Swan, the emerging European leader in embedded finance, today announces its strategic partnership with Lucca, the HR and finance software platform used by 1.3 million users across 112 countries. Swan’s Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) technology is already allowing Lucca to enhance its expense management offering, improving the user experience by driving out inefficiencies through embedded finance automation.

The Milan Fintech Summit is returning for its fourth edition, continuing its commitment to driving innovation in banking and financial services. This international event, organised and promoted by Fintech District and Business International, the knowledge division of Fiera Milano, is scheduled for October 10th and 11th, 2023, at the Allianz MiCo in Milan.

Payments infrastructure company Stitch today announced a $25 million Series A extension, led by Ribbit Capital, bringing the total raised to $52 million. Stitch will use the funding to continue building its end-to-end payments solutions – designed to meet complex and evolving payments needs for global enterprise clients – and expand its reach to serve more markets.  

The Merit Awards, an independent program recognizing global industries, assesses the nominees' impact on their respective markets when determining the winners. Regula excelled in Cybersecurity, one of the Technology Awards subcategories.   

Online fraud prevention experts, SEON, have announced the launch of its full suite of fraud prevention solutions to customers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace. The launch will give businesses greater than ever-access to the company’s innovative fraud prevention platform.  

International Data Corporation (IDC), a global leader in providing market intelligence and advisory services for the ICT community, is thrilled to unveil an extraordinary convergence of tech visionaries, disruptors, and leaders for its prestigious ecosystem-focused event series, IDC Alliance. With events taking place in the UAE on November 22-23 and in South Africa on October 27-28, IDC Alliance has been designed to revolutionize the way technology businesses collaborate, innovate, and transform their strategies. 

The Lending Standards Board (LSB), the primary self-regulatory body for the banking and lending industry, is pleased to announce its membership of the UK Regulators’ Network (UKRN). This partnership will further enhance collaboration among regulators from various sectors, promoting better outcomes for consumers, SMEs, and the economy.

ISO 20022 is an open global standard for financial information. It provides a more consistent, significantly richer, and highly structured data set that can be used for most financial business transactions. 

These messages will be vital to the payments industry and will play an important role in the overall modernisation of payment processes. Specifically, they provide a structured and data-rich common language that is readily exchanged among corporates and banking systems.

Pidgin, a secure real-time payments platform built for the future of payments, has partnered with Exchange Bank to offer instant payments to its account holders.

Kroll, the leading independent provider of global risk and financial advisory solutions, has released The State of Cyber Defense Report 2023: Detection and Response Maturity Model, which discovered that 91% of cybersecurity professionals believe that their cyber detection and response processes are “very mature” or “somewhat mature,” yet, in fact, only 4% have mat