Mastercard Installments BNPL program to come to market in the U.S., Australia and the UK; Enables consumers to access this increasingly popular form of payment across its vast global acceptance network

Ascendant, a leading provider of cross-border payment solutions, is pleased to announce it is one of the companies featured on the 2021 Report on Business ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies.

Ollie Cadman joins as Chief Product Officer; David Griffiths and Martin Appiah as Director of Regulatory Affairs

Electronic trading, once the preserve of specialist firms, is now available to the individual, retail investors on their cell phones. This more recent development is a testament to the progress that has been made within the industry over the last decade and how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), have become one of the biggest drivers of change in the trading and market infrastructure sector.

66% of those surveyed have visited a bank within the last year, rising to 78% among 18-34-year-olds

The Toluna Financial Services Sentiment Indicator (FSSI) is a bi-annual study exploring key issues related to the UK population’s personal and household finances, attitudes towards financial institutions in the UK, and behaviors in relation to personal finances. The latest research surveyed a nationally representative sample of 1,081 members of the UK public.  

One of the UK’s leading property finance specialists has announced the successful completion of an ambitious £2.25 million bridging loan. The team at UK Property Finance worked with Hope Capital to arrange the bridging loan which needed to be arranged as quickly as possible to meet pressing deadlines.

VoxSmart Ltd., the global leader in communications surveillance, has announced the acquisition of GreenKey Technologies Inc., the industry-leading automated speech recognition (“ASR”) and natural language processing (“NLP”) provider, to further bolster its communications surveillance offering to global financial institutions.

Tesselate Africa, a subsidiary of Tesselate Group, and Finastra, the largest pure-play software vendor that serves the entire financial services industry, today announced their partnership.

Global Fintech firm, Gold-i has restructured its development team, creating two new senior development roles as part of its growth strategy, both reporting into Chris James, Gold-i’s CTO. 

Dr Syed Ashar Akhtar has been promoted to Head of Development, with responsibility for the development of all products in the Gold-i portfolio.  Mo Alshanteer has been appointed Product Delivery Manager, responsible for managing the entire cycle of Gold-i products.

• P20’s Financial Inclusion Working Group will be supported by EY participants, who will join P20’s Global Payments Conference in September and other P20 events
• Members of P20 include J.P. Morgan, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, FIS and others