ConTe.it Prestiti, a new venture in the credit sector of Admiral Group Italy, has partnered with Tink, Europe’s leading open banking platform, to offer customers in ConTe.it Prestiti’s network an improved and instant lending application process.

ConTe.it Prestiti, a lending fintech platform, has embedded Tink’s Income Check product into its current offering, in order to make more accurate affordability assessments. 

Business credit decisioning tool Fuse by Pave offers lenders 97% accuracy in affordability tests, clearer insights into consumer affordability, reduced rate of defaulted loans, and improvements to borrower outcomes.

Acquired.com, a UK payments specialist and payment initiation service provider, and MultiPay Global Solutions, a leading provider of payments technology, have today announced a new partnership that sees Acquired.com select MultiPay as the official hardware provider for its in-person payment card terminals.

Xapo Bank, a leading Bitcoin custodian and licensed private bank, has collaborated with Circle, a global financial technology company helping money move at internet speed, to become the first licensed bank in the world to integrate USDC payment rails as an alternative to SWIFT. 

Axyon AI, a leading AI provider for the asset management industry, today announces the appointment of Mr. Massimo Tosato as Advisory Committee member.

Harnessing his extensive experience in the asset management and fintech industries, and as an entrepreneur himself, Mr. Tosato will join Axyon AI’s committee to support the Italian AI fintech with its growth and development.

Ondato, a technology company that streamlines AML and KYC processes, has begun marketing its highly accurate, AI-powered OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology as a stand-alone solution for other ID vendors. Ondato’s OCR automatically identifies and uses relevant personal information from identity documents during onboarding. 

Today, ConsenSys,  a market-leading Web3 company, revealed that MetaMask, the world’s leading self-custody wallet, and MoonPay, the leading web3 infrastructure company, have expanded their offering in Nigeria.

This is the seventh edition of FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies – a list of the fastest growing companies in Europe. iBanFirst, the reference for new generation international payments, ranks for the fourth consecutive year on the list, rising from 815^th to 378^th place.