[ad_1] Mastercard has significantly strengthened its presence in the Nordics in recent years and has now unveiled a collaboration with fintech startup Copenhagen Fintech to drive innovation in the region.Last year, Mastercard snapped up Danish open banking technology provider Aiia and recently unveiled a partnership with Finnish card-as-a-service platform Enfuce.According to Mastercard, it is committed …

[ad_1] People in the UK are streets ahead of their European counterparts in their embrace of digital forms of banking but financial providers must do more to educate their customers, a study has found.Research commissioned by CRIF, the European consumer and business credit information firm, quizzed thousands of people across France, the Czech Republic, Italy, …

[ad_1] Business ebbs and flows are a fact of life. It’s like riding a wave; you want to accept the flows and find the best ways to deal with the ebbs.Lydia Stone has more than 20 years of experience building and leading accounting organisations. She managed IPO, primary and secondary financing transactions, M&A, and full …

[ad_1] New research launched by Twilio (NYSE: TWLO) (LTSE: TWLO), the customer engagement platform, has found that the cost-of-living crisis has given way to new consumer behaviours and expectations. Data from over 8,700 people across Europe has revealed that these new norms will put increased pressure on businesses to connect with their customers in meaningful …

[ad_1] The Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA), a pan-African dynamic learning ecosystem, has partnered with Benin’s Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation to launch a national digital academy in the country.The launch of SADA in Benin follows successes in other countries. Since August 2020, SADA has trained 3,000 policy and decision-makers across 26 countries including …

[ad_1] Canadian fintech companies saw $810million in total investment across 85 deals in the first half of 2022, down from $1.9billion in the second half of 2021. It was also a notable drop compared to the first half of 2021, which saw $5.4billion in investment across 108 deals. However, the first half of 2021 was an outlier, with …

[ad_1] Technological partners Zetly, Transmira, Haste Arcade and PowChess, have announced a sport metaverse pilot programme.Based on the solutions of the web3 ecosystem, blockchain networks and digital technologies, Zetly will transfer a limited number of selected sports clubs to the metaverse, helping them to create a virtual non-fungible token (NFT) fan merchandise and virtual ‘Play2Earn’ …

[ad_1] The Financial Health Network, the US’ authority on financial health, with support from the Citi Foundation and Principal(R) Foundation, unveiled the Financial Health Pulse: 2022 US Trends Report. This fifth edition of the report finds financial health in America declined across many demographic and socioeconomic groups as spending outpaced income and savings accounts were …

[ad_1] ThetaRay, a provider of AI-powered transaction monitoring technology, has announced that ARCA, a premier African payment services provider, will implement ThetaRay’s advanced SONAR SaaS anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions list screening solution for transactions on its open AI-based platform.ARCA is the first Nigerian fintech to adopt ThetaRay’s advanced SONAR solution, known for its ability …

[ad_1] Innovate Finance, the industry body representing UK fintech, and a community of  fintech academics from top UK universities have unveiled the UK FinTech Academic Network (UKFAN).UKFAN will tackle challenges in the UK’s financial services industry with research roadmaps with key topics such as AI, open banking, payments, blockchain, regulation and green finance.Professor Markos Zachariadis from …

[ad_1] US-biased financial compliance platform Kompliant selects authID’s biometric authentication for secure merchant onboarding.Kompliant, which works with payment processors and sponsor banks, will integrate authID’s biometric authentication platform Verified to stop identity fraud and automate digital onboarding for its customers.It will deploy authID’s identity authentication solution to streamline and secure online merchant application processing and …

[ad_1] Ziina, the UAE peer-to-peer payment app, is expanding to Jordan as part of the company’s mission to drive financial freedom in the Middle East.The company’s co-founders, siblings Faisal and Sarah Toukan, explain that Ziina’s first international foray represents a ‘homecoming’ as both grew up in Jordan’s capital city Amman before heading to the US …

[ad_1] Standard Chartered completes industry-first pilot of a trade financing validation service provided by fintech MonetaGo over the SWIFT messaging network.With the aim of detecting, deterring and preventing duplicate financing, the Trade Financing Validation Service powered by MonetaGo’s secure financing system is the first natively global solution that is interoperable between markets.Accessible via SWIFT’s global …

[ad_1] Organisations in the embedded payments ecosystem have joined forces to produce industry standards that protect their payments rights.The Embedded Payments Bill of Rights, launched at Ignite – the annual conference of embedded payments ecosystem Infinicept in Denver – is aimed at players in the embedded payments ecosystem including independent software vendors, pure play payments companies, …

[ad_1] Tech Nation picks 35 scaleups to join the six-month government-backed Libra programme supporting ethically underrepresented UK tech founders and tackling racial inequality in the country.The UK platform for tech scaleups has revealed the startups with Black, South Asian, East Asian or Arab founders who have been accepted into Libra 2.0.Those companies joining Libra collectively …