In 2019, former President Donald Trump staged a showdown with the Universal Postal Union over China’s unfair postal rates. His resulting victory saw US packet rates increase by an average of 50% in July 2020. Ten months on, ParcelHero asks, ‘Could UPU reform be a positive legacy of Trump’s time in office?’

Engagement banking technology provider Backbase today announces it has renewed its partnership with leading UK retail and commercial challenger bank Metro Bank. The focus of the renewed partnership sees Backbase providing dedicated digital innovation support for Metro Bank’s business banking customers. By leveraging the latest cloud-native version of Backbase’s platform, which includes a vast amount of off-the-shelf accelerators for business banking, Metro Bank is able to further enhance and tailor the experience offered to its business customers. 

Nets Group has today announced a significant new appointment to its C-Suite:

James Hicks has joined Nets Group as Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer for its Merchant Services division. Based in Frankfurt, Hicks will be responsible for strategically enhancing the relationships, processes and solutions of Nets and its key strategic partners.

PXP Financial, the global expert in acquiring and payment processing services, has today published a research report ‘The COVID-19 Effect on European E-Commerce and Retail’, exploring UK and European consumer attitudes to the future of retail shopping.

George Govier has been appointed as Sales Executive at United Fintech, the firm launched by Christian Frahm in November 2020 to enable banks and financial institutions to accelerate access to innovative digital technology from a wide range of fintechs specialising in capital markets.

George Govier joins United Fintech following five years at Goldman Sachs where he worked in Prime Brokerage, within the Global Markets Division, helping European hedge fund clients to launch new funds with the bank.

TORA, provider of industry leading trading technology, has today announced that Cowen Outsourced Trading has selected TORA’s Order and Execution Management System (OEMS) for Fixed Income a

Europe’s leading open banking platform Tink, and payments technology provider Tribe, have entered a channel partnership for open banking technology. The partnership will enable Tribe to combine its issuer and acquirer services, with payment initiation services (PIS) and account information services (AIS) powered by Tink.

Leading dispute technology specialist, Chargebacks911, and Fi911, its revolutionary dispute management brand for financial institutions, today announce the appointment of Matt Stein as Senior Vice President of Brand Strategy. 

IRIS Software Group (IRIS), the number one software supplier to accountancy practices has today announced the launch of IRIS Elements, the next generation cloud accountancy platform. 

Next generation banking-as-a-service platform, HUBUC, has partnered with the hyper-scale Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and risk detection provider ComplyAdvantage to integrate its innovative compliance and security screening technology.