Westpay AB held Thu sdagen October 14, 2021 Extraordinary General Meeting.

• The use of contactless payments is set to make up 47% of all UK payments between 2021-2022, and will be the most common type of transaction
• Contactless payments are up by nearly a third (30%) since the start of the pandemic, when chip & pin payments were still the most popular way to pay
• Between 2021 and 2022, cash payments will account for just over one tenth (11%) of all purchases
• Forecasts show almost three quarters (72%) of payments will be made by card within the next year

AllianceBlock and dua are teaming up to create a digital banking solution for dua’s community leveraging AllianceBlocks technology. 

There is hardly anyone left who is not familiar with the bitcoin bull market. A few but dramatic corrections made this historic run more exciting. Blockchain technology is here to stay. And the way legacy institutions and governments react will determine the future of finance. The global broker OctaFX prepared an expert article exploring whether peaceful co-existence might be an option.

The U.S. and bitcoin: teasing as a sign of affection

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global provider of integrated payment products and a payments processor has partnered with Equicom Savings Bank (EqB) - one of the leading banks in the Philippines to address online fraud and to boost e-commerce growth.

Automated management platform manages and optimises performance of RPA operations by 50%

The expanded program includes free AML checks for your Know your Customer (#KYC) process, access to resource knowledge base, service credits and world-class support 

• Charge volumes expected to grow more than 600% this year as Tradeshift’s unique network model drives virality across fintech products and services

Tradeshift, a market leader in e-invoicing and AP automation, today announced that its virtual credit card product Tradeshift Go is on track to process $2.5 billion in charge volume this year - a sixfold increase over 2020. With this explosive growth and more than 2,000 customers, Tradeshift Go ranks  as one of the largest fintech card programs in the world.

Hardbacon, a personal finance app used by more than 30,000 Canadians, today announced a partnership with ClicAssure, one of Canada's leading insurance comparison sites, to offer Quebecers a better way to buy auto and home insurance in Quebec.

ProjectPay wins grant to develop new embodied carbon emissions tracking tool on construction project payments platforms.

Global start-up Building and Construction industry payments platform ProjectPay has won an Innovate UK grant to develop a new embodied carbon emissions tracking tool on construction projects, to implement into their existing payments platform.