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British Patient Capital Announces €30m Commitment to Partech Growth II

British Patient Capital has made a €30m commitment to Partech Growth II, which announced its final close today at €650m.

Partech is one of the most active tech-specialist venture capital firms in the world, and this latest fund is one of the largest growth funds in Europe. It aims to back between 12 and 15 digital scale-ups, investing between €20m and €70m in each business across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer, healthcare, financial services, education and other frontier technologies. 

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 09:41
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Multi-currency and FX “business-critical” for 94% of Fintechs post-pandemic

New insights from ClearBank demonstrate industry demand for accessible and competitive multi-currency offering

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 09:30
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Reward Extends Visa Partnership Into Asia Pacific To Provide Award Winning Merchant Offers To Issuers Across The Region

Reward have announced the extension of their partnership with Visa to cover all the markets across Asia-Pacific. Building from their partnership in Europe, this deal now allows Visa cardholders to benefit from Reward merchant offer content, through Visa Offers eXchange, a marketplace that uses Visa transaction data to provide cardholders with more personalised merchant offers.   

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 09:27
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ZebPay appoints Tarun Jain as Chief Financial Officer

Tarun will be responsible for shaping the strategic and long-term financial direction of the company

ZebPay, India’s most trusted and oldest crypto asset exchange, has announced the appointment of Tarun Jain as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Tarun will shape the strategic and long-term financial direction of ZebPay’s business. He will work closely with the organization’s leadership team to scale the organization and its systems for the next phase of growth.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 09:23
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Worldline Announces its Full-service Cross-border Payment Solution for Accepting Online Payments from South Korea

The country has Asia’s highest internet penetration percentage, is ranked fifth worldwide for ease of doing business and saw cross-border ecommerce tally $9.5 billion in 2020

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 09:21
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2021: The year of the Online Payment

As the world moved indoors two years ago, the online payment space flourished. These are the biggest developments in 2021, and a brief look ahead.

This year, South Africans embraced e-commerce, mobile commerce and digital payments like never before - all four major banks have seen massive increases in these payment methods since the start of the pandemic. Absa, for one, says 66% of people now prefer electronic payments over cash.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 08:33
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Financial Ombudsman Service Goes Live On Workday

Workday will help to digitally transform entire back-office

The Financial Ombudsman Service has gone live on Workday Financial Management and Workday Human Capital Management to help it to digitally transform its entire back office and the way it operates. 

The Financial Ombudsman Service was set up by Parliament in 2001 to resolve complaints between financial businesses and their customers. Every year over 1 million people contact the service.

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 08:24
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IDT Corporation to Report First Quarter Fiscal Year 2022 Results

IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT), a global provider of fintech, cloud communications, and traditional communications services, has scheduled its report of financial and operational results for the first quarter of its 2022 fiscal year (the three months ended October 31st) on Tuesday, December 7, 2021. 

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 08:19
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Mastercard SpendingPulse: Thanksgiving Weekend Retail Sales +14.1% year-over-year
Monday, November 29, 2021 - 17:02
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Elucidate Expands Global Presence with Miami Office to Bring Financial Crime Benchmark to US Market

  Berlin-based fintech is the market’s only authorised financial crime benchmark for banks and financial institutions 

·       Former HSBC Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Ben Arber, will head up US business development  

·       Elucidate employs more than 35 people across Europe and has raised €5.7M in funding to date 

Monday, November 29, 2021 - 17:00
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