flynas, the airline of Saudi Arabia and a low-cost airline in the Middle East, has partnered with Tabby, a financial services and shopping app based on MENA, to provide travelers with payment solutions flexible math. This partnership comes at a favorable time for travelers, especially with the increasing demand for air travel around the world.
Banco Santander, BBVA and CaixaBank have teamed up to combat financial fraud, one of the biggest challenges in banking. Banks are working on tools to exchange vital information and data to help prevent financial crime. They founded FrauDfense, a company that will bring together banks’ anti-fraud initiatives. FrauDfense has been presented to the competent regulatory
Hub71, a global technology ecosystem in Abu Dhabi, and Wio Bank PJSC have announced a strategic partnership to transform the banking experience for startup founders in the capital. Partnership to improve bank account processes for SMEs; Wio becomes Hub71’s official banking partner, enabling startup founders to benefit from commercialization opportunities and professional mentoring to drive
Unlimit, a global FinTech company, has announced a partnership with inDrive, the growing online car sharing service in the United States. Under the partnership, inDrive will leverage Unlimit’s proprietary payments infrastructure to continue its global expansion with local payment solutions in new markets, including local currency payment processing and through secure payment methods. Unlimited provides
Canadian FinTech Nuvei and Plaid have extended their global partnership to support businesses by accepting bank-based payments for multiple use cases, including recurring payments and payouts, and to serve additional verticals within the e-commerce landscape. Nuvei and Plaid plan to scale their partnership globally before the end of the year. Nuvei’s global reach, including local acquiring in 47 markets,
Temenos announced that Convera, the largest non-bank global B2B payments provider, has selected Temenos Payments Hub running in the Temenos Cloud to modernize its payments infrastructure. The move to Temenos Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) will help Convera to drive efficiency in payment processing from inbound funding to outbound disbursements and massively scale with the aim to double
FIS, a global financial services technology company, has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell a majority stake in its Worldpay Merchant Solutions business to private equity funds managed by GTCR in a transaction that valued Worldpay at $18.5 billion. The agreement will allow for more centralized management and simplified operations for
Marqueta, a global card issuance platform, has announced an expansion into Brazil. The company cooperates with Latin American banking platform Fitbank and certifies the network with Visa As part of Marqeta’s partnership with Fitbank, the company will be a Marqeta customer, use it as a payment processor, and will act as a BIN sponsor for
Citi has announced the launch of a new platform, CitiDirect® Commercial Banking, specifically to address the needs of Citi Commercial Bank (CCB) clients. This is part of Citi’s significant strategic investment plan to meet the growing global needs of these clients by delivering a single-entry point digital platform. CitiDirect® Commercial Banking brings together Citi’s global
Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm specializing in partnerships with technology companies, today announced the acquisition of Macrobond, a leading financial data and technology innovation company, from Nordic Capital, one of Europe’s leading private equity investors. Macrobond founder Tomas Liljeborg will continue as chief executive officer and remain an important shareholder of the company.
Chapa, a payment solutions provider in Ethiopia, has announced a partnership with Telegram to enable merchants using Telegram to seamlessly accept payments from customers, including financial and digital payments. digital in Ethiopia. Chapa’s integration with Telegram’s bot ecosystem allows merchants to accept payments without requiring customers to leave the app. Whether it’s mobile money, bank
TransUnion and NatWest Group have expanded their existing partnership to introduce Know Your Credit – a retail banking credit reporting service to all eligible UK consumers. The new service builds on the bank’s existing engine, which has seen over five million NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland customers access their TransUnion credit scores through the
