The use of fintech apps has increased more than 61% since the pandemic started last year, reveals deVere Group, one of the world’s largest independent financial advisory and fintech organisations.
The jump comes as financial technology apps show further evidence that the way we manage our finances further shifted in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
James Green, deVere Group’s Divisional Manager of Europe, notes: “Pre-coronavirus, we were already in an exciting new era driven by the lightning pace of the digitalisation of our everyday lives.

GoCardless, a leading fintech for bank-to-bank payments, has today launched Instant Bank Pay, a new open banking feature directly integrated into its global payment platform. With Instant Bank Pay, merchants can take instant, one-off bank-to-bank payments from new and existing customers while still reaping the benefits of bank debit for their recurring payments.

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and number 4 worldwide, today announced it has partnered with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to give all their member airlines access to a wider range of payment solutions to better serve their passengers. All of Worldline’s payment capabilities and services will be made available through IATA Financial Gateway (IFG).

To enable it to keep up with its projected business growth, National Commercial Bank (NCB) in Vietnam has migrated its in-house processing centre to TranzAxis, an open development payments platform, from Compass Plus.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a globally leading provider of integrated payment products and India’s largest payments processor, and NPCI International Payments Ltd (NIPL, International arm of National Payment Corporation of India), have signed a strategic partnership to expand UPI (Unified Payment Interface) rails in international markets.

ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime detection, today announced a new early-stage anti-money laundering (AML) program aimed at growth-focused startups called ComplyLaunch™.

SEON, the fraud fighters, today announces the launch of its new office in Austin, Texas. The move marks the company’s expansion in the North American market, as it adds strategic new hires to better serve its customers and continues its mission to remove the barriers to fraud prevention around the globe.

Plenitude, the Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance specialists offering advisory, transformation services and innovative RegTech products, has appointed former HSBC UK Head of Financial Crime Compliance and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO), Allan Clare as Senior Advisor. Allan will help deliver Plenitude’s ambitious growth plans and business strategy to meet the challenges posed by the evolving financial crime landscape.

Mastercard today announced a US$10 million (approximately 75 crore rupees) commitment to directly address critical Covid-related needs in India. Over the past few weeks, the country has seen a spike in both Covid diagnoses and deaths, with the healthcare system being stretched to its limits as more than 350,000 new cases are identified each day.

The Philippines’ first neobank Tonik is ramping up the convenient banking features on its game-changing app through tying up with PESONet to enable safe and secure electronic fund transfers to Tonik account from other banks. The announcement comes on the heels of Tonik’s highly successful public launch in March 2021, which saw it secure over 1 billion pesos (US$20M) in retail deposits in under 1 month - a historical record for any new bank launching in the Philippines.