Zuora, Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading subscription management platform provider, today announced an expanded global partnership and new product integration with GoCardless, the leading fintech for recurring payments, to help companies across more than 30 countries, including the U.S., U.K., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada to process recurring payments faster and reduce payment-related costs and customer ch

JCB and Viva Wallet announce the extension of their partnership will enable contact and contactless payment between Viva Wallet’s European merchants and JCB’s 140 million cardmembers in both face-to-face and online commerce transactions.

Planixs, the provider of real-time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management software Realiti®, and Infor, the enterprise company that provides cloud software products to over 68,000 organisations worldwide, are working together on a series of virtual events to promote the benefits of real-time intraday liquidity management to treasury departments.

The Global Supply Chain Finance Forum (GSCFF) – comprising BAFT (Bankers’ Association for Finance and Trade), FCI, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the International Trade & Forfaiting Association (ITFA) and the Euro Banking Association (EBA) – today released a paper in response to growing concerns regarding the use of supply chain finance (SCF) and, in particular, payables finance programmes.

Xero today announces the acquisition of Waddle, a cloud based lending platform that helps small businesses access capital through invoice financing.

The acquisition aligns with Xero’s strategy to grow the small business platform and to address critical small business financial needs. Waddle’s best in class cloud lending platform, combined with small businesses’ invoice data, will enable the delivery of tailored invoice financing solutions.

Horizon Software (Horizon), provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology for capital markets players all over the world, today announced that it has been shortlisted by the FOW and Global Investor Asia Capital Market Awards in the ‘Multi-Asset Trading System of the Year’ category.

The Asia Capital Market Awards is the largest financial services awards ceremony that recognises excellent performance by firms and individuals in the Asian capital markets.

Leading the next wave of banking in South Korea, Standard Chartered Bank Korea expands its partnership with PayKey, an Israeli Fintech powering frictionless mobile banking experiences, to launch a new keyboard based solution that brings embedded banking to the customers of its award-winning SC Mobile Banking app.

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Backbase today announces that Mauritius Commercial Bank (MCB) has gone live with a brand new mobile app for SMEs built from the ground up on the Backbase Digital-first Banking Platform. This milestone marks the completion of the first phase of MCB and Backbase collaboration. Together with Backbase, the bank is accelerating the path towards digital transformation in order to enhance the customer experience by providing its clients with tailored services that they can access with ease, wherever they are.

Global financial services provider iBanFirst, delivering solutions across banking borders, announces the appointment of Yann Stadnicki as Chief Data Officer (CDO). He will be responsible for managing iBanFirst’s Business Intelligence, Business Analytics and Data Engineering teams, which will leverage data, artificial intelligence and machine learning across all company workstreams responsible for its client portfolio – such as sales, finance, and research and development (R&D).