SAN FRANCISCO Visa, the Official Payment Technology Partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, today shared new data revealing initial consumer spending patterns during the kickoff of the 2024 Paris Games.

Paris 2024 Spend by the Numbers

Tribe Payments, the pioneering digital payments and infrastructure orchestrator which specialises in issuer and acquirer processing, has been selected by embedded financial services platform, 

Flexys, a leading UK-based supplier of collections management technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Moneyhub, a data and payments fintech specialising in Open Banking, Open Finance, and Open Data solutions. This collaboration aims to revolutionise the collections industry by integrating Open Banking capabilities into Flexys's cloud-based software.

Responsible lender, Creditspring, provided borrowers with over £95 million in affordable credit during the first six months of 2024, up 82% from £52.4 million in H1 2023.

Despite inflation easing, demand for affordable, short-term credit options remains high. During H1 2024, Creditspring received over seven million applications from borrowers who are locked out of mainstream credit options. 

Brankas and Boost Capital have launched LoanLink, the first chat-based lending solution of its kind in Southeast Asia. LoanLink provides a user-friendly chat interface that facilitates seamless integration and instant loan applications.

finova Broker, formerly the eKeeper Group and part of finova, the UK’s largest cloud-based mortgage and savings provider, has announced its successful integration with Cashflows, the platform that makes it easier to accept payments digitally. This new feature allows mortgage brokers to seamlessly take payments for administration and processing fees directly within the finova Broker CRM or passed directly to the customer via an email link.

Iress today announces that Rathbones Group PLC (Rathbones) is now live on its Xplan advice software to support Rathbones' current financial planning business. Xplan will also be the financial planning platform of choice for Rathbones' upcoming integration with Investec Wealth & Investment, further enhancing the firm’s digital capabilities and enabling improved operational efficiency and client service.