FNZ, the leading end-to-end global wealth management platform, today announces that Adrian Durham, its founder, has decided to transition from his role as Group CEO to a non-executive role as Founding Director and Senior Advisor. Adrian will continue to sit on the Group Board and will remain a significant shareholder in the company.

Propel, a leading tech company for low-income Americans, celebrates its 10th anniversary with new initiatives funded by a $3.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This funding will support Propel's development of AI-powered tools to enhance safety net navigation.

10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has today announced a strategic partnership with SunTec Business Solutions, the world’s leading relationship-based pricing and billing provider, to enable banks to offer personalized and contextual products, services and offers to their customers, across Corporate, SME and Retail Banking.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today issued an order filing and settling charges against Nasdaq Futures, Inc., formerly a designated contract market (DCM). The order finds Nasdaq Futures, Inc. failed to properly establish, monitor, or enforce rules related to an incentive program Nasdaq Futures, Inc. offered to certain traders on its DCM. The order also finds Nasdaq Futures, Inc.

PayJunction, a leading tech-focused payments company, announced today it has added Text to Pay capabilities to its No-code Payments Integration®, Virtual Terminal, and API. The new feature enables businesses to seamlessly and securely implement Text to Pay into current invoicing workflows, enabling them to accept customer payments via SMS Message. This helps businesses better meet customer expectations while improving collection rates, contributing to overall revenue growth.

Leading fintech Pine Labs and Visa, the global leader in global payments have come together to scale digital payments acceptance and further India’s vision of a digital economy by unveiling Pine Labs Mini, a soundbox-enabled device for QR, Near Field Communication (NFC) and card payments.

The latest Lloyds Bank Business Barometer showed that business confidence remained at 50% in August. Although there was no increase to the overall confidence figure, the result highlighted the continued positivity amongst businesses, with confidence still at the highest level reported since November 2015. 

 Nium, the global leader in real-time cross-border payments, is expanding its operational hub in Vilnius through new hires and a new office facility that will better serve its growing customer base across Europe. This includes:

The application process for the Mastercard Lighthouse Türkiye, an innovative start-up acceleration program that aims to bring fintech startups to international standards, has started. The program enables start-ups to connect with business partners and investors through the Mastercard global network, while accelerating their scaling process through an intensive training program with Mastercard and industry experts.

Global fintech SumUp has reinforced its European operations with a series of strategic executive appointments based at its Dublin office. Niall Mac an tSionnaigh is now CEO of SumUp Limited, SumUp’s Irish operating company, and Alastair Nolan, who joined as SumUp Group’s CFO Europe, will serve as SumUp Limited’s Head of Finance.