Category : Fintech News

Refinitiv Partners With The Sentry to Prevent War Criminals Abusing the Financial System

Refinitiv, providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, have announced its partnership with The Sentry, an investigative and policy team that seeks to prevent African war criminals and their business networks from abusing the international...

Elsewhen: Why Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon Are a Danger to the Financial Services Sector

With the technological transformation accelerating at fast pace, it’s not only the traditional financial institutions that have cause to worry about the developments in financial services but also Fintechs and disruptors due to the input of hug...

Orka: Getting 2 Million People Back in Work Is Going to Take Tenacity… and Technology

Worker-tech is changing the way employees look for jobs and the way employers recruit, but with even more speed and necessity thanks to the pandemic. Tom Pickersgill is the chief executive of Orka and on a mission to make life easier for the hourly...

CrediBook gets $1.5 million to help Indonesian retail wholesalers digitize their finances

CrediBook, a startup that helps Indonesian retail wholesalers digitize the financial side of their operations, has raised $1.5 million in pre-Series A funding led by Wavemaker Partners, with participation from Alpha JWC Ventures and Insignia Ventures...

This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 26/01

In this Tuesday’s The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup we highlight the latest international fintech updates. SEON teams up with hacker to educate on fraud and SmartSearch unveils ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) checker service. New product...

In Profile: Louise O’Shea of Confused.com

To launch our new In Profile series, where The Fintech Times sits down with an industry leader once a month. In this profile, Editor-in-Chief Gina Clarke chats to the CEO of Confused.com, Louise O’Shea. Louise is the driving force behind a mult...

Winklevoss-Backed Gemini on Hiring Spree in Singapore

Crypto exchange and custodian Gemini has been on an expansion drive in Singapore, widening its product offering and hiring for various roles to support its Asia Pacific business.&

kevin. Launches First Ever PSD2 Mobile Payments Solution

kevin., a fintech startup based in Lithuania, has launched the first-ever PSD2 payments solution for mobile payments from pre-linked bank accounts and has raised €1.5 million in seed funding to scale into new markets. kevin.’s solution, which e...

Bridge: Getting Serious About Financial Innovation in Public Transport

When travellers are eventually able to ease back into the daily commute, digitisation of payments in transport will grow – and the transport industry needs to be ready and agile Brian Coburn is the CEO of Scottish ‘payments orchestration’...

Juniper Research Finds Digital Wallet Spend to Exceed $10 Trillion Globally in 2025

A new study from Juniper Research has found that total spend via digital wallets will exceed $10 trillion in 2025, up from $5.5 trillion in 2020. The research found this dramatic 83% growth in spending will be fuelled by the heightened adoption of di...

Employers Look To Fintech Partners To Pilot Alternative Pay Cards And Faster Employee Payouts

Amid unprecedented unemployment and new financial strains on the economy, fintech benefits providers are gaining traction with medium and higher-paying tech companies, including PayPal .

Mastercard Fees to Rise by 5% for Brits Buying From EU

Mastercard has announced that it will be raising its fees by as much as 5x its current charges whenever UK cardholders order goods and services from the EU. The credit card giant is increasing the “interchange fees”, set by the provider...

Brady Dougan Getting In on Spac Boom

Blank check companies are the hottest trend on Wall Street. With Brady Dougan, another ex-chief executive of a major Swiss bank is now jumping on the Spac bandwagon.

Fintechs could see $100 billion of liquidity in 2021

Jake Jolis Contributor Share on Twitter Jake Jolis is a partner at Matrix Partners and invests in seed and Series A technology companies including marketplaces and software. More...

National Bank of Oman Enables 6,500 POS Machines with QR Code Payments

Helping more people go cashless, National Bank of Oman (NBO) has enhanced its QR code payments capabilities, with 6,500 Point of Sale (POS) machines enabled to date. As the first bank in Oman and the GCC region to launch QR code payments through POS...