INVESTMENTSPlum Snags $13.9M in Series A Funding
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Fundraising News, Management, Money Transfers
London-based FinTech Plum on Friday (Oct. 15) announced the close of a 12 million euro ($13.9 million) Series A funding round, part of an anticipated 20.7 million euro ($24 million) effort that will be used to expand the company and increase interest in its money management app.
Dakota Credit Union Association Collaborates with Leading AI-based Credit Decisioning Platform Provider Scienaptic AI
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Lending, Credit Cards
Scienaptic announced today a collaboration with the Dakota Credit Union Association (DakCU) enabling the company to offer its AI-based credit underwriting technology to credit unions throughout North and South Dakota.
Credit Card Confusion: Clearpay Launches New Report Calling For More Transparency In The Sector
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Credit Cards
Two in five Brits are confused about credit scores, 62% are anxious about interest or fees and nearly half are concerned about how credit card debt or credit checks will impact their future
B4B Payments Partners with Sentinels to Support Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Across European Markets
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Sentinels’ risk-based model boosts accurate detection rates and provides flexibility to monitor transactions across all B4B Payments’ solutions Sentinels, Europe’s leading transaction monitoring platform, today announced a partnership with leading global provider of card issuing solutions for businesses, B4B Payments. The Sentinels platform will facilitate B4B Payments in meeting anti-money laundering (AML) compliance requirements by improving... more
Smart Engines Rolls out its Ai-driven Software in Super App Kaspi.kz - Kazakhstan's most Significant Payments, Marketplace, and Fintech Ecosystem
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Payments
The most innovative fintech bank in Kazakhstan, Kaspi, will use Smart Engines' AI to credit card scanning in its mobile applications
Worldline Joins Forces with FIDO Alliance
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Taking the next step in safe and user-friendly online identification Worldline (Euronext: WLN) has become a member of the FIDO Alliance, a worldwide organisation that aims to standardise and bring interoperability in the authentication world. Through this membership, Worldline is taking a further step in its online identification strategy, as it is convinced that strong authentication, interoperability, and the use of biometrics are crucial in... more
Tinkoff Becomes Russia’s First Financial Institution to Join the Science Based Targets initiative
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Earlier in November Tinkoff disclosed its full carbon footprint for the whole value chain Tinkoff has become the first Russian financial institution to join the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), a global body enabling businesses to set ambitious science based emissions reduction targets in line with the latest climate science. It is focused on accelerating companies and financial institutions across the world to halve emissions... more
TotallyMoney and Zuto giving the Green Light to more Accurate Car Finance
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments
Reward Extends Visa Partnership Into Asia Pacific To Provide Award Winning Merchant Offers To Issuers Across The Region
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
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.
ZebPay appoints Tarun Jain as Chief Financial Officer
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
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... more
2021: The year of the Online Payment
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
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.
Worldline Announces its Full-service Cross-border Payment Solution for Accepting Online Payments from South Korea
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
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
Mastercard SpendingPulse: Thanksgiving Weekend Retail Sales +14.1% year-over-year
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Entering a New Realm of Investing - Solactive Delivers Innovative ‘Global Metaverse Index’ for First Canadian Metaverse ETF by Horizons ETFs
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
Decades have passed since the establishment of the first virtual worlds, such as World of Warcraft or Second Life, and developers' aspirations to create immersive universes where users can roam freely have not reduced their pace. Meta’s (formerly known as Facebook) new 'Metaverse' depicts the latest development in that segment, and through the inclusion of virtual reality content in real life, so called augmented reality, both the digital and... more
Night Time Industries Association Partner with Zapaygo to Launch New “Ask For Angela” Safeguarding Feature Within the Order and Pay App for Businesses Across the Sector
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Payments
The Night Time Industries Association and preferred partner Zapaygo, one of the UK’s leading order and pay apps, launches ‘Ask for Angela’ feature, to be available across all their venues as part of the broader safeguarding initiative available to businesses.
