emerchantpay, a leading global payment service provider, now provides local payments acceptance for cross-border merchants and partners in eight Latin America countries. The addition enables cross-border merchants and partners to accept popular local payment methods and domestic and international card schemes in the region. By leveraging this solution, international merchants and partners can expand into […]
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today launched new Temenos Banking Services designed specifically to meet the unique requirements of challenger banks. These services can be deployed rapidly on the Temenos Banking Cloud, accelerating challengers’ time-to-market with innovative products and services and helping them scale fast and at a fraction of traditional implementation costs. […]
Smarter.ai, creators of the world’s first AI marketplace to democratize artificial intelligence and help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) compete with Big Tech, announces its pre- seed raise, led by Fuel Ventures and Hambro Perks. This comes at a time when Big Tech monopolies face growing regulatory and public scrutiny, while the pandemic has sped up […]
Ecospend, the UK’s leading Open Banking technology provider, is proud to announce that January 2022 was a record month for the number of payments transacted through it’s Open Banking ‘Pay-by-Bank’ payment solution. In January Ecospend saw over £1.5bn of payments transacted through its Pay-by-Bank service across its client portfolio. The payment solution was used by […]
, the global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI), today revealed the European findings from the landmark first ever Data in Context study. The independent report is based on interviews with 325 IT and data decision-makers across Financial Services, Insurance and the Public Sector in the UK, France, Netherlands and Spain. […]
Barclays today announced that Rainmaking, a leading corporate venture builder, has been chosen as an innovation partner. With the support of Rainmaking, Barclays will launch a new suite of initiatives targeted at fintech founders across the globe, from early-stage to scale-up and beyond, to help grow and develop their companies. The first to launch is […]
Saporo has announced a $2.7m pre-seed round co-led by Session VC and Lightbird Ventures to make it easier for businesses of any size to increase their cyber resistance. Saporo’s technology enables any organisation to model and measure its resistance to anticipate attacks and make better-informed decisions about managing its risk without the need to think […]
During the pandemic, banks underwent a rapid digital adoption process, with 89% accelerating their implementation of technology by five years. According to research by SAS, the leader in analytics, a mixture of UK challenger and traditional banks were surveyed about how their IT infrastructure, processes and priorities have changed during the pandemic. With 93% accelerating […]
Scribe Security, a provider of a SaaS platform for securing software across various supply chains, raised more than $7m in a seed round led by Elron Ventures and joined by Tal Ventures, YYM Ventures, and others. The new funding will help Scribe bring its end-to-end solution to a market that is thirsty for innovation in […]
Transformational small business credit assessment platform and data provider, Uplinq Financial Technologies (Uplinq), has announced a new partnership with African technology and business solutions company, Nosmay, as part of its plans to help credit-lenders better serve the continent’s significant unbanked population. According to a recent report published by the World Bank, there are around 1.7 […]
