Financial services organizations that provide investment advice, and which sell life insurance, annuities and other wealth products, are finding that regulators are escalating how closely they monitor advisor behaviour.

European mobile payments pioneer, Settle Group, provider of the mobile payment service Settle in 22 EU markets, has partnered with Currencycloud, a leading provider of B2B embedded cross-border solutions,  to add foreign exchange and cross-border payments for its invoice financing and factoring customers across Europe.

The leading open banking platform Nordic API Gateway has partnered with the major fintech provider for Nordic banks, BEC. The collaboration is set to enable 27 banks in Denmark with open banking services for more than 2.1 million bank customers. 

FLEETCOR® UK today announced it has made a minority investment in Mina, a cloud-based digital software platform that simplifies charging and payments management for commercial fleets with electric vehicles (EVs).

The international group of financial service providing companies Gerlionti Group has announced that they are partnering up with award-winning RegTech company Know Your Customer to provide a fully remote corporate onboarding process for their new payment solution GerliPay.

HIPS Payment Group Ltd., a provider of innovative and cost-effective e-commerce and mobile payment solutions, today announced that their highly anticipated cryptocurrency, Merchant Token (MTO), has launched, alongside their Merchant Protocol (HMP) and the Hips Merchant Protocol Gateway (HMP-gateway).

FinGo, the biometric identity authentication solutions provider, has made several key hires within the fintech space, including the appointment of Katie Brownridge as Chief Operations Officer and Andy Horton as Chief Technology Officer.

Southeast Asia has emerged as a Fintech Hotspot and a recent digital economy report indicates huge growth opportunity for digital financial services in the region.

Recognising this huge potential in the FinTech sector, TRADEPASS is bringing the 6th Edition World Financial Innovation Series to ASEAN on the 7–8 April 2021.

UTP Pro, which is approved by Barclaycard and accredited by both Mastercard International and VISA Europe, officially launches on 1 April and is expected to rollout to thousands of businesses by the end of 2021. This will include businesses across the in-store retail and hospitality sectors that have been particularly hard-hit by pandemic and the lockdowns that have followed.

COVID-19 has been a curate’s egg for financial services. Occasionally buoyant markets and strong results in some sectors, balanced with significant shifts in operating models and sharply accelerated client expectations.