JP Morgan has unveiled its Payments Partner Network, a B2B digital marketplace, powered by Salesforce, that allows the bank's merchants and corporate treasury clients to tap into an ecosystem of third-party integrations for their end-to-end payments and working capital needs.

Demox Labs, a pioneer in the creation of zero-knowledge technology, today announced it has raised a $4.5 million pre-seed funding round and debuted Leo Wallet, a first-of-its-kind privacy-focused cryptocurrency wallet for use with the Aleo blockchain. The funding round was led by HackVC with participation from DCVC, Amplify Partners, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, OpenSea, and CSquared.

Brits think white-collar criminals have an easy ride in the UK, with fraudsters not being brought to justice. In fact, 59 per cent believe that if they were to report an incident of white-collar crime to the police or a relevant body, nothing would be done about it.

With many East Asian countries including China making travel restrictions a thing of the past in 2023, global tourism is expected to spike, and Europe is expecting an influx of visitors.

Chinese travellers have historically been strong spenders when in  Europe, as well as across the rest of the world. European retailers have so far benefitted from this spending, however many still lack the critical tools to properly cater for it – a familiar payment system. 

Montonio, the Estonian fintech innovator, has received an extension to their existing Payment Institution License from the Bank of Lithuania, empowering the company to hold clients’ funds and provide additional payment services. This license extension paves the way for Montonio to innovate its platform further and bolster its offerings to merchants across Europe.

Wolters Kluwer CCH Tagetik, a leading global provider of information, software and services, and DFGE (Institute for Energy, Ecology and Economy GmbH), are collaborating to help DACH businesses drive the digital transformation of their ESG performance and reporting, in preparation for 2024 

Global Financial Markets Intelligence (GFMI) is pleased to announce the 5th Annual Machine Learning in Quantitative Finance Conference, scheduled to take place in New York from September 20 to September 22, 2023. The conference will bring together leading experts and professionals from the financial industry to explore the latest trends, strategies, and applications of machine learning in quantitative finance.

Teylor, Barclays, M&G Investments and other investors have closed one of the largest fundraisings in the European private debt market for alternative lenders and the fintech industry so far in 2023. The €275m in fresh capital will enable Teylor to continue its rapid growth and allow the company to meet the financing needs of SMEs with a variety of debt products via the Teylor credit platform.

Global cross-border payment infrastructure company Thunes and Rawbank, the leading bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today announced a partnership to facilitate cr