Worldline and subsidiary equensWorldline, European leaders in the payments and transactional services industry, have signed a strategic partnership with Nordic Finance Innovation (NFI), the largest fintech executive network in the Nordics. NFI, led by Chris Skinner (Chairman) and Iren Tranvåg (CEO), aims to boost Nordic innovation and collaboration trough joint Nordic and international initiatives and projects. The goal is to strengthen the... more Read more »
Almost half (44%) of UK businesses avoid or delay paying bills due to issues within their cashflow. Other commonly cited reasons for non-payment of invoices include receiving an incorrect invoice (21%) and corporate bureaucracy (20%). These were some of the findings of the FinTech Barometer 2019, an annual survey conducted among 1,000 finance professionals by fintech specialist Onguard. Read more »
Citi announced today the launch of the Citi Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Fintech Challenge. The Citi MENA Fintech Challenge offers the region’s Fintech community the opportunity to put their ideas into practice and come up with innovative solutions around four identified problem statements: · Digitizing Cash Collections · Assured Payments · B2B2C Enablement · Digitizing Trade Processes Read more »
Leading digital money transfer company WorldRemit (www.WorldRemit.com) has launched WorldRemit for Business (https://bit.ly/2wNtMPh), a new service that enables small and medium-sized business owners to quickly pay their employees and contractors in 140 countries worldwide, including fast-growing emerging markets such as Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa. The platform will first be available to U.K.-registered businesses. Read more »
Traydstream, the machine learning-based trade rules and compliance-checking platform, is excited by a new pilot partnership with Finnish multinational exporter, Nokia Corporation and several of its major advising banks. Orchestrated around an industry event in Finland earlier this year, Nokia was keen to pilot the Traydstream platform for a trail-blazing approach to improve the speed, efficiency as well as standardisation of their document... more Read more »
Dolfin, an independent and agile wealth management platform, has launched Dolfin Mastercard, a multi-currency payment card available exclusively to the firm’s private clients. Dolfin Mastercard, which is a prepaid card linked to a client’s Dolfin Payment Account and managed via an app or online platform, provides three key benefits: Read more »
ViViPAY (ViVi), a subsidiary of ViVi Holdings Inc. and a leading provider of “Fintech” financial technology solutions, announced today a partnership with Juniper Payments, LLC, the largest non-bank third-party provider of inter-bank transaction and reporting systems in the United States. The two companies will work together to provide a superior private-labeled mobile app experience powered by ViVi for thousands of community, independent banks,... more Read more »
IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced the launch of its Event Management tools within its BD Corporate suite, the industry's most comprehensive investor relations workflow solution. Read more »
This September over 250 heads of FX trading and portfolio management from Europe’s leading buy side firms will be exclusively gathering in Barcelona again for TradeTech FX. With over 600 market leading FX specialists in attendance, TradeTech FX continues to deliver the industry’s biggest and most senior FX event in Europe. 3 reasons why you should attend: Read more »
Today autologyx announces it has raised an additional £1 million to rapidly expand its foothold in legal, RPO and insurance sectors. The digital operations platform, which automates real-world, complex business processes, has seen significant growth over the past year, both in terms of recurring revenues – which have doubled, and demand for its market-leading platform. Read more »
Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, today announced a landmark partnership with Seed CX, the leading digital asset exchange built expressly for institutional investors. Avalecom’s institutional investors will now have access to Seed CX’s real time market data and order-routing solutions. This will meet global institutions’ desire to trade digital assets in a way... more Read more »
More than 1-billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family, anytime and anywhere. It is this very reason that has driven Wari (www.Wari.com) to integrate with the WhatsApp Business solution to enable customers – through strategic partnerships - to request its financial services around the world on WhatsApp. Read more »
SEDCO Capital, a leading global asset manager, has partnered with the CFA Institute to provide a best-practice case study on its fully Shariah-compliant Prudent Ethical Investment (PEI) strategy for a new report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration in equity and fixed-income investments. Read more »
Fenergo, a leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, today announces the launch of Digital Client Orchestration, a suite of CLM tools that integrates front, middle and back office systems using an API-led approach. Read more »
China’s ATM numbers continue rapid fall According to a brand-new report from RBR, Global ATM Market and Forecasts to 2024, ATM numbers dropped in four of the five largest markets in 2018. More than half the world’s ATMs are found in just five countries; of these China, the USA, Japan and Brazil saw a decrease in ATMs, whilst in India, growth slowed considerably. Read more »
