Apex Group Ltd., a global financial services provider, today announced its proposal to acquire Efficient Group (Pty) Ltd. Efficient is the parent company of Boutique Collective Investments (RF) (Pty) Ltd (“BCI”) and Boutique Investment Partners (Pty) Ltd (“BIP”) and upon completion of the acquisition, Efficient Group (Pty) Ltd will rename the Apex Corporation banner. The
Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, today announced that OpenAI has chosen Stripe to power payments as it prepares to commercialize innovative AI technologies. it’s ChatGPT and DALL E revolution. Stripe is also integrating OpenAI’s new natural language technology, GPT-4, into its products and services. “We’re excited to work with Stripe to monetize our
Innovation is essential to ensure payments keep pace with consumer demand and to enable merchants to find new ways to engage and serve customers. However, to ensure that innovative new payment methods are introduced and their benefits are realized by both consumers and businesses, payment decision-makers are reluctant to take the plunge and adopt new
Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payment technology company, today announced that it has acquired an e-money issuer and remittance license from the National Bank of Rwanda. This will allow the company to expand its operations in East Africa. With these new licenses, Flutterwave will be able to provide its 13.46 million people living and working in Rwanda
TruEra, a leading provider of AI quality management solutions for testing, interpreting, debugging, and monitoring machine learning (ML) models, today announced that it has been selected by PwC to integrate AI risk management in the UK and Ireland. Key elements of the collaboration include: • Using TruEra’s software to validate AI/ML models (e.g., analyzing robustness
Clara, the leading digital end-to-end enterprise spending management platform in Latin America, announced the approval of up to $90 million in funding from Accial Capital, a debt provider based in the United States. The US focuses on emerging markets and its fund launches in the US. partnered with Skandia FCP IMPACTO, an impact-focused debt fund
Building on their successful strategic partnership, Banque Misr has signed a long-term partnership agreement with Mastercard to provide the bank with the latest in digital payment technology to deliver products, services and solutions. New innovative solutions for customers, all segments and for digital support. advanced solutions have a competitive advantage. As part of this partnership,
Carrefour Italia and Nexi have announced a partnership to enable citizens to pay postal payment slips and PagoPA notifications at the cashiers of over 190 stores in Italy, including Carrefour Hypermarkets and Carrefour Supermarkets. Developed in collaboration with Poste Italiane, the service allows payment in any way. The solution, based on the Nexi technology platform,
With two consecutive quarters of negative growth, we are by definition in a recession. The next question is, will it be light or heavy? While signs are currently pointing to a mild recession and a “light landing,” which is the ideal outcome, the advertising industry has taken a hit. Regardless of what we’re going through,
In terms of innovation, consumer-to-business (C2B) and consumer-to-consumer (C2C) payment technologies are currently leading the way against business-to-business (B2B) alternatives. For example, PayPal payments can be made in real-time, while business-to-business payments can take days or even weeks. While protracted payments mostly occur when steps are taken to ensure the safety of all parties, many
Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payment and financial services technology solutions, today introduced a new fraud mitigation solution designed to simplify the way large enterprises manage multichannel risk management. Accessible through the global trading platform Carat, the modular solution provides traders with controls that can be customized to their risk appetite, as well
Weavr, the London-based startup that allows businesses to integrate banking and payments into their mobile apps or SaaS platforms, has acquired open banking B2B platform, Comma Payments. With Comma, Weavr claims to have become the first integrated finance provider to combine Banking as a Service (BaaS) and Open Banking in one integrated payments solution for
