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Enabling business: How payments technology will boost the future of business
As the year has progressed, we’ve seen many of the predictions made at the beginning of 2023 begin to come to fruition.
Trends around open...
ekko forms board of advisers to deliver sustainable growth
Greentech ekko has formed a board of advisers to deliver sustainable growth.
The board features experts in climate change, technology and financial services, including Majda...
VerifyVASP becomes GLEIF validation agent to increase transparency in crypto
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has chosen VerifyVASP, a Singapore-based regtech, as a validation agent to increase transparency in crypto.
VerifyVASP can now...
TS Imagine adds to its team in the Asia Pacific
Trading technology provider TS Imagine has added Stephanie Cheung and An Hoong to its team in the Asia Pacific region.
Cheung joins as sales director....
Kiwi raises £80m to provide underbanked US Latinos with credit
Kiwi, a New York-headquartered credit provider to US Latinos, has closed a $75m credit facility and a $4.5m pre-series A funding round.
The fresh funding...
Bamboo Payment appoints new CEO to lead growth across LATAM
Bamboo Payment, a Uruguay-based fintech, has appointed Francisco León as its new chief executive officer.
León has been tasked with scaling the business to ensure...
Money20/20 announces finalists for climate conscious startups battle
Money20/20 has announced the finalists for its pitch battle, Europe’s Got Access, which will showcase the most innovative and eco-conscious climate fintech startups across...
Starling Bank founder Anne Boden steps down as CEO
Anne Boden, founder of London, UK-headquartered Starling Bank, is to step aside as chief executive officer on 30 June.
Boden will remain on the board...
The benefits of implementing a perpetual know your customer model
With the release of the Economic Crime Plan 2, and other measures from the UK government aiming to respond to the evolving financial crime...
Digital banking group Tyme raises US$77m to fuel expansion
Tyme, a Singapore-headquartered digital banking group, has secured US$77m in a pre-series C funding round.
The funds will be used to expand its operations in...
Austrade selects Encompass to promote global fintech collaboration
Austrade, the Australian government’s trade, investment and education promotion agency, has selected Encompass as its envoy to promote global fintech collaboration.
The Australian agency is...
Germany-based insurtech wefox raises $110m
Germany-based insurtech wefox has raised $110m to strengthen its insurance and distribution business and develop its technology platform.
The series D extension round includes a...
Muse Finance appoints chief operating officer to support growth
UK-based Muse Finance has appointed Julie Ashmore as its new chief operating officer.
Muse Finance provides a range of finance solutions to businesses, including invoice...
N26 adds three executives to its leadership team
Germany-based digital bank N26 has made three senior executive appointments.
Carine van der Heijden is the new vice president of brand marketing, Kertu-Liina Lehismae is...
UK fintech Frost announces a new broadband switching tool
Personal finance app Frost has added a broadband switching service to its automated provider switching tool, called Save Assist.
The UK-based fintech made the announcement...
Tuum names new chief executive officer
Tuum, an Estonia-based banking platform, has announced Myles Bertrand as its new chief executive officer.
In his new role, Bertrand will focus on expanding Tuum’s...
Apple introduces Tap to Pay on iPhone in Australia
Apple has introduced Tap to Pay for iPhone in Australia.
Tap to Pay enables businesses to accept all forms of contactless payments, including Apple Pay,...
Moolahgo enhances its FX offerings with ICE partnership
Moolahgo, a Singapore-based payments provider, has announced a partnership with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to use its consolidated feed, which aggregates cross-asset content from more...
AMLYZE raises $1m in a pre-seed round
Lithuania-based regtech AMLYZE has raised $1m in a pre-seed investment round, led by Practica Capital, with participation from FIRSTPICK.
The funding will be used to...
Zip announces £100m in funding and a $1.5b valuation
San Francisco-based procurement platform Zip has raised $100m in a series C funding round, giving it a $1.5b valuation.
The funding round was led by...
Hazeltree appoints new chief product officer
Hazeltree, a provider of treasury and liquidity management solutions, has appointed Jeremy Payne as chief product officer to expand its offerings to investment management...
Stratiphy launches investing app
UK-based investment platform Stratiphy has launched its app on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
The product had amassed a waiting list of 2,500...
M-KOPA raises $255m to improve access to credit in Africa
Kenya-based financing platform M-KOPA has raised $255m in debt and equity capital to fund its expansion across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Standard Bank led and arranged $200m...
UAE’s Ministry of Economy signs MoU with Presight
The UAE’s Ministry of Economy has signed a memorandum of understanding with Presight, a data analytics company, to drive foreign direct investments (FDI) into...
NCR appoints new chairman and two CEO-designates
NCR Corporation, a tech provider to banks, retailers and restaurants, has appointed SilverBox Capital co-founder Joseph Reece as chairman of its board of directors.
