Visa today announced that Visa tap to pay will officially arrive on GO Transit, and has launched on the UP Express, making it easier to travel on transit by offering riders a contactless payment option with their Visa credit card or payment-enabled device (e.g. smartphone or smartwatch).

ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd (ANZ New Zealand) has selected financial technology leader FIS^® to modernize its core banking capabilities.

Maven 11 has launched a Permissioned Pool, together with Maple Finance. The initial pool size is $ 40 million in USD Coin (USDC) with an attractive risk-adjusted return to investors. Initial participants for the new pool are Flow Traders, Wintermute and Auros.

TeamApt has just completed a financing round and brought on board one of the world’s largest fintech specialists, QED Investors.

With almost $5 billion in assets under management, QED is a premier VC in the fintech space. They have invested in 27 unicorns over more than 180 portfolio companies across 14 countries. 

Open Banking Expo, the largest global community of Open Banking and Open Finance executives driving the biggest digital transformation in the financial services sector, is back with its flagship event in Europe, and this year it will be in person.

Open API card issuing and processing platform Marqeta is on the hunt for a CEO after founder Jason Gardner decided to make the move to executive chairman.

Gardner founded Marqeta in 2010, building it into a multi-billion dollar outfit disrupting the multi-trillion dollar card issuing market before taking the firm public last year.

A hunt is now underway for his replacement.

Motive Partners ("Motive"), a specialist private equity firm focused on growth equity and buyout investments in software and information services companies that serve the financial services industry ("financial technology"), has received the necessary regulatory approvals and completed the sale of Global Shares to J.P. Morgan. Motive invested in Global Shares in August 2018, acquiring a ~40% stake in the business.

Talking about starting a small business, you would need to get funding. From start-up costs to other expenditures, it is mandatory to have enough cash. However, not all people can fund their new venture directly. They require a dedicated loan that gets accepted ASAP, then starts the business. 

San Francisco-based blockchain payments company Ripple, which is embroiled in a high-profile battle with the U.S. securities regulator, is interested in potentially purchasing assets of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network, according to a company spokesperson.

Email is a crucial function of business communication, which many organisations strongly rely upon. But as the pandemic brought a new world of remote and hybrid working, it’s arguably more important than ever to keep both individuals and organisations connected – wherever they may be. A staggering 333.2 billion emails are sent and received daily – but in turn, it’s inevitable that typos can occur or the wrong attachments are sent to the wrong person.