Uplinq Financial technologies (Uplinq) has raised USD $3.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by noted venture capital investors, N49P and Surface Ventures, alongside a veritable ‘who’s who’ list of leading individual Fintech investors. The business will use the investment to further its commitment to help banks and lenders deliver financial inclusion for their small business customers across the globe.

Trading volumes on popular meme stock Gamestop (GME) rose by 194% in the last two weeks on investment trading platform Capital.com, suggesting meme stocks continue to retain their appeal even after Reddit’s WallStreetBets hype last year. 

It’s been a year since every merchant across France, Germany, Italy and Spain — the EEA’s largest digital commerce markets — started complying with PSD2. Here at Forter, we analysed our data to determine what merchants are doing to comply with PSD2, asking, “has it reduced fraud rates?”

Origins of PSD2 and the use of 3DS

Fintech Week London 2022, the leading event for the fintech community, has re-appointed SkyParlour as its official PR and media relations partner.

Referral Arrangement to Facilitate Clients’ Real-Time B2B Settlement

Citibank N.A. Pakistan (“Citi”) announced today that it has entered into a referral arrangement with Haball Pvt Ltd (“Haball”) providing corporate clients a digital receivables solution which enables real-time reporting and reconciliation.

Boku's FY21 results reflect continued strong momentum in the Payments business and improved performance in the since-sold Identity business. Local payment methods added to the Boku network over the last three years showed an accelerating contribution to monthly active user numbers, increasing ninefold over 2021, and made up nearly 10% of new users in the year. We have revised our forecasts to remove revenue from Russian carriers and estimate an EPS CAGR of 13.7% over FY21-24e.

Global leader in cybersecurity is championing innovation and enabling progressive change by ensuring a safe digital future

We’re moving into an increasingly complex digital world – technology is how we connect, how we work and how we express ourselves. Communities are built and businesses grown through digital innovations, but these are open to attack, putting the future of technological innovation at risk.

Paysend, the UK-based fintech with over 6.5 million customers, today announces the launch of two new products to help customers improve their financial health: Credit Builder and Pay Later.

Credit Builder lets people in the UK with little or no credit history automatically improve their credit score by simply using their Paysend card for their daily spending when linked to their Paysend Credit Builder account in the Paysend app. The major UK credit reference agencies

Coutts and NatWest have launched a programme to help entrepreneurs in the Interactive Entertainment (IE) space build and develop their businesses.

Starting in June 2022, the six-month accelerator is aimed at ambitious e-sports, gaming, social media and streaming entrepreneurs across the UK who have recently started a business or are thinking about forming a company. 

Kalliopi Chioti, Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer, Temenos, said:

“This is a landmark day for Britain’s largest companies and financial institutions as they are now mandated to disclose TCFD-aligned climate-related financial information. Those impacted include many large banks, who we know from our work with them are increasingly making net zero targets central to their business and customer strategies, while looking for like-minded business partners with strong ESG commitments.