Smart money app Plum has secured £1m from investors in the first eight hours of its crowdfund, achieving its initial target. So far, more than 3700 investors from the UK, Greece, Cyprus, France, Bulgaria, Belgium, and Spain have contributed money. Five more days remain for new investments in the crowdfunding project, and additional share allocation is now
Compass, the Mediobanca Group’s consumer credit arm, has completed two deals in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) segment. The rationale for the deals is to accelerate the bank’s growth in the deferred payment business using digital channels, which it has entered successfully with the launch of its PagoLight product. With the two deals, Compass has acquired: •
TripActions, the all-in-one travel, corporate card, and expense management company, today announced its Series G financing at a post-money valuation of $9.2 billion. The raise, a combination of $154 million in equity from new and existing financial investors as well as a $150 million structured capital transaction led by Coatue, marks the third financing round
JPMorgan Chase and Visa are to establish connectivity between their global private blockchain networks, Liink and B2B Connect. As part of the partnership, Visa B2B Connect will use Validation, a new tool from Liink, to authenticate new accounts for cross-border payments and approve accounts when new users join. Validation allows organizations to securely validate account information before
CUBE Global (“CUBE”), a global leader in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (“ARI”), today announced a strategic growth investment from Bregal Milestone (“Milestone”), a leading technology growth capital firm with c. €1.2 billion of capital raised dedicated to investments in high-growth, market-defining technology companies. This investment marks the first institutional equity investment for CUBE. Serving some of
Mamo, a homegrown UAE-based FinTech and financial services platform for SMEs, has been granted regulatory approval to operate from Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the leading global financial center in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region. The license has been granted by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the independent regulator of
Today at Sibos 2022 in Amsterdam, Finastra announced a strategic collaboration to integrate its Fusion Trade Innovation software with Contour, the global digital trade finance network, providing banks and corporates with a streamlined end-to-end back-office workflow. Users may access their data through either platform, providing banks with increased efficiency and faster turnaround times when processing Letter of Credit
HSBC has launched HSBC Trade Solutions (HTS) to customers in its two largest markets – the UK and Hong Kong. Whilst making trade simpler, faster, and safer for customers through integrated digital journeys, HTS will power commerce that is rapidly evolving across different platforms and ecosystems. Developed in partnership with CGI, the new platform allows customers
BNY Mellon, in collaboration with Aite-Novarica Group, today released a study examining commercial payment trends, finding that businesses are embracing a range of emerging digital tools such as real-time payments (RTP) and digital wallets. Significant geographical disparities in channel usage were also discovered by the survey. With the upcoming implementation of the FedNow service and
PwC brought in $50.3 billion in global revenue for the year ending June 30, up 13.4% in local currency terms and 11.4% in U.S. dollars, the firm said on Oct. 4. Last year PwC achieved revenue of $45.3 billion globally. “In a year of rapid change and numerous challenges globally, our talented people used their
MoneyGram International, Inc., a global leader in the evolution of digital P2P payments, and Jingle Pay, a financial super-app based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), today announced a partnership to enable convenient and fast global money transfers through the Jingle Pay app. Consumers in the UAE can use the Jingle Pay app – powered
Genesis Global, the low-code application development platform purpose-built for financial markets organizations, today announced that the Genesis platform will provide new trade automation and client portal system for Itaú Securities. The Genesis solution will automate pre-trade workflows, minimizing data checks, trade input, order routing, and other administration needed of Ita Securities traders, and combine transaction
