Payment Technology Provider Numeral Launches Swift Payments

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Payments

Numeral, the payment technology provider, today announces the support of Swift payments, enabling companies and financial institutions to automate cross-border payments with their partner banks to more than 200 countries, in addition to local European SEPA as well as UK Bacs, FPS, and CHAPS payments, from a single platform.

Finastra and UNITAS Partner to Bring Leading Treasury Solution to Banks in South Korea

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Banking

Finastra has today announced UNITAS as a strategic partner for Finastra’s Kondor treasury solution in South Korea. The combination of Finastra’s best-of-breed trading system with UNITAS’s local expertise and deep experience in providing risk and compliance solutions to financial institutions will enable more banks in the country to digitally transform and grow their business.

Revolut Launches Robo-Advisor in EEA to Automate Investing

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Trading Systems

Revolut has launched Robo-Advisor service in the EEA, to automate investing tailored to customer needs The new product is advantageous for those who don't have the time to actively invest, or have limited or no trading experience

CLARA Analytics Secures Funding from Nationwide

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Fundraising News

CLARA Analytics, which offers a claims intelligence platform, has received an investment from Nationwide Ventures, the investment arm of Nationwide. CLARA has raised a total of $64 million, including its recently announced Series C.

Wefox Appoints Dominik Ulrich as Chief Risk Officer

• 1 year 2 days ago
• People Moves

wefox, the world’s leading insurtech has appointed Dominik Ulrich as Chief Risk Officer (CRO), with immediate effect. Prior to this role Mr. Ulrich was Head of Internal Audit at wefox.

Intuit Introduces QuickBooks Solopreneur, an Easy-to-Use Financial Tool Built for One-Person Businesses

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Financial

Buy Now, Pay Early: 97.4% of Klarna Black Friday Purchases Paid off on Time or Early

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Lending

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments provider and shopping assistant, has revealed UK consumers paid off 97.4% of Black Friday orders on time or early, an increase of 2% compared with last year. The data comes as Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey declared yesterday that the UK’s recession may already be over. Klarna’s Buy Now Pay Later products are always interest-free and, if paid on time, incur no fee.

Green Dot Announces BaaS Partnership with Dayforce

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Cloud

Green Dot Corporation, a leading digital bank and fintech providing seamless banking and payment services to consumers and businesses, announced a new partnership with Dayforce, Inc.. Through this partnership, Green Dot will serve as the U.S.

Western Union and Mercado Pago Alliance Extends to the United States and Canada

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Transaction Banking

Western Union and Mercado Pago today announced growth in their existing relationship, allowing United States and Canadian customers to send money from Western Union’s mobile app, website, or one of its retail locations to Mercado Pago wallet accounts in Mexico.

Tink Joins SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) Scheme to Help Reshape Payments Across the EU

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Payments

Market-leading payment services and data enrichment platform, Tink, has entered the official register to become one of the first participants of the European Payments Council’s newly launched SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) scheme.  SPAA aims to unlock the opportunities of open data access while ensuring that banks are sufficiently incentivized to invest in maintaining application programming interfaces (APIs) and (real-time) payments...

FICO UK Credit Card Market Report: December 2023

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Payments

The FICO UK Credit Card Market Report for December 2023 reflects the usual season trends in spending and payments. However, it also reflects the impact of continued high prices on card balances. This latest report shows the highest levels of both average spending and average balances since 2006 when FICO first analysed credit card use and payments.

Griffin Launches Foundations, an Early Access Programme for UK Companies to Embed Banking Products

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Banking

Griffin, the API-first UK bank and full-stack Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform, has announced that it is accepting applications for its early access programme, Foundations. This comes after a successful pilot programme for its first set of customers. Foundations are designed for companies in the UK who want to offer financial products to their customers and build directly on a full-stack BaaS provider.  

Zilch Launches Pay Over 3 Months Interest-free Regulated Product

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Lending

Zilch, the ad-subsidized payments network (ASPN), today announces the launch of a new credit payment product, allowing its customers to spread interest-free repayments for larger purchases over three months. The new ‘Pay over 3 months’ product will provide more flexibility to customers and drive up Zilch’s market-leading wallet share. 

KPMG UK and Blue J Expand Strategic Alliance to Introduce Generative AI Into Tax Tools

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence, Tax Authorities

KPMG UK and Blue J announced today that they will launch a new generative AI-powered product to answer challenging tax research questions in seconds. KPMG will have exclusive access to the tool, Ask Blue J, among the big four accountancy firms in the UK for the first three years.

Akurateco Earns Accreditation as a Google Pay Certified Payment Gateway

• 1 year 2 days ago
• Payments

Akurateco, an industry-leading provider of white-label payment software solutions based in Europe, proudly announces its recent certification as a participating processor for Google Pay. This significant milestone reaffirms Akurateco's unwavering commitment to revolutionizing payment solutions for businesses worldwide.