xpate, the payments platform that prioritises simplicity, speed and user experience, has announced the start of a strategic partnership with Mastercard to further enhance its innovative payments services as a principal Mastercard participant.

As a principal member, xpate will work directly with Mastercard to enhance its xpate Stacks platform, offer its innovative solution to new clients, bolster its merchant acquiring portfolio, and take advantage of an extended range of products and services to strengthen its offering in the market. 

Non-bank lenders have become a popular alternative to traditional banks when it comes to acquiring loans. According to data presented by TradingPlatforms.com, PayPal is the largest non-bank lender in the world with $54.27B in total assets.

Family Fund Business Services has met its ambition to deliver digital payment services to its local authority clients, with the help of PayPoint and its innovative cash voucher solution, Cash Out.  Over £7.5 million of much needed cash was quickly and easily released to local authorities and their beneficiaries during 2020, as a result of the collaboration between the two organisations.

Despite non-bankable assets (nBAs) accounting for around one third of global private wealth, they often come with high entry barriers for investors. However, this is forecast to change significantly over the next few years as innovative technologies and solutions allow financial institutions to value, hold and issue nBAs in the form of tokenized assets, alongside traditional ones such as stocks and bonds.

Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, was mentioned as a distinguished vendor in the February report Front-to-Middle office Platforms: North American Wealth Management Edition 2021 by Celent. 

Surecomp, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced the addition of document forgery detection solution Valida by Gradiant to its Marketplace platform. The latest fintech partner to join the company’s trade finance ecosystem platform is a key prevention tool in the fight against fraud. 

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, announced it has now executed more than two million trades, representing a total volume of 585 million securitised derivatives traded. This major milestone comes less than 18 months after it first launched, with Spectrum’s 24/5 trading hours continuing to prove particularly popular. 

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which promotes collaboration and innovation across payments, has today published a new paper that shows the serious problem of financial exclusion in the UK and how innovation in Fintech can allow people to access affordable credit. This comes at a time when over 10 million adults in the UK cannot access affordable credit, often because of low credit scores or badly designed credit products.

One of the recently crowned FinTech unicorns, Razorpay announced its third ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) Buyback program worth $10Mn (INR 73 Crore) for its 750 employees. All existing and former employees of Razorpay who hold vested stocks will be eligible to sell up to 33% of their vested ESOP shares. Sequoia Capital India and GIC, two of Razorpay’s key investors will be the buyers involved in this development.