Paysafe to list via Bill Foley-backed Spac at $9bn valuation
Blackstone and CVC acquired Paysafe back in 2017 for £3 billion.
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E-book: Migration to cloud – your guide to delivering an intuitive customer experience
Learn how to transform the entire organisation with the migration to the cloud.
Revolut launches acquiring service for merchant customers
Revolut undercuts Stripe by 0.1%.
Web Summit 2020: A fintech summary
Stripe is looking at products around digital identity.
Lloyds is world’s first bank live on Swift gpi instant
The payments network expects to roll out adoption across the globe.
TransferWise nabs Australian banking licence from APRA
The restricted licence gives TransferWise access to the country’s real-time payments system.
Principles for a global central bank digital currency and a single global payment system
The new global payment system should replace all current payment and settlement arrangements.
Stripe chases $100bn valuation with no sign of IPO
Stripe could see its valuation quadruple in just two years.
ECB issues Big Tech warning as it promises digital euro
European suppliers are essential in the building of technology on which a digital euro will operate.
Central Bank of Iceland deploys new RTGS with SIA
The new system can support 5 million payments per day.
London payments firm SumUp buys digital PoS fintech Goodtill
SumUp and Goodtill have worked together “for many years as partners”.
South African BaaS provider Ukheshe to acquire local fintech Oltio
Oltio is a smaller South African firm which hosts QR code payments for Mastercard.
Square and Tencent lead €93m Satispay funding round
The Italian paytech firm has recorded “significant growth” in 2020
Indian payments fintech Cashfree lands Apis-led $35m Series B
Cashfree counts more than 50,000 businesses as customers.
On-demand payment innovation at the heart of digital “new normal”
The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered industry changes in rapid time.
TransferGo secures £4m from Silicon Valley Bank
The pre-Series C investment funds will be used to develop and expand its RTP platform.
Google Pay unveils integrated banking challenger Plex
Plex will sit in the wider, revamped Google Pay app.
European Central Bank taps SIA and Colt to connect market infrastructure
SIA and Colt will help the ECB connect through the ESMIG single access interface.
UK payments provider Modulr lands £9m investment from PayPal
PayPal thinks Modulr is “well-positioned to be an enabler”.
How real are real-time payments?
Incumbents and fintechs face the same challenges when scaling real-time payments.
Santander to pay €100m for Wirecard’s core European business
The deal means the bank can expand its payment solution across Europe, says Santander’s CEO.
Nexi’s acquisition of Nets creates Europe’s largest payments firm by volume
Nexi is “uniquely positioned to catch further M&A opportunities”, says CFO.
Mastercard to help Canada build its new real-time payments rails
RTR marks a big step in modernising Canada’s payments system.
Banking Technology November 2020 issue out now
Without limits: The Barclays accelerator races ahead
Fintech execs race towards workplace diversity
Divido’s Christer Holloman launches Fintech Finishers to raise D&I awareness.
Grab leads $100m investment in Indonesian e-wallet LinkAja
Singaporean fintech begins investment project in Indonesia.
UK government signs London fintech Judopay for digital payments
“Everything from tax payments to donations to charities” come under the deal.
ING subsidiary Payvision accused of pushing €131.2m in fraudulent payments
ING acknowledges the claim, but cannot comment further at this time.
WhatsApp Pay finally gets green light from Indian regulators
The launch has been delayed for years since its beta testing in 2018.
Three UK fintechs raise over $100m in funding this month
Starling, Curve and GoCardless are raising rounds in excess of $100m.
Is your back-office ready for real-time payments?
Baldwin relays his thoughts on the firm’s award-winning Concourse Financial Software suite.
UK’s PayPoint to make double acquisition worth £70m
PayPoint currently boasts a 9,000-customer strong card payment estate.
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With remote working, productivity may be up. But what about creativity and serendipity?
Worldline completes $8.6bn acquisition of Ingenico
Worldline claims to have created the world’s fourth-largest payments firm.
Typing authentication – the future of compliance
Cristian Tamas, TypingDNA’s co-founder and CMO, explains why he thinks the firm landed a PayTech Award.
What the Fintech? Episode 15 | Authentication station
What typing authentication is all about.
Breaking down borders for marketplace payments
CEO of Banking Circle explains rationale behind award-winning Banking Circle Marketplaces solution.
JP Morgan backs UK payments fintech Icon Solutions
“Banks are having to find ways of cutting costs,” says Icon.
FIS replaces legacy processing tech at Brazil’s Afinz
Afinz switches out legacy in-house tech for FIS processing platform.
