The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitisation of the financial world with clout and at breakneck speed. While banks became increasingly tech-focused pre-2020, it’s clear that financial institutions have stepped it up since the outbreak of the crisis, transforming their process handling to help fill the void created by lengthy queues on telephone or email helplines. But there is so much more potential on the fintech horizon for financial institutions, ultimately paving the way to an all-new DIY finance offering for customers.

Global paytech provider BPC today announced that it has extended its membership with Visa’s Fintech Fast Track Program to APAC, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The program makes it quicker and easier for fintechs to leverage Visa’s global payments network and introduce new payment experiences. This strategic initiative is a response to the surge in demand among fintech players to enhance their product propositions, expanding beyond their core businesses.

Filogix, a Finastra company, announced that it has enhanced its Filogix Expert offering with the launch of Filogix Expert Pro and Filogix Expert Plus – solutions that digitize the full end-to-end mortgage process.

Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today the successful launch of ‘Profile Vote’. The new digital channel for shareholders to securely submit their votes in General Meetings, utilising digitalised, secure and trusted technologies for members to register and users to view the results on one screen, real-time, fully accommodating the new directive and market requirements as developed in the post Covid-19 era.

Fintech company Visma | Onguard, the leading specialists in the order-to-cash process, has continued to expand its capabilities in technology, innovation and security during a challenging period in the financial industry, while growing its operations under the new Visma | Onguard brand following Onguard’s acquisition by Visma in February 2020.

Innovative software development start-up company Paymob has won a place on the Techstars Hub71 Accelerator.

The announcement comes after a rigorous selection process which saw just 10 companies accepted for the Class of 2021.

Hub71, based in Abu Dhabi, actively seeks to find and champion emerging talent across the technology industry.

DynaRisk today announced an extension of their seed funding round, bringing total funding to over $3m. This round of funding was led by Nexus Investments with participation from existing investors Insurance Capital Partners and Jonathan Marland. The company was originally backed by London based Cylon Lab.

EedenBull, a global fintech innovation company, specialising in B2B and Commercial Payment technology, has announced its expansion to North America with the opening of its first US office, in New York.

Leading connected payments provider, Checkout.com announces the key strategic hires of Ott Kaukver as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Nick Worswick as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Ott was previously CTO at Twilio and led engineering at Skype. Nick held the CRO position at both WeWork and GrubHub before joining Checkout.com.