Moniepoint Empowers Nigeria’s Underbanked Businesses with Financial Services Enabled by Google Cloud
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Digital banking
Google Cloud announced today a new collaboration with Moniepoint, an Africa-focused business banking platform that provides financial services to Nigeria's underbanked businesses residing in remote areas and communities. The collaboration makes financial services accessible at scale to millions of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by bridging the banking gap in suburban locations.
African Fintech Yellow Raises $14 Million
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Fundraising News
Yellow, an asset financier for solar energy and digital devices in Africa has raised $14 million series B funding in a round led by Convergence Partners with participation from the Energy Entrepreneurs Growth Fund, managed by Triple Jump, in addition to follow-on investment from Platform Investment Partners.
ClearScore Launches in New Zealand
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Personal Finance
The ClearScore Group today announced that it has launched in New Zealand, providing consumers with a website and app to check their credit score and report for free. Founded in the UK in 2015, ClearScore has grown to 19m users worldwide, expanding to South Africa in 2017, Australia in 2020 and subsequently Canada in 2022. ClearScore is now one of the world’s leading fintech groups and one of the main ways that people access their credit report...
SumUp Celebrates Local Heroes with New Merchant-focused Campaign
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Global fintech SumUp has unveiled its latest UK campaign, with a merchant-centric push that champions the businesses, entrepreneurs and SMEs that power the country, dubbed ‘Local Heroes’.
Revolut and Qover's Superior Protection Allows Users to Cancel Trips and Events for Any Reason
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Digital banking
Qover, the insurtech that is transforming the insurance industry with its orchestration technology, has announced a second partnership with Revolut, the global financial super app with more than 30 million retail customers worldwide, to provide embedded insurance for its new trip and event cancellation cover.
Freedom Finance Launches Refreshed Proposition Amid Vibrant Second Charge Market
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Lending
Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s largest second charge distributors, is delighted to launch a refreshed proposition to support brokers through its Freedom 4 Intermediaries division. Freedom 4 Intermediaries is a specialist second-charge mortgage broker which helps intermediaries find the right borrowing solution for their clients whilst delivering market-leading customer service.
Robo.cash Raps into Asian Fintech Boom
- 2 years 9 months ago
- FinTech StartUps
Robo.cash sees strong potential for the Asian fintech market, which is already setting certain trends. The parent holding of the platform plans to focus on digital banking direction. At the Finfellas P2P conference in Riga, the investment platform Robo.cash presented the prospects for the Asian fintech market, thereby revealing plans of its parent company Robocash Group.
FOMO Pay Implements Moody’s Analytics End-to-End KYC/AML Risk Monitoring Solutions for its Secure Digital Payment and Digital Banking Services
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Digital banking
FOMO Pay, the Singapore-headquartered major payment institution, announced its implementation of Moody's Analytics KYC solution to monitor risk and secure compliance of its digital payments and digital banking services. This implementation harnesses Moody's Analytics prominent expertise in risk management to enhance FOMO Pay's compliance capabilities and elevate its clients' onboarding experiences.
FinTech Firm Encompass Appoints Cheri Burns as PR & Corporate Communications Director
- 2 years 9 months ago
- People Moves
Encompass Corporation, the leading provider of dynamic Know Your Customer (KYC) process automation, has appointed industry veteran Cheri Burns as PR & Corporate Communications Director to oversee media relations. Burns will be responsible for the development and execution of Encompass’ global PR and communications strategy, including overseeing analyst and influencer relations with leading trade bodies and industry figures.
OKX Wallet Announces Partnership with Omega Network and cBridge
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Trading Systems
OKX, the second-largest crypto platform by trading volume and a leading Web3 technology company, has issued updates for the day of June 17, 2023. OKX Wallet Announces Partnership with Omega Network, a Decentralized Social Platform and Crypto Mining App
NayaOne is Awarded the DSIT Tender to Deliver the UK’s Digital Identity Sandbox
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Digital Identity
The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is responsible for developing the policy and legislation to enable the widespread working to enable the use of reusable, interoperable digital identity solutions in the UK economy where consumers choose to use them. This includes the delivery of the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework, a set of rules and standards for what a ‘good’ digital identity looks like, which will be...
Jordan Ahli Bank Introduces Qawn, Jordan's Premier Social Payment App
- 2 years 9 months ago
- Payments
Jordan Ahli Bank proudly announces the launch of Qawn, Jordan's first-of-its-kind social payment app, revolutionizing the way users send and receive money through built-in chat capabilities. Now available for download on Android and iPhone devices, Qawn caters to both individual users and merchants, offering a wide range of innovative financial services.
Citi TTS Selects Pismo to Enrich Global Demand Deposit Account Solutions
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) and Pismo, the next-gen banking and payments software company, jointly announced their relationship in which Citi will use Pismo’s technology platform to help strengthen Citi’s corporate demand deposit accounts (DDA), to clients worldwide.
Spanish Banks Ahead of Global Trend for Rationalising Portals
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Banking
Digital business and IT services leader NTT DATA recently announced new global research into corporate banking, which has highlighted that increasing corporate demand for an omnichannel banking experience continues to grow, and so it is vital to rationalise the new and emerging technologies used to create that experience in order to keep banking inclusive.
Diamond Trust Bank Goes Live with Profile Software’s Treasury Management System
- 2 years 10 months ago
- Treasury
Profile, a leading financial solutions provider, has implemented its treasury management system Acumen.plus at Diamond Trust Bank. The fully STP, real-time cloud-native platform that delivers advanced UX and automation to the modern Treasurer, offers new functionalities covering Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
