TransUnion, a global information and insights company, has released results from its Q1 Consumer Pulse survey revealing sustained demand for Buy Now, Pay Later services (BNPL).

BNPL services allow consumers to split purchases into manageable instalments, often interest-free. Nearly a quarter of adults (23%) said they have used the service in the past year, mirroring pre-festive season observations.

Skipify, a leading financial technology company redefining the checkout experience, today announced its partnership with Visa, a world leader in global payments technology, through the Visa Digital Commerce Program. Through this effort, Skipify aims to reinvent the way consumers transact, leveraging cutting-edge technologies to simplify and accelerate the payment process.

UnaCash, an in-app and in-store financial solutions provider, was launched in 2021 in the Philippines as part of UnaFinancial, a Singapore-headquartered fintech group. UnaCash was started as a buy now, pay later service, while in July 2023 it was upgraded to offer point-of-sale (POS) loans to customers. Now, the service also provides installment loans amounting from ₱3,000 to ₱50,000 with a repayment period of 2 to 12 months. They are being offered to existing customers with outstanding credit history.

Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions has launched OneSumX® Reg Manager to help U.S. community banks and credit unions enhance their regulatory change management efforts.

Tally, a fintech startup known for helping people diligently pay down their credit card debt, today announced the release of its white-labeled credit card debt management software, a B2B offering that scales Tally’s mission to give consumers a better path to debt management. Tally's first partner, a large publicly traded consumer company with more than 50 million users, is slated to launch Tally’s software to its users in July 2024.

Neonomics, a leading open banking company and Endavu, the fastest-growing investment platform in Denmark, have partnered to streamline the process for users of Endavu to fund their investment accounts. This collaboration aims to enhance accessibility, allowing users to seamlessly invest in over 50,000 different stocks and ETFs across more than 25 different markets.

Apex Group has become the first transfer agent and fund service provider to administer regulated securities, using blockchain as the book of record. This ground-breaking approach enables global private market funds to access a more diverse and significantly larger pool of qualified investors.

Today, the world’s leading Intake and Procurement Orchestration platform and Intake-to-Pay suite, Zip introduces new enterprise capabilities that enable businesses to drive compliance, strengthen integrations across other tools, and scale faster as the company helps customers, including publicly traded companies such as Northwestern Mutual, Coinbase, and Snowflake, save billions.

The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are consulting on their proposed approach to operating the Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS). The DSS is an initiative run by the regulators that will help facilitate the adoption of innovative technology in digital assets in the UK.