Effective ways to improve and expand digital payment methods for businesses
Introducing digital payment methods and ensuring adoption can be a challenge many businesses find daunting.
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Fintech Talents 2022: Where are we with open finance?
Speakers at the Fintech Talents Festival sat down to unpack the current state of play with open finance.
Ireland is emerging as a global hub for payments
Ireland has become the EU/EMEA headquarters for many leading firms in the fintech and payments space.
Checkout.com lands major paytech deal with Sainsbury’s
Checkout.com says it will “simplify and modernise” payment infrastructure across Sainsbury’s business.
JP Morgan and Mastercard team up to launch Pay-by-Bank solution
The solution is currently in the pilot stage with a rollout expected sometime in 2023.
Travel BNPL fintech Fly Now Pay Later hires Georgios Gionis as CPO
AT FNPL, Gionis will be tasked with expanding the product offering at the firm, building out its R&D arm.
Spanish banking sector to explore use of digital euro
Financial institutions will analyse the technical, operational and business implications of a digital euro.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 11 November 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
ICYMI fintech funding round-up: Ping, Agent IQ, Atlar and more
A handy round-up of this week’s fintech funding news from around the world.
Video: DailyPay at Money20/20 USA – Boosting financial wellbeing with earned wage access
We chat with Jeanniey Walden, CMO at DailyPay, about the benefits of earned wage access.
iBanFirst taps Fenergo for client lifecycle management solution
iBanFirst says Fenergo’s tech will allow it to offer “faster and more effective” digital customer onboarding.
ACI Worldwide appoints interim CEO as Odilon Almeida departs
Thomas Warsop, former non-executive chair of ACI’s board of directors, has been named interim CEO.
Crypto infrastructure start-up Ramp raises $70m in Series B round
The Series B follows Ramp’s $52.7 million Series A round in December 2021.
SME financial services provider Finom buys cross-border paytech Kapaga
The merger will boost Finom’s UK and European expansion plans.
Mangopay names Ronen Benchetrit as new CTO
Mangopay’s CEO says Benchetrit’s appointment will be “game changing” for the company’s growth.
Report: The state of payment operations 2022
The challenges and upsides of implementing efficient, scalable, and secure payment operations processes.
Worldline to buy Banco Desio’s merchant acquiring activities for €100m
With the partnership, Worldline aims to leverage Banco Desio’s network to expand its presence in Italy.
French paytech start-up Fintecture lands €26m Series A funding
The new funding brings Fintecture’s total capital raised to date to €32 million.
Lendtech Ezra appoints Erwan Gelebart as new CEO
Gelebart has spent the past 14 years working for digital financial services firms across Africa and Asia.
Saudi Central Bank debuts new open banking framework
The framework includes legislation, regulatory guidelines and tech standards based on international best practices.
Dubai’s Pyypl lands $20m Series B as it eyes regional expansion
The round saw participation from new international investors and 10 existing investors.
EIPP and the mobile revolution in B2B payments
The next phase in the evolution of B2B payments will be dominated by mobile technologies.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 4 November 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Stripe lays off 14% of staff amid challenging economic climate
The cuts to its workforce will return Stripe to its February 2022 headcount of almost 7,000 people.
DBS and digitalisation: what the West can learn from the East
“Meaningful innovation is the true litmus test,” says DBS’ Shee Tse Koon.
RBI launches pilot for digital rupee wholesale CBDC
The use case of this pilot is the “settlement of secondary market transactions in government securities”, RBI says.
MoneyGram expands Coinme partnership, launches in-app crypto service
Users across nearly all US states can now trade and store BTC, ETH and LTC in the MoneyGram app.
Canada’s TouchBistro bags $110m in growth funding
TouchBistro offers a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system and payments solution for restaurants.
Blockchain.com partners Visa and Marqeta to launch crypto debit card
The card is available to US residents and will be rolled out to customers in additional countries starting in 2023.
Paytech Form3 lands €23m venture debt facility from Atempo Growth
The funding will enable Form3 to explore potential M&A opportunities and launch in new markets.
Swift appoints Max Mamondez as chief financial officer
Mamondez, who joins from the London Stock Exchange Group, will serve on Swift’s executive committee.
Raisin migrates its UK platform to ClearBank
ClearBank will offer Raisin customers access to faster payments and other services via its embedded banking platform.
Banking Technology Magazine November 2022 issue out now
Cover story: TAKING THE LEAD – Women are inspiring fintech teams.
InComm Payments buys Australian gift card provider TCN
The firm says the acquisition will boost its ability “to create personable gift card products that consumers seek”.
Is payroll technology the future of fintech?
Employees want the freedom to get paid anytime, anywhere, and payroll tech has stepped in to help.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 28 October 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
European Commission aims to speed up the rollout of instant payments across the EU
Proposal aims to “ensure that instant payments in euros are affordable, secure, and processed without hindrance”.
CloudPay secures $50m to support development of payroll offering
The firm boasts “high double-digit growth” year-on-year and is projecting revenue growth of around 40% for 2022.
Financial super-app Curve partners Salt Edge for open banking compliance
The partnership will enable the app’s 4m users across Europe to continue to make the most of open banking.
Mexican B2B paytech Yaydoo acquires Oyster Financial
The acquisition, for an undisclosed sum, will also see Oyster CEO Vilash Poovala become Yaydoo’s new CTO.
