There has been a substantial rise in the number of people using a simpler way to pay their tax bill ahead of the self-assessment deadline on 31st January. Taxpayers are increasingly using Pay by Bank technology to send money to His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

Policy Expert, one of the UK’s leading personal lines insurers spanning home, motor, and pet insurance to over 1.5million customers today announces the appointment of Mark Wilson as its new Chair, as it looks to accelerate growth and build on its position as one of the UK’s fastest-growing insurance brands.

The appointment will take effect from February 2025.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today ordered the international remittance company Wise to pay nearly $2.5 million for a series of illegal actions, including advertising inaccurate fees and failing to properly disclose exchange rates and other costs. Wise allows customers to send, receive, and store remittances through a mobile app and prepaid accounts and debit cards. The CFPB found the company misled customers in the United States about its ATM fees and failed to properly disclose other fees.

Cedar Money, a payments company that enables seamless cross-border money movement on stablecoins, announced today a $9.9 million seed round led by QED Investors, with participation from North Island Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Lattice, and Stellar. The funding will enable Cedar Money to accelerate its mission of transforming international money flows using cutting-edge payment infrastructure.

The Springs Arkansas, the leading skilled nursing provider across Arkansas, is celebrating three years of partnership with DailyPay – a worktech platform and leading provider of earned wage access. Throughout this partnership, The Springs Arkansas is empowering employees with the ability to access their earned pay on their own timeline.

NMI®, a global leader in embedded payments infrastructure, announces NMI Customer Token Vault, a new extension to the NMI Gateway. Customer Token Vault introduces network tokenization with dynamic tokens issued and managed by major card networks, along with the ability to securely store and protect sensitive card data for processor agnostic provider tokens.

Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its annual list of consumer reporting companies. The list identifies dozens of specialty reporting companies that collect and sell access to people’s data, including individuals’ finances, employment, check writing histories, or rental history records. People can use the list to, among other things, request their consumer reporting data, dispute inaccuracies, and block access to their credit reporting data through security freezes.

ServiceNow , the AI platform for business transformation, announced today an expansion of its strategic alliance with Visa, a world leader in digital payments.

Sterling Trading Tech, a leading global provider of technology in order management, risk & margin, and trading platforms, today announced that industry technology sales professional Chris Contrino has joined the firm. Sterling has a robust business development team in place and Contrino brings substantial expertise that will be additive in achieving growth projections.