Pagos, a payments intelligence startup founded by Braintree and PayPal vets, has raised $34 million in a Series A round led by Arbor Ventures.

Point 72 Ventures, Infinity Ventures and Underscore VC joined the round, the proceeds of which will be used to expand the Pagos engineering team and further develop the platform’s enterprise product suite.

Growth across a myriad of sectors continues to be adversely affected by a broader downturn in the global economy but the field of embedded finance continues to go from strength-to-strength, as highlighted by Plug-and-Play Finance company, Weavr.  

Clausematch, a technology company developing solutions for regulatory compliance, is pleased to announce it has signed an agreement with The Connector, a technology commercial firm with an unconventional approach to assisting companies looking to scale-up their client base, as well as financial services companie

Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital lending marketplaces, is renewing its partnership with independent, award-winning think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) until 2025. 

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UK-based FinTech Stubben Edge Group (the Company) and National Friendly (the trading name of Mutual, National Deposit Friendly Society Ltd) have announced a new partnership to harness the Company’s technology and distribution expertise to National Friendly’s people-focused bespoke insurance products.

European fintech, Citizen, has today announced it has chosen embedded finance infrastructure provider, OpenPayd, as its real-time payments provider. The partnership will give the end-users of Citizen’s clients a simplified payments experience via OpenPayd’s BaaS platform, which offers plug-and-play banking and payments infrastructure through a single API.

The cost-of-living crisis is changing how consumers purchase and use gift cards, with almost half (47%) of British consumers taking advantage of gift card promotions such as bonus card value or discounts to combat inflation, according to The UK Prepaid Consumer Insights Survey released today by Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial technology solutions.

Tazapay, a Singapore-based cross-border payments provider, has partnered with leading global real-time payments gateway Volt to add open banking to its growing stack of payment offerings, as it accelerates its international growth plans across the UK and Europe.