Liberis raises £32m to boost growth plans
London-based fintech Liberis has raised £32m to help fund the growth of the small business finance provider and expansion in the US…
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Tokopedia lines up $1.5bn funding from Alibaba and Softbank
Tokopedia, the Indonesian ecommerce marketplace, is understood to be in the final stages of closing a funding round worth as much as…
Aussie neobanks challenge country’s big four banks
Australian neobanks Xinja, Judo Bank and 86 400 are attracting millions of dollars in savings from Australian banking customers following the launches…
BMO to acquire Clearpool
BMO Financial Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clearpool Group, a New York-based provider of electronic trading solutions and…
Barclays signs tech partnership with invoice insurance firm Nimbla
UK multinational bank Barclays has announced a new partnership with invoice insurance start-up Nimbla. Nimbla will be offered to one million Barlcays…
Alipay partner Tranglo integrates Ripple’s cross-border payments
Alipay partner Tranglo, a Malaysian cross-border payments solution, has announced a collaboration with Ripple for the latter’s remittance infrastructure ‘RippleNet’. Tranglo began…
BNP Paribas extends open banking partnership with Tink
French banking group BNP Paribas has signed a strategic partnership with open banking platform Tink, making the latter the bank’s preferred partner…
What the ‘decade of the data breach’ can teach us
We have witnessed the explosion of identity theft over the past decade. Thanks to a steady flow of high-profile data breaches, names,…
BIS: No Evidence of Mass Transition From CBDC Research to Pilots and Experiments
A new survey from the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) revealed that only 10% of central banks are likely to issue a…
Understanding the Architecture and Setup of VPS Hosting
VPS or Virtual Private Server hosting works on the concept of virtualization. VPS hosting is a kind of server that hosts several…
The Ultimate Guide of VoIP Solutions for Call Centers
Call center services need to be efficient and effortless when it comes to catering to the need of the customer. Today the…
Digital broker Stake releases UK beta app ahead of February launch
Stake, the Australian digital brokerage app offering foreign access to the US stock market, has launched its beta app in the UK.…
WorldRemit ties up cross-border remittance partnership with Alipay
UK-based remittance firm WorldRemit has signed a global partnership with Chinese payments giant Alipay. WorldRemit users can now send remittances to Alipay…
Minnesota’s Sentry Bank selects CSI NuPoint
Minnesota-based Sentry Bank has selected Computer Services Inc (CSI) and its NuPoint core processing solution, as well as a hatful of online…
Ether Price Drop Slashed Valuation of Crypto Valley’s Top 50 Firms by 40%
The combined valuation of the top 50 blockchain-related firms in the Swiss canton of Zug — known as “Crypto Valley” within the…
Nigerian paytech Flutterwave raises $35m, partners with Worldpay
Flutterwave, the San Francisco and Lagos-based fintech providing gateway payments for the likes of Uber, Booking.com and Jumia, has raised $35 million…
Monzo bank accused of “freezing accounts for no apparent reason”
In the past few months, complaints from previously happy Monzo customers appear to have grown alarmingly, at a time when the bank…
Vodafone leaves Facebook’s Libra to focus on M-Pesa
Vodafone, one of the UK’s major telecommunications providers, has become the eighth company to drop out of Facebook’s Libra Association, Coin Desk…
Amazon set to turn hands into cards with Visa
Amazon is building checkout tills which could see shoppers paying for purchases with their hands. By linking customers’ credit card details with…
The Unstoppable Trajectory: Stablecoins Are Evolving Traditional Finances
Stablecoins may represent crypto’s best chance of achieving mainstream success and recognition from the traditional financial systems. Just recently, the president of…