TerraPay, a global payments infrastructure company, has partnered with Safaricom, a financial services, IT and telecommunications provider based in Kenya. TerraPay Group company Mobex (Kenya), a remittance service provider, will enable over 30 million M-PESA mobile wallet owners in Kenya to send real-time payments through TerraPay’s interoperable network to all wallets in Bangladesh and Pakistan,
FNZ, the global wealth management platform, has launched FNZ Yield Plus Notes to offer professional investors such as corporates, pension funds, banks, insurers, asset managers and other institutional investors a low-risk cash alternative and strengthens its global proposition. The FNZ Yield Plus bond offers investors a higher yield than an equivalent rated government bond of
American Express has announced that Kuwait-based low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways now accepts American Express card payments. The partnership will provide American Express cardholders with access to Airways’ growing travel destinations, with best-value flights and services. It will also provide extra convenience for travelers, allowing cardholders to easily book their flights. “We are thrilled to be working
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
FundingShield, a cloud-based company providing FinTech solutions for risk management, compliance, and fraud prevention, has partnered with Mastercard to leverage an open banking platform run by Finicity, a Mastercard company provide. “FundingShield has over 95% coverage of licensed service providers in the real estate, mortgage, closing and settlement space in our live repository. This partnership
Calastone, the world’s largest fund exchange network, today announced a partnership with Schroder to explore the potential of a tokenized investment vehicle for open companies (SCV). This partnership follows Calastone’s multi-year investment in distributed ledger technology (DLT) and cryptography, with the ultimate goal of creating and distributing tokenized investment vehicles through infrastructure. Calastone’s DLT marketplace.
UK-based Mypinpad, a secure mobile trading software solutions company, has raised $13 million in a round led by Crossfin Holdings. This investment will accelerate the expansion of the SaaS offering and open the door to relationships with other Crossfin investment firms. Currently operating in 20 markets, Mypinpad offers B2B SaaS solutions for making secure payments
After receiving respective approval certificates from EPC1, CaixaBank and Iberpay announced that their respective payment technology platforms are ready to launch, from June 22, First SEPA Payment Request in Europe. At the same time, CaixaBank, which has become the first bank in Europe to receive a Payment Claims approval certificate from the EPC, is about
Citi Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) and Pismo, the next-gen banking and payments software company, jointly announced their relationship in which Citi will use Pismo’s technology platform to help strengthen Citi’s corporate demand deposit accounts (DDA), to clients worldwide. Citi TTS continues to migrate its solutions, services, and infrastructure to create “always on” capabilities aimed
Cvent Holding Corp., an industry-leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider, announced the completion of its acquisition by an affiliate of private equity funds managed by Blackstone for $8.50 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $4.6 billion. The transaction, previously announced on 14 March 2023, includes a substantial minority investment
