Allica Bank has reaffirmed its drive to help brokers and businesses access finance by extending its offer to provide qualifying commercial owner-occupied mortgages at a reduced interest margin of 3.5% into Q4.  

In light of overwhelming broker demand, the bank has also launched its commercial mortgage offering into Scotland. Allica believes the popularity of the promotion in England and Wales could be the perfect way to introduce its commercial mortgages north of the border.

Popular payment methods join other Indonesian market-leaders on PPRO’s platform including DOKU and OVO

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API integration with Adflex’s B2B digital payment platform strengthens merchants’ defences against fraud

B2B payments specialist Adflex today announces a partnership with Signifyd, the market leader in commerce protection, to enhance security checks and reduce fraud for its merchant customers via machine learning, AI, and velocity checks.

A BlueSnap survey of 100 senior business executives showed that 41% were experiencing international payment authorisation rates of less than 70%

The key study findings:

• 68 percent fail to take advantage of local acquiring – resulting in lower sales due to sub-par authorisation rates and increased costs due to high cross-border fees

• Almost half estimate that they’ve lost up to 10 percent of their revenue by not offering the right payment options

FICO research shows Gen Z group is least likely to open an account in-person

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 Yugabyte, the leader in open source distributed SQL databases has announced a new EMEA customer win, with global digital money transfer service leader 

More than a quarter of finance professionals currently lack expertise in data processes and analysis

Forty-two percent of financial professionals believe having analytical skills will be a key requirement to fulfil their roles in the future, according to findings from the latest FinTech Barometer survey of finance professionals, carried out by Visma | Onguard, the fintech company that focuses on the order-to-cash process. This is followed by programming skills (37%), reflecting the growing role technology is playing within finance roles, and leadership qualities (34%).

New debt funds are opting for Oxane’s digital-first capabilities to scale with agility

 (JCN Newswire) - JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., and Checkout.com, the global payments processing platform, today announces the next evolution of their partnership with the rollout of J/Secure(TM) 2.0 which is compliant with EMV(R) 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) to Checkout.com's merchants in the UK.