• Leading global cruise company streamlines its global payments acquiring and processing services by choosing Worldpay from FIS as a preferred payments processing provider.
• Norwegian will also use Worldpay value-added services including customer authentication and advanced data analytics.

London-based fintech aiming to help thousands of first-time buyers and ‘second steppers’ on property ladder 

neo-lender Proportunity has raised £105m ($150m) investment through debt and equity funding as it aims to support more people achieve their UK home ownership dream. The new investment follows a £7.3m ($10m) funding round in 2020 for the London-based fintech. 

Over the past few months, non-fungible tokens or NFTs have skyrocketed in popularity, drawing more and more attention from investors.

According to data presented by Block Arabia, NFT trading activity surged by 940% YoY, with the number of active wallets reaching 179,000 last week.

William Je Founder & CEO, Hamilton Investment Management Ltd will be taking part in Digital Assets Week in London on the 21 October.

Izola Bank, a Maltese bank wholly owned by Belgium based Van Marcke Group, has chosen HPD Lendscape, a leading international secured-lending platform vendor, as the Bank’s new technology partner to replace the legacy working capital technology.

A bombshell investigative report was released recently that exposed how the world's wealthiest and powerful were able to use a hidden financial system to their benefit.  It was no surprise that this report was released by the International Consortium of Investigate Journalists (ICIJ), a non-profit newsroom comprised of investigators that work with a global network of nearly 300 reporters and 100 media organizations in more than 100 countries.

Contour, the digital trade finance network, has partnered with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) to enable the use of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs) within its network and to financially support its members in obtaining their own LEI.

The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA), the cross-industry financial services membership body, is calling on the Chancellor ahead of the Autumn Budget, which is due on 27^th October, to implement four concrete policies that will meaningfully improve consumer financial wellbeing.

These are:

Bags the title of ‘The Female Economy FinTech of the Year’

LXME – India’s first financial platform for women ,won the title ‘The Female Economy Fintech of the Year’ at the Financial Alliance for Women Hackathon. This serves as a global recognition for the start-up that focuses on empowering women with financial freedom.

Heading into the festive season, it is more important than ever to ensure that computer and smartphone users are protected from increases in brute force attacks, instances of banking malware, and cryptocurrency threats.