• Open Banking credit reference agency, Credit Kudos, launches highly accurate, explainable Open Banking credit score, Signal.
• Signal leverages Credit Kudos’ wealth of Open Banking insights to translate transaction data into a score to accurately assess someone’s creditworthiness in real-time. 
• Signal enables lenders to accurately assess all applicants - not just those with previous credit history - using highly relevant, up-to-date financial behaviour. 

Europe’s leading fintech scales its operations within the U.S. through the acquisition of America’s largest local commerce network 

Digital bank Zopa has announced the appointment of Helen Beurier as its first Chief People Officer. 

Implementation of TRM Labs’ tools further strengthens XREX’s ability to monitor transactions to ensure a clean and secure ecosystem

- China Minsheng Bank, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase  are latest to go live to support small businesses and consumers  with fast, secure, predictable cross-border payments 

- Rapid adoption of SWIFT Go since launch in July reinforces  SWIFT strategy for instant, frictionless cross-border transactions 

• Today, Creditspring launches ‘Step’, a new credit builder product which helps people improve their credit score, restore their financial health and to access affordable forms of credit.
• This comes as new Creditspring research finds that 28% of 18–34-year-olds are unaware of how to improve their credit score.

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) solutions provider, today announces new intelligent exceptions management design for its cloud-native AI-powered SmartStream Air solution – enabling the process of identification, prioritisation, allocation, and audit to be further simplified.

Covid 19 has led to unprecedented market volatility and changing consumer demands. This coupled with digital transformation, energy transition and an intense geopolitical landscape r, 2021 changed the face of the industry forever.

A global shift toward environmental accountability, major technological disruptions and unexpected economic activity are all creating exciting opportunities and stark challenges for trading houses, investors, producers, traders, buyers and governments alike.

The credit card sector was hit hard by COVID-19 lockdowns and the economic downturn, but increased spending on debit cards as consumers shunned cash drove overall growth in card expenditure

Concerns about COVID-19 saw consumers turn to contactless