Leading fintech enablement partner, Ukheshe Technologies has confirmed the establishment of a new joint venture with ForexPeople, one of South Africa’s most trusted names in forex with over 20 years’ experience, to seamlessly facilitate cross border payments from South Africa into Africa.

The insurance sector is not yet at the point where customer experience (CX) has overtaken price or product as the brand differentiator, but it is getting closer. In fact, we may look back at this year as the tipping point when it does.

Smart Engines, an OCR solutions developer, has announced an expansion of Smart Document Engine SDK by adding payment slips as a new document type for its automatic scanning. The integrated solution will help entities reduce the reliance on manual data entry and make payment procedures in several European countries more efficient. The software instantly detects the payment slip while scanning in a video stream and in photos. 

While the pandemic has slowed down the development of neobanks in 2020, it has created strong potential for the segment. Analysts of UnaFinancial revealed that in 2021 the neobanking market will grow by 24% in APAC, and by 50% - in Southeast Asia.

Taulia, the leading fintech provider of working capital solutions, has today announced the appointment of Ali Ansari as Director for Global Supply Chain and Payables Solutions. 

Ansari will be responsible for managing and expanding Taulia’s world-class supply chain and payables solutions globally, with immediate effect. In this newly created role, Ansari will be based in London and report to Kathleen Nugent, Global Head of Product. 

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Tribe Payments, a payment technology provider, today announced it has agreed a partnership with ClearBank to provide Tribe’s fintech customers with access to payment schemes using ClearBank’s award-winning agency banking and banking-as-service product sets.

Etrading Software (ETS), global provider of technology-led solutions, acting as exclusive Registration Authority for the new International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) standard for Digital Token Identifiers (DTIs), announced the DTI Registry which will assign ISO’s DTI Identifiers to digital tokens globally, goes live today.