Award-winning fintech myPOS is announcing today that it has received authorisation as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) from the Central Bank of Ireland, the country's financial services regulator.

myPOS, which provides point-of-sale payment acquiring and payment solutions to more than 150,000 small and medium-sized merchants in more than 30 European countries, plans to grow its Dublin-based team to around 30 by the middle of next year.

Virgin Money has announced the appointment of Sarah Wilkinson as Chief Operating Officer. Sarah will join Virgin Money from Thomson Reuters, where she is the Chief Information Officer and Head of TR Labs, Thomson Reuters’ technology research and innovation centres worldwide.

AstroPay, the online payment solution of choice for millions of users worldwide, has partnered with Huobi Global, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset trading platforms, to provide fiat to crypto payment services for Huobi users in Latin America.

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Chris Codo has been appointed Senior Relationship Manager at United Fintech, the fintech one-stop-shop for banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

Chris Codo spent the last seven years as Senior Director, CME Group, with a focus on selling to hedge funds. His previous roles include Sales Director at FXall, Sales Director at Barclays Capital, Vice President at Lehman Brothers, and Vice President at Bloomberg LP. 

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Today, Mollie, one of the fastest growing financial services providers in Europe, announced it has been selected by Vonage, a global cloud communications leader, as a strategic payment provider for Vonage’s Jumper.ai product across Europe. 

One of the fastest-growing fintech players in the country, PayMe, has come up with a renewed brand outlook to bolster its primary commitment to bringing financial happiness to the masses. In the pursuit to become the preferred choice of financial services in the country, PayMe has renamed its brand name “PayMe India” to just “PayMe” – the name that made the brand create recognition in the market. The company will also be using the new brand name ‘PayMe’ for its further communications and other official purposes.

Web3 Investco AG, a private equity firm based in the Crypto Valley of Zug, Switzerland, focused on investments in targeted segments of the blockchain technology, payment services and software industries, today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to buy 100 per cent of the voting shares of Blocktrade SA, a company limited by shares with its registered office in Luxembourg.