HSBC and B2B FinTech Tradeshift have formed a new joint venture focused on developing integrated financial solutions and financial services applications. As part of the deal, HSBC will invest $35 million in Tradeshift in two phases and join its board of directors. The deal is part of a funding round that is expected to raise
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
Cashflows, the platform that allows merchants to accept payments, has launched a new cloud-based direct (point of sale) payment solution. The platform is designed for merchants, independent sales organizations (ISOs) and independent software vendors (ISVs) who want to provide merchants in all industries with a fast and reliable direct payment solution. As part of the
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.
