To further its goal to support more women in the tech industry, award-winning data and analytics company, TrueCue, launched its ‘Women + Data Hackathon’ for the second year running in November 2021.

Fintech behind record-breaking Series A raise makes key hire in Latin America growth push

Volt, the leading open payments gateway, has hired Nathan Marion as General Manager LATAM, to lead its strategic expansion in Latin America (LATAM). This follows the fintech’s innovative integration of Brazil’s instant payments system, Pix.

 Connect Financial, an innovative cryptocurrency financial platform, announces today the successful completion of their L2 Arbitrum migration and launches its full capabilities on the Connect Financial ecosystem.

How Will SCA Change Fraud Pressure for Businesses?

​​Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is a requirement of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) in the UK and the EU. Aimed at securing online payments, consumers’ identities are verified with a two-factor authentication. This authentication will ask consumers to prove two of three factors:

●      Knowledge — something they know, like a password

●      Possession — something they own, such as a mobile phone

Open Banking Expo, the leading global community of Open Banking and Open Finance executives responsible for digital transformation across financial services, will host thought leaders and practitioners for the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) Confex on 10 March 2022.

‘Does compliance really kill innovation?’ asks Amir Tabakovic, Co-Chair of Mobey Forum’s AI and Data Privacy Expert Group

Those who closely follow the digital trends impacting financial services will surely remember that, not so long ago, cloud technology and artificial intelligence (AI) were widely touted as the technologies that would protect banks against the rising tide of fintech, big techs, and the evolving expectations of customers.

Global information and insights provider TransUnion has announced it is ready to accept buy now, pay later finance into UK consumer credit files, being the first credit reference agency in the UK to do so.  

Following extensive research and product innovation, buy now, pay later finance – also known as deferred payment credit – will soon be included within TransUnion credit information to help protect consumers and enable finance providers to ensure that payment plans are affordable and sustainable.  

Results for the past half year were strong, and the indicators of sustainable profitable growth remain intact. The company achieved new milestones in the past year including half a trillion Euros of processed volume and a billion Euros of net revenues.

Modulr and Hodge have today announced a new partnership which sees the FinTech provide the Cardiff-based bank with the underlying payments and accounts infrastructure to deliver a market leading, real-time digital banking experience to its customers.