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Qashio and Alinma Bank to rollout solutions to KSA customers

Qashio has entered an exclusive partnership with Alinma Bank, one of the youngest and fast-growing banks in KSA, to launch its operations in the Kingdom. This is one of the first times that a KSA bank has joined hands with a FinTech company to provide...

Purpl launches digital wallet on Mambu

Purpl, a remittance and cash-out aggregator, has announced its successful go-live on Mambu’s cloud-native banking platform. Having secured its digital wallet licence, Purpl’s new offering will provide Lebanese citizens at home and abroad with seamless ways of ...

e& money, Mastercard enter partnership to transform digital payments for UAE consumers

e& money, the fintech arm and financial super-app of e& life, announced its partnership with Mastercard to transform and evolve the way customers make payments via an exclusive prepaid card – enabling payments anywhere in the world and...

Mastercard brings Google Pay to Kuwait in partnership with Google

According to Mastercard’s New Payments Index 2022, 64% of MENA consumers, compared to 61% globally increased their use of at least one digital payment method in the last year, including digital cards, SMS payments, digital money transfer apps, and instant p...

Be the Business and Lloyds Bank extend major strategic partnership to empower businesses

Be the Business and Lloyds Bank have announced the renewal of their partnership, which first launched in 2019, to help hundreds of UK business leaders achieve sustained productivity growth and success. The partnership will continue to support and empower...

70% of European banks and FinTechs will increase investment in technology over the next 18 months

CCgroup has launched its research findings from How to influence fintech buyers, based on a survey of major banks and FinTechs across five European markets. The report reveals that, despite the FinTech and wider economic downturn, 70% of European...

Philippines’ Security Bank Corporation partners with ACI Worldwide to transform real-time payments platform

Philippines’ Security Bank will utilize ACI’s Enterprise Payments platform to modernize its payments infrastructure. The partnership will see ACI Worldwide accelerate Security Bank’s Digital Transformation journey, helping the bank stay ahead of evolving custo...

JSE launches Flagship Investment Challenge

Virtual trading floors for the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s (JSE) flagship financial literacy programme – the JSE Investment Challenge – have officially opened as the competition marks a 50-year milestone.  Designed to highlight the importance of inves...

Woolworths Wpay partners with Qwickcilver over gift cards

Qwikcilver Solutions in Australia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pine Labs Limited and a pioneer in SaaS based end-to-end gift card processing, has partnered with Woolworths Group’s payments entity Wpay to extend their gift card processing solutions and s...

Celebrating LGBTQ+ people in the workplace

As gay men in the property industry, David Mann MBE, Partner at Tuffin Ferraby Taylor, and Saleem Fazal MBE, Real Estate Partner at Taylor Wessing, have faced their fair share of struggles in the workplace but they believe there is plenty to be hopeful for...

The bright spots in Australia’s FinTech sector in 2023

With the FinTech industry growing, businesses need to stay on top of the latest developments in the market. Nick Aronson, VP Capital Markets, APAC Country Management, FIS, speaks to us about the latest technology in the financial services space and how...

Editor’s Question: How can SMEs meet net zero targets?

Net zero is a priority for many governments across the globe. Being net zero means adding no more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than the amount you’re taking out. In the UK, the government wants the economy to meet net zero targets by 2050. Its net z...