to-account platform, to provide it with direct access to the Swift network. The move extends its support for international payments and enables further customer growth. Clarency is the first customer on Form3’s Swift-as-a-service solution.

Stubben Edge (Risk) Limited (SERL), wholly owned subsidiary of UK-based FinTech Stubben Edge Group has announced that it has launched three new partnerships with the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), British Pest Control Association (BPCA) and the Association of Specialist Fire Protection (ASFP).

Global Processing Services (“GPS”), a fast-growing next-gen global payments technology platform, today announced the appointment of Paulette Rowe, Shane Happach, and Lynn McCreary as independent Non-Executive Directors. 

ThetaRay, a leading provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, today announced that Tudi, enabling a digital financial community through its mobile app, has chosen ThetaRay’s cloud-based AML solution to monitor its transactions in Mexico for financial crime. 

Metaco announces today its cooperation with DZ BANK AG, the central institution to the Volksbanken Raiffeisenbanken cooperative financial network, one of the largest banking groups in Germany.

In 2022, the countries of South & Southeast Asia saw a YoY decline of 83% in new fintechs, with only 349 startups emerging in the region. However, the volume of investments has not decreased so dramatically, with investors choosing less risky strategies, as revealed by the analytical centre of Robocash Group.

Temenos has been awarded AnchorGold Class distinction in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook for 2023 with the highest score (80/100) for the Software industry.