Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winner: Yolt – Best Mobile Initiative
Yolt’s new mobile app: nudge techniques, open banking and smarter personal finance.
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PayTech Awards 2021 now open for entries!
Open to financial and payment institutions worldwide, technology and service providers, individuals and teams.
Crédit du Maroc in core banking and payments tech overhaul with Temenos
Crédit du Maroc will implement Temenos Transact and Temenos Payments.
Amazon expands pay-with-hand tech, pushes on with digital currency
Amazon hopes to contract out the pay-with-hand technology to third parties.
MoneyGram and Ripple end partnership deal two years early
The two firms wind down their deal amid regulatory issues.
Chase Pay merchant integration officially winds down this month
The Chase Pay button was used by retailers such as Walmart.
Santander picks Planixs tech to power liquidity management
Spanish multinational to deploy Planixs’ Realti system.
Minu raises $14m to provide on-demand salary payments in Mexico
Minu has raised $20 million since 2019, and plans an expansion in its home country.
Looking after the health of your ATM fleet in a futuristic way
Setting a new standard for banking self-service solution performance.
Fintech funding deals globally 1-7 March 2021
Featuring Klarna, Papaya Global, TaxBit, Beam Technologies, and Xendit.
FinTech Futures Industry Survey & Report 2021
A deep-dive into the trends defining 2021 and beyond, based on a comprehensive survey of the industry.
Payments Canada picks Interac for real-time infrastructure
Interac will use its e-Transfer service in the design, construction and maintenance of the system.
Why the BNPL sector is growing like crazy
There is plenty of room for experiments in BNPL, and many customer segments are yet to be addressed.
Budget 2021: What does it mean for UK fintech?
FinTech Futures scrolls through the UK chancellor’s new budget to pick out the fintech impact.
South African paytech Nomanini obtains debt funding
It raised a convertible loan from the MASSIF fund, which is run by FMO.
ImaliPay raises undisclosed amount in pre-seed funding
The undisclosed amount in pre-seed funding came from Australian venture capital firm TEN13.
Cameroon-based fintech Diool secures $3.5m funding
The funding round was led by Lundin Group and other existing investors.
Former international footballer Rio Ferdinand invests in Sokin
Ferdinand joins as a shareholder in the cross-border currency firm.
Pension builder Vantik signs card partnership with Mastercard
German fintech to issue new debit card for users in 2021.
US Federal Reserve’s payment system down for more than three hours
Both Fedwire and FedDACH went down this week, and remained so for a few hours.
What the Fintech? | S.2 Episode 5 | Rising to the top
Featuring Alexandra Boyle, head of strategic client group for Europe at OpenFin.
Subway standardises its payments over all 42,500 restaurants globally
Subway claims it is one of the first in North America to standardise payments on this scale.
Landmark pan-European payment system EPI calls on fintechs for build phase
European payment giants Worldline and Nets became shareholders in the EPI last year.
Moneycorp hires Barclays exec Tarashev as new CFO
His final role at the UK bank was as CFO of its private banking operations.
TransferWise rebrands as Wise to push platform capabilities
It’s dropping the first part of its name in a bid to underpin its expansion as a platform player.
Fintech funding deals globally 15-21 February 2021
Featuring Public, Webull, Blockchain, GoCardless, and Personetics.
Fintech funding round-up: SeedFi, Libeo, Ember and Finch Capital
A round-up of some of the recent investments in fintech, paytech and tax tech firms.
Netflix bags Uber’s product head Ebi Atawodi as payments director
Atawodi spent more than six years at Uber.
Manchester Credit Union signs payments deal with ClearBank
ClearBank and incuto give credit union access to Faster Payments.
FinTech Futures presents Dock – a virtual roundtable experience
Take part in Dock on 18-19 May to discuss the industry’s pertinent problems and find the solutions.
Dutch unicorn Mollie expands to UK for post-Brexit opportunities
Molllie says it wants to help merchants with European growth post-Brexit.
Banking Tech Awards 2020 Winners Supplement out now
Showcasing the most impactful and innovative projects, products, services and people in fintech in 2020.
The US market: are EU-based challengers coming to rustle up some feathers?
A deep dive and step-by-step comparison of US banks’ and EU challengers’ capabilities.
Fintech funding deals globally 8-14 February 2021
Featuring Fraction, BharatPe, Agibank, Monzo, and Coinsquare.
US Faster Payments Council report shows state of US payments
It provides a true illustration and understanding of how funds move on the networks.
Affirm’s IPO is a wake-up call for banks
Affirm is placing pressure squarely on banks and fintechs to challenge its BNPL market share.
Video: Top fintech stories this week – 12 February 2021
FinTech Futures’ weekly news round-up.
Kenyan paytech Popote raises funding from GreenHouse Capital
The undisclosed amount of funding will help the paytech scale.
Huawei to acquire Xunlian Zhipay for its payments licence
The deal is yet to be officially announced.
ICYMI funding round-up: Trade Ledger, Mesh, Safepay, Globacap & more
We round up some of the funding rounds that may have slipped you by.
