FTT Payments Launches in London Alongside Three Additional Co-located events

• 1 year 11 months ago
• FinTech StartUps

VC Innovations, a leading marketing services agency with a global community of over 200,000 digital transformation leaders from across financial services, fintech, and a broad range of non-financial brands, has announced the launch of FTT Payments in London.  

R3 Appoints UK Finance Chairman Bob Wigley to Board of Directors

• 1 year 11 months ago
• People Moves

R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, has appointed Bob Wigley, to its board as a Non-Executive Director. 

DKK Partners Secures Initial Approval from the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority of Dubai

• 1 year 11 months ago
• Cryptocurrencies

DKK Partners FZE, based in the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), a subsidiary of DKK Partners, a leading FinTech company specializing in Emerging Markets (EM) and Foreign Exchange (FX) liquidity, has been granted Initial Approval by the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) to offer Virtual Asset Broker Dealer Services. DKK Partners FZE will continue to work towards acquiring a full Virtual Asset Service Provider Licence from VARA.

Ebury and Nium Expand Partnership to Power Cross-border Payments in Brazil

• 1 year 11 months ago
• Payments

Ebury, one of the world's largest fintech companies specializing in transactions for SMEs, today announced its partnership expansion with Nium, the leader in real-time global payments, to deliver a groundbreaking global remittance service in Brazil.

Payment Technology Provider Numeral Launches Swift Payments

• 1 year 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
• Financial

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

• 1 year 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.