Antom, a leading provider of merchant payment and digitisation services under Ant International, has announced the launch of EPOS360, an integrated app designed to help micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) streamline and scale their operations.

Santander UK today announces the appointment of Gail Russell as Head of Everyday Banking, joining the bank on 10 November. Gail will report directly into Enrique Alvarez, CEO of Santander UK’s Retail and Business Banking.

As Head of Everyday Banking, Gail joins the Retail and Business Banking leadership team, where she will oversee current accounts, savings and unsecured personal lending, and will be responsible for driving forward the continued evolution of Santander’s Everyday Banking proposition.

OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, has strengthened its European payments infrastructure with the addition of Netherlands-issued virtual IBANs (NL vIBANs), providing greater domestic euro account access for its clients.

Tech startups are embracing stablecoins to streamline cross-border payments and boost operational efficiency, new research from issuer processing powerhouse Enfuce reveals. But adoption is still being constrained by concerns over fraud and links to criminal activity. 

BMLL, one of the world’s leading independent providers of historical data and analytics, has been selected to support EuroCTP as part of the EU’s Consolidated Tape initiative.

One of the keys behind the future success of the consolidated tape for equities is the quality of the data itself. Thanks to this collaboration, EuroCTP will be in a position to validate its data quality control designs, and calibrate the thresholds and parameters for those controls ahead of go live, should EuroCTP be selected. 

 A new report released today at Web Summit, Lisbon, by one of the UK’s fastest growing fintech lenders, Juice, uncovers the hidden behavioural forces driving the UK’s £65 billion SME funding gap, and how lenders, FinTech's, and policymakers must act to close it.

Ravelin is warning e-commerce merchants to urgently review their payment strategy ahead of Black Friday, as new research reveals a global drop in frictionless authentication rates, threatening sales conversions during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year.

Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, has released its proprietary Falcon TST (Time-Series Transformer) AI model, the industry-first Mixture of Experts architecture-based big data model with multiple patch tokenizers, supported by up to 2.5 billion parameters. The model has also achieved state-of-the-art zero-shot results on well-acknowledged long-term forecasting benchmarks, such as absolute mean error rates.

Starling has teamed up with Small Business Britain, the UK’s leading champion of small businesses, to found a campaign to empower women across the UK to start and grow their businesses. 

PPRO, the leading local payments platform, today announced the launch of Buy Now Pay Local, a new solution that enables Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and merchants to access the local Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) options that consumers prefer, through a single, seamless integration.