Video: fintech news weekly round-up – 11 June 2019
This week, news about JP Morgan’s Chase, Visa, and more!
PayTech
Transforming the loan experience
Simple and flexible digital platforms could be the key to improved customer repayment rates.
Paysend secures $4.2m crowdfunding for global expansion
The round hit its target in less than 72 hours.
Banking Technology June 2019 issue out now
Beyond human. Dreaming of a fintech tomorrow.
Top fintech stories this week – 7 June 2019
The FCA introduces new rules for P2P platforms, while Tink secures investment from PayPal, and more!
Yoyo and Mastercard’s Pay by Bank team up
Bringing “an omnichannel payment and loyalty experience that is unrivalled in the market”.
Prepaid payments firm InComm acquires Hallmark Business Connections
Hallmark Business Connections provides employee incentive programmes.
Money20/20 Europe 2019 round-up
Innovation, concerns and cynicism.
Ask the expert: your questions on growing the business answered
How do I launch my company into new markets?
Money20/20 Europe 2019 – Day 2, a fragmented consumer-centric world
Everybody wants customer data, but that’s not always customer-centric.
ACI invests in Mindgate to drive real-time payments growth
The paytech is India’s market leader in processing UPI transactions.
Money20/20 Europe 2019 – Day 1, innovation station
The quicker we are to innovate and implement new features and tech, the better.
Isbank partners Yandex.Checkout to support trade between Turkey and Russia
Turkish bank will reach more than 150 million extra clients.
Top fintech stories this week – 31 May 2019
The first Amadeus event on payments, a new Indonesian payment standard, and more!
Indonesia launches QR code standards
To facilitate payments across the poorer businesses in the country.
White paper: How to drive business impact with payments
Download this free white paper to learn about how payments can improve your business.
Cointree and Gobbill partnership offer Aussies crypto bill-paying service
Users can “pay any bill with any coin”.
Step and Kard target teen market for banking
Both banking apps have launched their waiting lists.
Amadeus Future of Payments – payments integration in the travel industry
Round-up of the first Amadeus customer event in Madrid.
Global Payments and TSYS agree mega-merger
The third major payments industry deal so far this year.
Open Payments targets Nordic and European markets with €1.2m seed round
Offers access to European banks via one API.
Teen banking fintech Pixpay raises €3.1m launch funding
The Paris-based start-up was founded four months ago.
Zero closes $20m Series A to serve 200,000-strong waitlist
Offers a combination of debit and credit card.
Top fintech stories this week – 24 May 2019
TransferWise just became even bigger, Nuvei Bidco acquires SafeCharge, and more!
Kyriba is first treasury platform to offer corporates RTP through JP Morgan
Corporate clients of both firms can use the service.
Thailand’s KBank picks Instarem to power cross-border payments
Singapore-based Instarem will provide digital money transfers to select markets.
Rise up women – you can do it, you really can!
Be bolder, take risks, network, and challenge unconscious bias!
Trustly and Collector Bank team for instant payments to Nordic merchants
The partnership seeks to take advantage of the popularity of online bank payments in the region.
Modulr completes scale-up investment round of £14m
Taking the total amount raised by Modulr to £24 million.
Nuvei Bidco acquires paytech SafeCharge for $889m
SafeCharge board unanimously recommends the deal.
Card issuing platform Marqeta goes to Series E with $260m
This puts the company’s valuation at nearly $2 billion.
TransferWise doubles its valuation to $3.5bn
International payments firm raised $292 million in secondary funding.
Instalment payment option added to lastminute.com via Divido
This provides instant access to credit by connecting shoppers to multiple lenders at the moment of purchase.
Introducing: ask the expert – your questions on growing the business answered
How to secure a meeting with a prospect, the difference between demand and lead generation, and more.
Cryptomathic acquires Aconite Tech for EMV infrastructure prowess
The two firms say they have complementary and similar products.
European banks sign up to gpi trial on TIPS
Designed to smoothen out real-time payments in Europe.
TransferMate lands major deal with WellsFargo
The financial details haven’t been disclosed.
Facebook eyes payments market with new Swiss fintech
Social network has registered the company in Geneva.
Money transfer app Pangea looking to offer checking accounts
More firms are looking to jump into the challenger bank world.
White paper: Shapeshifting – a look at the evolving landscape of cross-border payments
Discussing consumerism, PSD2, managing risk and the power of digital ecosystem.
