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Finance & Economics

UK BaaS Platform Griffin Becomes Bank

The British Banking As A Service platform Griffin has received the status of a bank, as a result of which additional restrictions apply to it from now on.

News

Weavr Acquires Comma to Combine Embedded and Open Banking

Weavr, a London-based startup that provides companies with the opportunity to implement banking services and payments into mobile applications or SaaS platforms, has acquired the open banking platform B2B Comma Payments.

News

Nationwide Overhauls Payment Processing With Accenture and Form3

Nationwide Building Society has partnered with Accenture and A2A platform provider Form3 to transform its digital payments infrastructure through the introduction of a cloud platform.

News

BNPL Platform Affirm Quits Australia

The American Buy Now, Pay Later Affirm platform announced its withdrawal from the Australian financial services market.

News

ANZ to Trial Offline CBDC Payments

ANZ has established cooperation with two universities to test CBDC offline payments using smart cards, which can be loaded with funds and used as cash.

Finance & Economics

EBA to Crack Down on Banks Ignoring Gender Diversity

EBA noted the painfully slow progress of banks and investment firms in improving gender diversity policies and announced it wants supervisors across the EU to crack down on those non-compliers

Science & Technology

Cilab’s New Feature Lets Engineers Visualize NFC Terminal RF Field

NFC testing company Cilab has improved its high-speed tester with a new feature that enables NFC terminal manufacturers to test a device’s RF field by making it visible

Finance & Economics

Westpac Announces Initiatives To Back Women Business Leaders

Westpac announced new measures to help female-led SMBs with dedicated start-up and scale-up loans, as research reveals accessing finance is one of the main challenges for women in business

Society & Lifestyle

5 Tips for Managing Your Personal Finance

Money management is a crucial skill everyone should have in today’s world, where we are constantly inundated with advertisements and messages. It can be hard to resist spending money. However, if you’re not careful, all of this spending can quickly get out of control and leave you in a difficult financial situation.

Finance & Economics

Varo Bank Raising $50 Million at 28% Discount

Varo, an American neobank with the charter of the national bank, reported a capital raising of $50 million at a discount of 28% compared to its last estimate.

News

B2B Payments Platform Barte Raises $3 Million

Brazilian business-to-business payment platform Barte has announced that it has managed to attract investment funds in the amount of $ 3 million following the results of the initial round of financing.

News

Smart Lending Fintech Abound Raises £500 Million

Abound, a fintech company based in the UK has reported raising funds for 500 million pounds as a result of a combination of debt and equity financing.

Countries

Google Wallet Goes Live in Costa Rica

In Costa Rica, Google Wallet has been launched, giving users the ability to store and use their credit and debit cards, boarding passes, tickets, and other digital credentials on an Android NFC smartphone, a Wear OS smartwatch, or a Fitbit device.

Finance & Economics

Senators Urge Regulators to Take Action on Zelle Fraud

In the Senate, Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren, issued an appeal to financial regulators to take actions aimed at curbing fraudulent activity, against the P2P payment service owned by Zelle Bank.

News

Bankjoy Raises Funding From Curql

Bankjoy, a digital banking service provider based in Detroit, has announced the start of a new round of financing.

Finance & Economics

NinjaTrader Launches Web and Mobile Apps

NinjaTrader Group, LLC, a leader in futures brokerage and advanced technologies for active traders, announced the launch of new web and mobile applications for fully integrated trading on multiple devices.