Asia's first decentralized NFT-Fi platform, SOLARR, announced today that prominent Hong Kong socialite, Yvette Yung, acclaimed philanthropist, Rowena Wan, and leading regulatory and compliance lawyer, Sherman Yan, have been appointed as advisors for the project.

• 48% of respondents are 'barely breaking even' when asked if their business is still profitable based on the increase of trade cost, with a further 20.2% stating that they're losing money.

The payments industry is constantly evolving. In an effort to stay ahead of payments trends and address potential challenges, the U.S. Payments Forum today announces its upcoming Summer Member Meeting.

InsureTech Connect Asia (ITC Asia) will be hosting the first 3-day in-person event since the pandemic from 7 – 9 June 2022 at Suntec Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Exploring the growth potential of the Asia Pacific Region, the conference will gather senior industry executives, investors, and start-ups to share and showcase how they have adapted in the face of the pandemic.

A modern, intelligent payments platform is worth pursuing any financial institution, regardless of size. Long term, this can provide significant cost savings, enhance the client experience, enable new product offerings with quicker go-to-market time, and provide an efficient foundation for all new payment workstreams going forward.

A new survey from Forbes Advisor has warned that the majority of Americans are not aware of the energy and environmental threats Bitcoin mining poses.

Nebulon, Inc., the pioneer of smartInfrastructure^TM, an infrastructure operations SaaS that transforms an on-premises server estate into a cloud operating platform, today announced that it has appointed Paul Brodie as its new vice president of global channel sales and promoted Martin Cooper to vice president of customer experience.

Yolt, Europe’s leading independent and data-driven open banking provider, announces today a collaboration with October, Europe’s leading SME lending platform.

Due to going live in France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany, this deal will see October using Yolt’s Account Information Services to utilise open banking data in its credit assessment process for SME lending.

IDnow group, a leading European provider of identity proofing and document signing, reports rising demand for the joint portfolio in the first quarter of 2022. The company has confirmed an increase in order intake by 95%.

Yobota has today announced its partnership with Tranch, a buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup platform on a mission to deliver more flexible payments to fast-growing businesses.

Founded in 2016, London-based core banking provider Yobota has built a fast, flexible, cloud-native core banking platform that allows clients to create and run cutting-edge financial products.