A new multi-country consortium of Europe’s most trusted identity experts has today announced its proposal to deliver a large-scale, cross-border payments pilot strongly aligned with the aims of the European Commission’s EU digital identity wallet program. Six countries (Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Latvia and Norway) are part of the consortium, led by NOBID (Nordic-Baltic eID Project).

Flutterwave, Africa's leading payments technology company, today announced that over 1,000,000 merchants can now accept eNaira payments from their customers on their platform. This follows the 3.0 product announcement event held in March this year, during which a range of upcoming product features was showcased. 

Micro-investing platform Wombat has appointed Jeremy Larsson as Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Partnerships as the business seeks to accelerate its growth plans
following the close of its Series A funding round in August.

Mollie, a payment industry pioneer and one of Europe’s fastest-growing financial service providers, today unveils the initial findings of its European Ecommerce Report. Mollie surveyed 3,000 online shoppers across Austria, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Jeton has partnered with Sumsub to create a better onboarding experience for its 1M+ users across 100 countries. Sumsub, a global tech company with 5 international offices, helps businesses easily verify users and steer clear of fraud while ensuring full compliance with shifting regulations.

DKK Partners, a leading fintech company, which specialises in emerging markets (EM) foreign exchange (FX) liquidity, has appointed Bovill, the financial services regulatory consultancy, as its global compliance partner.

The cyber threat landscape for businesses of all sizes is terrifying. According to the World Economic Forum, risks are increasing exponentially, while the rate of detection and prosecution is frighteningly low at a rate of below 1%. Organisations, especially small businesses, already suffer the greatest threat to their ongoing viability and require an automated solution if they are to stand any chance of overcoming this critical business risk.

A report conducted by payments technology provider Tribe Payments has revealed that a quarter (24%) of merchants are concerned with the ability of their acquirers to innovate in ways that will support their business growth plans. The report, which surveyed both online and multi-channel merchants across Germany, Lithuania, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK, also found that three in five merchants said they would switch acquirers if they were offered greater flexibility.

Axerve, Payment Partner to Grow, specialising in creating accessible and frictionless payment solutions for E-commerce and physical sales, today announces the release of a new white paper, ‘Payment Orchestration: unlocking cost-effective E-commerce for merchants in a multiple payment provider ecosystem’.

A unique event "WOW MetaVentures Bangkok" will be held on December 14-15 in Bangkok. The organizers are venture capital fund “MetaVentures” and WOW Summit.

The "WOW MetaVentures" brand is reorganized into a venture capital fund focused on digital projects related to Metaverse, NFT, Digital Art and other promising areas of the cryptocurrency industry.