Lanistar Unveils World's First Polymorphic Payment Card
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Lanistar, a new hassle-free banking alternative, has today revealed its world-first polymorphic payment card, known as the Volt card, and begun to accept user registrations and app downloads ahead of its product launch in January 2021.
Raiffeisen Bank International Launches Its Enhanced API Marketplace
- 4 years 7 months ago
- APIs, Banking
Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has just launched its enhanced group-wide API Marketplace that serves as a platform to engage with other market players and invites them to build new products and services. RBI’s corporate clients can leverage the platform and embed banking services into their internal systems, while retail customers can benefit from new services through third-party providers.
65% of Brits Are Worried About Their Financial Security as Money Worries Rise, Research Reveals
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Personal Finance, Security
Toluna’s ‘Understanding the 2020 Consumer’ Global Barometer Study is a bi-weekly index that taps into a community panel of 30+ million members providing accurate and timely information on the world’s current perceptions. The latest research surveyed 1,093 respondents in the UK. KEY FINDINGS The Coronavirus pandemic has now lasted 8 months, and our financial health is certainly suffering. Out of those surveyed:
JCB Sees Contactless Growth Among Cardmembers and Retail Partners, as Economic Uncertainty Accelerates Mobile Payments
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
JCB International Co., Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd., today reveals substantial growth of JCB Contactless usage by cardmembers and adoption by retail partners.
Global Processing Services Selected as London Export Champions for International Trade
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Payments
Leading payments issuer processor, Global Processing Services (GPS), has been selected by the Department for International Trade (DIT) to become a London Export Champion. GPS joins a prestigious cohort of Export Champions who operate across various sectors, ranging from fintech to sustainable transportation, innovative food and drink products, to events management.
Envoy Bolsters Tech Stack with Bolero’s Electronic Bill of Lading (eBL) solution
- 4 years 7 months ago
- e-billing
Envoy has partnered with leading trade digitalisation technology provider Bolero International to use Bolero’s electronic bill of lading (eBL) as-a-service in its highly-advanced digital trade platform built on R3’s Corda. Envoy employs blockchain technologies to bring significant efficiencies to global supply chain and trade finance – while injecting vital and once-unobtainable liquidity into the system by decentralising finance (DeFi) and...
WTO Recognizes Russian Supply Chain Finance Platform Factorin Among the World’s Leading Blockchain Projects
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Blockchain, Supply Chain Finance
According to WTO experts, platforms built on decentralized technologies can help world trade not only overcome the current crisis, but also accelerate market development while helping us better prepare for and manage the inevitable crises of the future. A big part of helping make that happen through 2020 and beyond is blockchain.
Beyond Analysis Launches Beyond AML to Revolutionise the Regulated Sector Through Data-Driven Transformation
- 4 years 7 months ago
- RegTech, AML and KYC
Beyond Analysis, the leader in GlobalTech, AI & Machine Learning, announces the launch of its sister company Beyond AML; which has been built to revolutionise the regulated sector. Beyond AML deploys the latest in AI technology and synthetic data techniques, to build insights into client & transaction activities and behaviours to fix and optimise end-to-end AML processes.
triBalance Completes First FX SA-CCR Optimization Cycle
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Trading Systems, Foreign Exchange
TriOptima, a leading infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and to mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, announced the completion of its first triBalance FX cycle optimizing exposures for clients who calculate their leverage ratio capital requirements under the Standardized Approach for Measuring Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR). Bilateral and cleared initial margin exposures were simultaneously optimized in the FX cycle that took...
Glint Pay Secures Additional £2.5m in Funding to Scale Up Growth After P2P Launch
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Investment
Glint Pay, the London-based fintech, has announced that it has secured an additional £2.5m in funding to support growth plans and increase its customer base to 138,000 active users in the next 12 months. This funding is announced after the recent launch of a peer-to-peer facility, known as Glint It!, which allows customers to instantly send or receive money, including real, spendable gold and other currencies.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Nuggets Partner To Enable Self-Sovereign Digital Identity Solutions
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Digital Identity
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions and UK Fintech startup Nuggets have today announced a formalised partnership working together to enable the implementation of self-sovereign digital identity (SSI) solutions.
As Nearly Half of 16-25 Year Olds Could Be Plunged Back Into ‘lockdown Loneliness’, Supporting Human Connections is Critical During Pandemic, Says Paysend
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Covid-19, Money Transfers
As nearly half of 16-25 year olds could be plunged back into ‘lockdown loneliness’, supporting human connections is critical during pandemic. • Mental Health Foundation data: 44% of 16-25 year olds experienced loneliness during lockdown • 1 in 4 UK adults felt lonely during lockdown, way up from 1 in 10 before the pandemic • Paysend money transfers aiming to connect friends and families during lockdown to help this
AutoRek Announces US Partnership With iSoftware4Banks
- 4 years 7 months ago
- RegTech, Compliance
Scottish fintech company, AutoRek, a leading software provider to global financial services firms announces its partnership with iSoftware4Banks, a US-based provider of services to support effective financial reporting and compliance. AutoRek and iSoftware4Banks are joining forces to meet their common goals of improved automation and delivering ROI in the financial services space. Combining highly experienced consultants with leading data...
TCS Deepens Strategic Partnership with Prudential Financial
- 4 years 7 months ago
- M&A Deals
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organisation, and Prudential Financial, Inc. (PFI), a financial wellness leader and premier active global investment manager, announce that they are entering into an agreement that will see TCS acquire the staff and select assets of Pramerica Systems Ireland Ltd. (Pramerica), PFI’s subsidiary based in Letterkenny, Ireland.
Solactive Acquires Minority Stake in Green Financial Technology Platform Spark Change
- 4 years 7 months ago
- Investment
Solactive is pleased to announce the acquisition of a minority stake in Spark Change. Inflows in ESG linked investments are at their all-time peak, and more investors are well-disposed towards integrating ESG factors into the investment process. At the same time, product providers’ and institutions’ ESG requirements are many-faceted, and one-size-fits-all solutions are simply non-existent.
