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Ukrainians who fled war can now get free payment accounts with EU IBAN

The customer onboarding process is completed through the use of a mobile application, available for both iOS and Android mobile phones

Finance & Economics

Over 90% of European fintechs will adopt AI-enabled risk decisioning to combat fraud

New research from Provenir outlines the greatest risk analysis challenges, opportunities, and trends fintech decision-makers expect to see within this year

Countries

Reason why millions of Brits are at greater risk of banking fraud unveiled

Millions of UK bank account holders are putting themselves at a much greater risk of fraud

Science & Technology

 IT leaders ranked the leading source of security attacks: research

Malware, ransomware and phishing continues to plague global companies

Countries

¿Cómo apoyar económicamente a las Fuerzas Armadas de Ucrania en una guerra con Rusia?

El gobernador del Banco Nacional de Ucrania, Kyrylo Shevchenko, anunció el 24 de febrero la apertura de esta cuenta especial vídeo de referencia. El Banco Nacional de Ucrania ha creado una cuenta especial para la recaudación de fondos para el ejército ucraniano. ¡Cualquier persona de cualquier país puede realizar donaciones! Para las remesas en UAH: […]

Countries

Number of forcibly deported to Russia Ukrainians may now reach 40,000

Ukraine is doing everything to save its citizens and bring them back home

STOP RUSSIA!

‘Russian troops are deliberately shooting civilians in Chernihiv’, says Mayor Vladyslav Atroshenko

These shellings are completely chaotic and aimed at intimidating people even more

Finance & Economics

Genome waives fees for Ukrainians

Genome, an Electronic Money Institution licensed and supervised by the Central Bank of Lithuania, waives its fees for Ukrainian citizens in order to help them open EUR accounts. This means that Ukrainians will no longer have today an opening fee and all transfers will have a temporary 6-month discount period. For more details, Genome created […]

Finance & Economics

“In the 21st century, wars will be won by technology, not tanks”: the expert said what could save Ukraine’s GDP

During the war, the IT industry remains one of the few industries capable of supporting Ukraine’s economy with foreign exchange earnings. Thus, in a “positive scenario”, IMF experts in 2022 predict a decline in Ukraine’s GDP by 10% over the previous year and a decrease in production by 25-30% due to the shutdown of key […]

Finance & Economics

Most used payment options in Spain unveiled

The poll includes opinions of over 400 companies and 1 thousand consumers from Spain last month

Fintech & Ecommerce

BigCommerce and dLocal announced global partnership

dLocal has announced its strategic partnership with SaaS eCommerce platform BigCommerce. This way, dLocal aims to power cross-border and local-to-local payments to support BigCommerce’s global expansion in Latin America. dLocal’s solution enables BigCommerce merchants for the first time to accept localized payments such as local cards and Alternative Payment Methods, including Boleto Bancário and Pix […]

Countries

Brits are now facing more identity checks when shopping online

British online shoppers face more identity checks from now on, according to Ecommerce News. By subjecting consumers to a two-factor authentications the government wants to reduce fraud. More card payments will probably be declined. It is the biggest change to card payments in 16 years. According to the Guardian, in 2021, Britain lost 376 million […]

Fintech & Ecommerce

Akurateco has reached a level of 150 connectors all over the world!

The Netherlands-based white-label payment software provider Akurateco has announced an updated number of connectors now available to platform users. For the last 12 months, Akurateco integrated 60 connectors upon clients’ requests. In total, the system now supports integration to 150+ connectors operating worldwide that are available to all clients of the system. Akurateco also set […]

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How to financially support Ukraine’s Armed Forces in a war with Russia?

NBU Governor Kyrylo Shevchenko announced the opening of this special account in his 24 February video address. The National Bank of Ukraine has opened a special account to raise funds for the Ukrainian Army. Anyone from any country can donate! For UAH remittances: Bank: National Bank of Ukraine MFO 300001 Account No. UA843000010000000047330992708 EDRPOU Code […]

Finance & Economics

Average contactless payment increases by nearly 30% since new £100 limit was introduced

According to December 2021 card spending data from UK Finance, the average amount spent per contactless card transaction rose by almost 30% following the contactless spending limit increasing from £45 to £100 in October last year. In September, prior to the contactless limit increase, the average spend per contactless payment was £11.86, which increased to […]

Articles

Machine learning for dummies

Machine learning is so pervasive today that you probably use it dozens of times a day without knowing it