Verto, the B2B payments platform and currency exchange marketplace for SMEs, has partnered with ClearBank, the cloud-based clearing bank, to create seamless cross-border payments solutions for underserved UK and European businesses.

 Evida, the Swedish financial advisory company, is delighted to confirm their new collaboration with additiv to meet the growing demand for hybrid investment advisory services. 

 Klarna, a leading global retail bank today announces it has signed an agreement to acquire PriceRunner. PriceRunner will bring new features in the form of product reviews, rich product discovery and price comparisons to the Klarna app to enhance the shopping, payments and banking experience for consumers globally.

• Temenos Infinity’s ready-to-go digital banking platform will allow Hattha Bank to quickly launch SME banking and support Cambodia’s Covid-19 economic recovery
• Seamless digital onboarding will allow the bank to rapidly grow its customer base and provide vital funding and banking services to 100,000 SMEs within five years

JCB International Co., Ltd., an international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., has launched JCB Contactless payment service in the e-payment system of Long Win Bus Co. Ltd. ("LWB"), in partnership with Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited ("BOCHK"). The new service is applicable to the whole LWB fleet. The Contactless payment service is now ready on about 1,300 buses and 100 bus routes in total, including the e-payment systems installed earlier in September 2021 on the buses of The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. ("KMB").

If all the people familiar with Forex lived in the same city, it would have to be bigger than Kuala Lumpur. This conclusion was reached by the analysts of the global broker OctaFX. The broker recently researched the Forex market capacity in Malaysia. While many people have at least heard about Forex, as discovered by the research team, how many of them use this investment tool regularly? Let's take a closer look.

 CFPB Director Rohit Chopra released a statement today regarding the Report on Stablecoins issued by the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Statement of CFPB Director Rohit Chopra

The United States must do more to nurture a fast, safe, and competitive payments system. New technologies can help to advance this goal, which would yield enormous benefits for consumers, workers, and small businesses.

 TripleBlind, the private data sharing company that offers proprietary cryptographically-enforced data privacy solution, announced today that it has been named a Cool Vendor in October 2021 Gartner Cool Vendors™ in Privacy report. Gartner subscribers can read the full report here.