Mastercard and Handpoint, an in-person payments platform provider, have signed a partnership agreement to promote greater acceptance of card payments by thousands of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Italy, Slovakia and the UK.

For some time open source was seen as something that only the biggest companies could use and play with. But with the modern, increasingly fast business environment, the use cases for open source are in everything and the technology is increasingly being adopted by companies of all shapes and sizes. Businesses that have major ambitions for scale or want to be a market leader now view open source as vital and not merely as something that is “nice to have”.

ABAKA, the global leader in digital saving and retirement enterprise SaaS solutions, today announced the launch of a new suite of products which allow financial services firms of all sizes to ‘plug in and play’ a financial advice chatbot as a service solution. The new offering provides AI-powered chatbot ready-to-go solutions for financial advisors, wealth managers, retail banks or retirement providers.

Phos, the fintech behind the first-ever software-only Point of Sale (SoftPoS), and Stanchion Payment Solutions, a global specialist in payments systems and integration, have today announced a partnership to enable payment processors and banks to accelerate  the time to market of innovative contactless payments acceptance solutions f

FinecoBank today announces the expansion of its investment products with a suite of funds from Capital Group.

With the new funds from global asset management firm Capital Group, Fineco clients in the UK now have access to a wide variety of investment strategies and asset classes including Capital Group New Perspective Fund (LUX), a global equity offering launched over 45 years ago, and Capital Group Global High Income Opportunities (LUX), a fixed income fund with a track record spanning 21 years.

Pleo, the fintech empowering businesses with a smart spending and expense management solution, is delighted to announce that it has introduced Apple Pay for its 10,000+ European and UK customers. Allowing Pleo’s customers to instantly benefit from a simple and secure mobile payment method, Apple Pay makes it easier than ever for Pleo customers to make expensable purchases on the go.

Customers will also benefit from Apple Pay’s security and privacy features, including: 

Sysnet Global Solutions, the leading provider of cyber security and compliance solutions, is today launching a brand new update to its leading Proactive Data Security (PDS) solution. PDS 2.0 comes with a host of new features including a mobile application and additional security tools.

Nova Credit, the premier cross-border credit reporting agency, has teamed up with Salt Edge, leader in developing open banking solutions, to get instant access to the banking data of newcomers from the UK and EU. The new partnership improves the consumer’s access to products like credit cards and loans in the United States.

Copper, the London-based digital asset infrastructure provider, today announced the appointment of three new senior executives to lead the company’s international expansion. They take up their new roles with immediate effect.

Michelle Lai, Jonathan Tse and Doug Bilyk bring expertise from across the financial services landscape, from institutional asset management, traditional trading and private equity, through to cryptoasset trading and fintech.

GoCardless, a leading fintech for recurring payments, today announced the launch of GoCardless for Salesforce Billing on Salesforce AppExchange, the world’s leading enterprise cloud marketplace.