Co-branded credit card provider Imprint has raised $75 million in Series B funding.

In an ever-changing digital environment, merchants and consumers are looking for more seamless, secure, and innovative checkout experiences. Now, the trusted technology that uses your face to unlock your phone or tablet can soon be used to help consumers speed through in-store checkout thanks to a strategic partnership between Mastercard and NEC Corporation.

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of British Business Bank plc, today publishes its Annual Report and Accounts for 2022/23.

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Tax professionals around the world are facing an increasingly complex tax environment.

This year saw Ulster Bank and KBC announcing their departure from Ireland, leaving the rest of the Irish banks flooded with new customers. In many cases, such a rapid spike in demand could have left operations teams at these banks drowning in unmanageable workloads. Instead, Irish banks showed off a great deal of flexibility within their operations which allowed them to fully reap the benefits of the situation – making the sudden influx a great problem to have.

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multi-cloud computing, today released the Nutanix State of Enterprise AI Report, a global research study providing insights into Enterprise decision-making around AI. The report provides a holistic view into how enterprises are approaching AI technology strategy and adoption, as well as how future plans will affect IT spending and budgeting.

Fnality – the FinTech bringing together the safety and institutional quality of central bank money with the innovative functionality and resilience of blockchain technology – today announced a £77.7m Series B funding round. This was led by Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas, with participation from DTCC, Euroclear, Nomura and WisdomTree.

Viva.com, a leading European cloud-based neobank, now enables French merchants to seamlessly and securely accept in-person contactless payments with Tap to Pay on iPhone and its viva.com |Terminal iOS app. Tap to Pay on iPhone accepts all forms of contactless payments, including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets, using only an iPhone and the viva.com | Terminal iOS app, with no additional hardware or payment terminal needed.

Moneyhub, the award-winning data and payments platform built on Open Banking and Open Finance principles, has been placed on an authoritative global list of the top 100 fintech startups compiled by CBInsights.

New data from OpenPayd, a leading global Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform, spotlights an imminent embedded banking boom. While only 7% of large European companies offer embedded banking services today, 48% have specific plans to launch them in the next three years. 89% of those organisations will partner with BaaS providers to bring embedded banking services to market.