finova, the leading mortgage and savings tech provider, today announces its partnership with Quantum Mortgages – an intermediary-only specialist lender supporting landlords across the UK. finova and Quantum expect to launch formally by Q1, 2022.

VoxSmart Ltd., the global leader in communications surveillance, has today cemented its APAC presence with the opening of a new office in Queenstown, New Zealand, further building on the global growth of the firm over the last year.

This strategic partnership will combine Bain’s industry leading management consulting with Aura’s innovative global luxury blockchain solutions

 Smartpay K.K. today announced the launch of its new "Buy Now Pay Later" (BNPL) service, which combines an all-in-one payment experience and interest free payment solution, designed to solve Japanese consumer payment issues and improve merchant conversion rates.

Built out of a passion for enabling Japanese merchants to succeed in e-commerce, Smartpay aims to remove the anxiety of shopping online for Japanese credit card users with the first completely free and secure, seamless, fully automated, online payment experience.

• Regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority with affordability checks - unlike many unregulated ‘Buy Now Pay Later’ offers 
• Easy and flexible payments – with just one amount to pay each month across multiple plans, with an app to track and manage payments

Smart Engines scientists have developed multi-code and continuous session scanning in anticipation of a challenging epidemiological situation worldwide. In particular, now the mandatory Covid-19 QR code scanning required for entering certain premises in some countries is greatly simplified for staff and customers. If identity confirmation is necessary for the QR code, the Smart Engines solution also allows ID scanning.

Tribe’s API-led approach reduced OnerWay’s implementation time to under three months 

New proposition opens up opportunities in the fast-growing Indian digital commerce space for international businesses

Commenting on the market reaction to the latest UK employment data, Jesús Cabra Guisasola, Associate at Validus Risk Management, said: “The UK jobs market improved during the month of October, bringing +160k more people into employment and partially offsetting workers who were on the government’s furlough program during the pandemic. It suggests very few of the 1.1m workers who were in the program became unemployed, and also showed a strong average earning and unemployment rate, better than forecast.

 London-based global payments service provider SumUp (www.sumup.co.uk) today announces the launch of a new Business Account solution for SumUp merchants in the UK, and almost a dozen European markets. The Business Account from SumUp is central to the evolution of the company’s core package, as it looks to expand its merchant offering. Upon launch, the solution will enable over 130,000 merchants to get paid into their business account.