Evalueserve, a global leader in analytics consulting, today announced a partnership with Encompass, a fast-growing provider of intelligently automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions. This partnership will augment Evalueserve’s KYC services with automated data discovery and process automation, which makes the overall onboarding and remediation process more efficient for banks, especially with the post-COVID challenges.

We really have been in the decade of the Fintech start-up. The payments world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change; new payment methods and technologies are resulting in increasingly frictionless payment experiences, causing closer integration between online shopping and payments to match the user experience.

Infinito, the leading multi-crypto wallet for users to easily start investing and earning more with digital assets, today announces its strategic partnership with Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin (BTC) marketplace that aims to provide financial inclusion around the globe.

 HPS, a leading multinational provider of payment solutions, today announces that it has completed the modernisation of Absa’s African Operations outside of South Africa (“ARO”) acquiring payments infrastructure journey.

The transformation journey started in July 2019 with HPS replacing the existing legacy acquiring switch with PowerCARD for eight countries where Absa operates: Botswana, Kenya, Mauritius, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda and Seychelles.

The Swiss subsidiary of First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) has selected Avaloq’s business process as a service (BPaaS) solution for a further long-term contract to support the institution’s strong growth ambitions. The bank, which awarded the contract to Avaloq after a highly competitive tender process, has been working with the company since 2007 and was its first private banking client in Geneva.

The lockdown measures, introduced in response to Covid-19, have had a profound effect on the spending and saving of UK consumers. Yolt, a smart money app with over one million registered users, has analysed anonymised transaction data from a representative sample of its users, to show how lockdown has affected spending in the UK.

Since Yolt allows users to aggregate and view all their accounts in one place, regardless of which banks they use, sampling Yolt’s data gives a clear view of UK consumers. Below are some of the main findings.

Bixin Global, one of China's largest cryptocurrency custody and mining operators, has launched a proprietary Fund of Funds amounting to 6600 BTC, or approximately USD 66 million. This announcement comes alongside the anticipated BTC Halving, as different stakeholders make various preparations for its arrival. The 6600 BTC fund seeks to empower global crypto quant funds by providing additional resources for liquidity providers and market making activities.

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