FinTech Scotland and Smart Data Foundry are collaborating to bring an industry-wide UK fintech innovation challenge to the market. This challenge seeks to inspire the development of inclusive financial services for consumers, empowering them on their journey towards a secure financial future.

Building on the success of the previous SME business banking program in 2023, the 2024 emphasis will be on new innovative solutions that can support people's financial journeys as they plan for their later years.

The U.S Chamber of Commerce’s U.S-Africa Business Center has announced Flutterwave as the new Vice Chair of the U.S-Africa Business Center Board of Directors, represented by Founder and CEO, Olugbenga GB Agboola. This announcement was made in the U.S-Nigeria Executive Dialogue in New York City with the endorsement of H.E. President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria, accompanied by the commendation of USAfBC Board Chair company, PepsiCo.

Neonomics, a leading open banking company and Qvik, a leading developer of digital consumer products, have signed a strategic partnership to jointly promote and deploy open banking services to customers across the Nordics and UK.

Qvik's core service is designing and deploying digital and native mobile offerings. Working with some of the largest and most established companies in the region, Qvik has quickly built a strong customer network in large part to its agility and payments expertise.

Fime has advanced its collaboration with imark to provide local EMV®* Level 3 test services in Nepal. Together, the companies will support the nation’s rapidly expanding digital payments ecosystem by providing local testing and consultancy services to issuers and acquirers.

Mastercard announces the return of Women SME Leaders Awards for its third edition, shining a spotlight on the remarkable achievements of women-owned and led businesses across Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA).

Droit, a technology firm at the forefront of computational law and regulation, will partner with FINBOURNE Technology, a provider of cloud-based investment data management software, to launch an end-to-end position reporting solution for increased regulatory transparency.

Over one hundred global jurisdictions have position reporting obligations, requiring market participants to report equity and equity derivatives holdings to regulatory bodies; a process that is complex, time consuming and costly.

Global real-time payments growth has reached sustainable levels with 266.2 billion real-time payments transactions recorded in 2023—a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 42.2%—according to the 2024 Prime Time for Real-Time report, published by ACI Worldwide, a global leader in mission-critical, real-time payments software, in partnership with GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

Crown Agents Bank, the specialist provider of foreign exchange (FX) and cross-border payments for hard-to-reach markets, and Invest Africa, a leading platform for business and investment opportunities in Africa, today announces a new collaboration, ‘The Payments Exchange’. The campaign will drive new insight and understanding around the role of FX and payments in the economic transformation of Africa.

Gatehouse Bank has appointed Phillip McLelland as a Non-Executive Director of the Bank.

Phillip McLelland joined the Board of Gatehouse Bank in April 2024 with over 30 years of experience within highly commercial, complex, and regulated environments, including energy and financial services.