Dyce Energy, a gas and electric provider for UK businesses, has announced today that it will be renewing its relationship with GoCardless, the bank payment company, for another three years. The new contract will see Dyce Energy continue a six-year relationship with GoCardless to collect recurring payments through Direct Debit.

Ebury, one of the world's largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, today announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil.

Numeral, the payment technology provider, today announces the support of Swift payments, enabling companies and financial institutions to automate cross-border payments with their partner banks to more than 200 countries, in addition to local European SEPA as well as UK Bacs, FPS, and CHAPS payments, from a single platform.

Finastra has today announced UNITAS as a strategic partner for Finastra’s Kondor treasury solution in South Korea. The combination of Finastra’s best-of-breed trading system with UNITAS’s local expertise and deep experience in providing risk and compliance solutions to financial institutions will enable more banks in the country to digitally transform and grow their business.

CLARA Analytics, which offers a claims intelligence platform, has received an investment from Nationwide Ventures, the investment arm of Nationwide. CLARA has raised a total of $64 million, including its recently announced Series C.

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments provider and shopping assistant, has revealed UK consumers paid off 97.4% of Black Friday orders on time or early, an increase of 2% compared with last year. The data comes as Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey declared yesterday that the UK’s recession may already be over. Klarna’s Buy Now Pay Later products are always interest-free and, if paid on time, incur no fee.

Green Dot Corporation, a leading digital bank and fintech providing seamless banking and payment services to consumers and businesses, announced a new partnership with Dayforce, Inc.. Through this partnership, Green Dot will serve as the U.S.