Mastercard announced the appointment of Adam Jones to lead its operations across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Central cluster in his new role as Country General Manager. Adam is responsible for Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Bahrain, and Iraq markets. “I am delighted to be part of Mastercard’s journey with this new role
Twitter is contemplating legal action against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk over his decision to terminate a USD 44 billion takeover deal. As per The Hill, the microblogging site has hired a large New York-based law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP as it prepares to sue Musk. Twitter will file its lawsuit
YuLife, the tech-driven insurance company on a mission to inspire people to live their best lives, announced that it has raised $120m in a Series C led by Dai-ichi Life Holdings Inc, a new strategic investor in the company. The funding round, which YuLife’s existing investors supported, takes YuLife’s total funding to $206m since the
Griffin, a Banking as a Service (BaaS) FinTech firm, announces it has raised $15.5 million in funding to launch the OS for embedded finance. Notion Capital led the round, with participation from existing investor EQT Ventures as well as FinTech angels, including William Hockey, co-founder of Plaid and founder and co-CEO of Column, Nilan Peiris,
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Mambu, a leading cloud banking platform, announced a global partnership with Visa to utilize Visa DPS, one of the largest processors of Visa debit transactions globally. The partnership will give Mambu customers a seamless connection to Visa DPS for end-to-end card issuing and processing. Both companies recognized the importance of interconnectivity to meet the growing demand
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Alerus Financial Corporation recently announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of MPB BHC, Inc., the bank holding company for Metro Phoenix Bank. Founded in 2007, Metro Phoenix Bank is the largest full-service community bank headquartered in Phoenix, with approximately $453 million in total assets, $280 million in total loans, and $402 million in total
The acceleration in digital transformation and digital adoption across all industries has raised customer expectations over the last few years. The way customers want to pay for or access services has changed for good, so insurers, just like all those in financial services, have to meet those expectations to stay competitive. Consumers were already getting
Tide, an SME-focused business financial platform that began setting up operations in India in 2020, announced that it has partnered with Transcorp International Limited, a 27-year-old Reserve Bank of India (RBI) regulated Authorised Dealer Category II and perpetual Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) license holder, to launch co-branded prepaid cards (Tide Expense Card) as an entry product. Tide
