Fintech Wirex Appoints Top Female Talent to Senior Marketing Role
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Payments
Wirex, a leading digital payments platform, has appointed Jenny Kong as the new Global Head of Marketing, where she’ll manage the Marketing team from New Zealand. The news follows her work co-founding the successful ‘Rising Women in Crypto Power List’ last year, and aligns with Wirex’s mission to show that crypto is open to all, and inclusion starts from within.
Smart Engines Became One of the 14 Companies to Recover the Tourism Industry in Portugal in the Post-COVID-19 Era
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Digital Identity
Smart Engines, a science-driven company, is participating in an international program The Journey PT 2021 for speeding up the restart of the Portuguese tourism industry after the pandemic. The main goal of The Journey is to help solve business challenges using global innovative solutions, especially for tourism. Turismo de Portugal is featured as the main partner of the program. The Journey is organized by collaborative innovation consultancy...
Compliance Leaders See Digital Transformation as Critical Over Next 12 Months
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Security and Compliance, Management
More than half of compliance professionals say digital transformation of the customer due diligence process will have the biggest impact on their risk organisation over the next 12 months, according to a new poll from digital compliance specialist NorthRow.
Cash in Circulation at a Decadal High Even When Digital Payments have Soared
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Payments
Mr Mandar Agashe, Founder and MD, Sarvatra technologies,” Covid-19 has not just pushed digitisation but it has also significantly influenced the manner in which people transact. Consumer demands and expenditures have shifted to minimum, mostly towards essentials and emergencies. In addition with the lockdown measures and social distancing norms people are not venturing out to banks and ATM as frequently.
‘Switch to Crypto is Moving at Breakneck Speed’ Reports Payment Firm
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Payments, E-Wallets, Cryptocurrencies, Banking
A leading e-wallet firm has revealed that cryptocurrency deposits increased by 48% in the first quarter of this year while fiat (official government) currency use remained flat. STICPAY figures show Bitcoin is the leading cryptocurrency of choice for its e-wallet users, dwarfing Ethereum, Litecoin and Tether by 38 times their combined usage.
Commenting on the UK Eonomy Set to Achieve the Expected 7.25% Growth Forecast in 2021
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Wealth Management
Commenting on the UK economy set to achieve the expected 7.25% growth forecast in 2021, Rupert Thompson, Chief Investment Officer at Kingswood, said: “The UK economy held up better than expected during lockdown in the first quarter. GDP posted a 1.5% drop over the quarter as a whole but encouragingly grew a larger than expected 2.1% in March as the economy started to reopen. These numbers will bolster hopes that the economy will achieve the 7.25...
How to Make SPAC Investing Profitable
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Investment Management
SPACs have recently become so popular because they offer opportunities for a higher valuation. SPAC in full is a Special-Purpose Acquisition Company. SPAC refers to a company that has no commercial operations. They are set up to raise capital to acquire existing companies to be merged with private companies. SPACs are desirable to private companies because major shareholders and founder can sell the companies at a higher percentage than they...
Why Explore Online Trading Platforms
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Trading Systems
In the last decade, online investing has become a pretty popular trend. Of course, there’s a good reason for this. Thanks to the rise of online trading platforms, people worldwide now have a chance to secure a better financial future for themselves through various investment opportunities. While taking a gander at the stock market might have seemed like a tedious task not too long ago, online trading platforms make it easy for everyday Joe’s to...
Jumio’s Automation Surpasses 1 Million Verifications Per Day as Company Celebrates 118% Increase in Revenue
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Security, Authentication Technology
Jumio, the leading provider of AI-powered end-to-end identity verification and eKYC solutions, today announced it is now processing more than one million daily identity verifications, the vast majority of which are completely automated. By consistently setting new records, Jumio has already cleared over 100 million different transactions so far in 2021 alone, with YTD revenue growing more than 118% year-over-year.
Banking Circle joins P27 initiative as a front-runner bank to support consolidation of currently fragmented Nordics payments ecosystem
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Transaction Banking, Payments, Banking
Global financial infrastructure provider, Banking Circle, has joined the P27 Nordic payment initiative as a front-runner bank in creating bulk-clearing for the Danish Krone, underlining its commitment to building a global payments infrastructure. P27 has been acknowledged as a vital initiative to address the disparate clearing systems currently operating across the Nordic region. Banking Circle sees its membership of P27 as a crucial piece in...
Marqeta Partners with Swissquote to Enhance Digital Banking and Trading Offerings
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Banking
Marqeta, the global modern card issuing platform, today announced it is partnering with Swissquote, a leading provider of online financial services, to offer a new app-based card program that gives users control over a range of financial activities, including banking and investing, in a single digital space.
Tech R&D Firm Consult Red Pioneers Employee-Ownership
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Corporate, Non-Financials
Consult Red, the technology R&D firm, has today announced it is becoming an employee-owned company. Consult Red works with the likes of Liberty Global, Comcast and AT&T to develop cutting-edge in-home entertainment technology and other connected secure IoT products.
Paynearby on Surge in Cash Circulation Amidst Rise in Digital Payments
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Payments
According to RBI --- Cash in Circulation at a Decadal High even when Digital Payments have soared.
Google Cloud and PayPal Expand Relationship
- 5 years 1 month ago
- Payments
Google Cloud and PayPal today announced they are deepening their relationship to further accelerate PayPal’s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this expanded relationship, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal’s growth, helping the company process transactional data at a massive scale.
Cytora Strengthens Senior Team as Karen Green Joins Advisory Board
- 5 years 1 month ago
- People Moves
Today Cytora announces that Karen Green has joined the company’s advisory board, where she will play a key role in driving Cytora’s growth as part of its mission to digitise commercial insurance risk.