The...
RTGS.global appoints chief executive officer and new chair
RTGS.global has appointed Jarrad Hubble as its permanent chief executive officer and Marcus Treacher as its executive chair.
Hubble has been interim chief executive officer...
Tech Nation acquired by FF Group
Founders Forum Group (FFG), a global community that supports entrepreneurs, has acquired Tech Nation, a network that supports UK tech startups.
Early this year, Tech...
Swissquote chooses NetGuardians to fight financial crime
Digital bank Swissquote has chosen NetGuardians to enhance its fraud mitigation and comply with AML requirements.
NetGuardians will use its AI-based solutions to monitor all...
Petal raises $35m to improve access to credit
Lendtech Petal has raised $35m in funding and spun off its B2B-focused data infrastructure and analytics subsidiary, Prism Data.
Petal was created to help more...
WhatsApp launches in-app payments for Singapore businesses
WhatsApp has partnered with Stripe to allow businesses in Singapore to accept payments directly in its app.
The new feature is built on Stripe Connect,...
US fintech Slash raises $19m
Slash, a US fintech built for entrepreneurs, has raised $19m in its seed and series A funding rounds.
The rounds were led by NEA, with...
Microsoft launches Teams payments app for small businesses
Businesses in North America can now accept payments over Microsoft Teams.
The new payments app will allow small businesses in the US and Canada to...
Standard Chartered expands its partnership with Tazapay
Standard Chartered has expanded its partnership with Tazapay to improve cross-border payments for businesses.
The organisations have launched a platform that allows global marketplaces and...
Nomo Bank taps Paymentology to improve payments
Nomo Bank has teamed up with Paymentology to enhance its payments service.
Paymentology’s digital payments platform will speed up Nomo’s transaction processing, improve fraud monitoring...
GMEX launches greentech ZERO13
GMEX Group has launched a climate fintech, ZERO13, to create a cohesive carbon credit ecosystem.
Using AI and blockchain technology, ZERO13 will offer digital issuance,...
New index to track gender equality in US tech companies
A new index has been launched to track the performance of technology companies in the US that are making the most improvement in terms...
Fintech Diversity Scorecard launched to encourage progress
A new scorecard has been launched to enable fintechs and financial services firms to track diversity in their organisations and benchmark themselves against their...
Tarabut Gateway raises $32m to boost open banking in Saudi Arabia
Open banking fintech Tarabut Gateway has raised $32m in a series A funding round to increase its footprint in Saudi Arabia, attract top talent...
Goji appoints new operations director
Goji, the provider of investment platform technology, has named Clémence Chorlay as its new operations director.
In her new role, Chorlay will help to formulate...
Frost closes £1.87m funding round
Frost, a UK-based fintech, has raised £1.87m in a crowdfunded campaign via Seedrs.
The Manchester-headquartered fintech will use the funding to expand on its current...
LHV Bank secures UK banking licence
LHV Bank has secured a UK banking licence from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA).
The authorisation allows LHV Bank to accept customer deposits and transition...
Nigeria-based Nomba raises $30m for payments expansion
Nomba has raised $30m in a pre-series B funding round.
The funding will be used to support the growth of its payments offering for businesses...
Griffin has appointed Marina Gorey as its new chief people officer
Griffin has appointed Marina Gorey as its new chief people officer.
Her appointment is part UK-based Griffin’s strategy to scale its “open and transparent culture”...
Who entered the Europe FinTech Awards 2023?
All the submissions for FinTech Intel’s Europe FinTech Awards 2023 have been submitted and the independent panel of judges are now busy looking through...
InComm Payments opens new tech hub in Brazil
InComm Payments, a US-headquartered payments platform provider, has launched an IT hub in Brazil dedicated to developing payments solutions.
The new hub, InComm Payments Brazil...
SEON hires new chief revenue officer
SEON, a fraud protection software provider, has hired Matt DeLauro as its new chief revenue officer.
DeLauro will work out of SEON’s US hub in...
Credora raises $6m in strategic funding
Credora, a US-based lending infrastructure provider, has raised $6m in a strategic funding round.
The funding will be used to further build institutional rails for...
Curacel appoints new advisory board member to support its growth
Curacel, an insurance infrastructure provider based in Africa, has appointed Adam Jones to its advisory board to support its growth across the continent and...
ClearBank appoints chief product officer
ClearBank has appointed Spiros Theodossiou as its new chief product officer.
Spiros will lead the UK-based business bank and embedded banking provider’s global product strategy,...
Tred calls out big banks ahead of Earth Day
Tred, a green digital bank, has taken aim at the big banks for their fossil fuel investments ahead of Earth Day.
This week, the UK-based...
