The total funding of thee femtech sector in the UK has exceeded £648m, according to the latest FemTech in the UK report for Q3 2022 published by FemTech Analytics, a subsidiary of UK-based consortium Deep Knowledge Group. Having seen a significant increase over the past few years, Women’s wellness represents the biggest subsector of the […]
Analysis of Google search data reveals that searches for ‘CBDC’ (Central Bank Digital Currencies) exploded 1,041% above average levels in the United Kingdom from September 2022 to an all-time high. ‘CBDC’ searches are also at all-time highs globally and in the United States. The analysis, by cryptocurrency betting review website Cryptobetting.org, reveals that searches for […]
Today at the Money20/20 conference, Kapitus, a leading provider of financing to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), announced it has selected Mambu’s cloud banking platform as its technology foundation. Kapitus will leverage Mambu’s low-code, composable lending engine to achieve a faster time-to-market as it evolves the commercial lending space. Since it launched in 2006, Kapitus […]
GoCardless, a global leader in bank payment solutions, has launched Protect+, an end-to-end fraud prevention solution that detects fraudulent activity and protects merchants from potential losses through enhanced payer verification, 24/7 fraud monitoring and chargeback challenges. With Protect+, merchants will be able to improve their overall percentage of successful payments, significantly reduce the costs associated […]
Over 82% of ecommerce organisations are now using web scraping to gather external data to help guide their decision-making, overtaking internal data collection (81%), which stands as the number one method in nearly every other sector. This is one of the key findings from the new Oxylabs white paper, Alternative Data Defines Competition in the US & UK […]
9fin, the leading leveraged finance (levfin) intelligence platform, has published a comprehensive report on European ESG within levfin alongside its new ESG Company Data product launch. The data from the report highlighted some depressing trends for reporting on diversity metrics including: Only 9% of companies report their gender pay gap across all geographies Board representation of […]
After years of growth and recent investment, Backbase refreshes brand to reach evolving banking industry Backbase’s entrepreneurial culture is driving organic growth across the world, in terms of revenue and customers, as the company’s mission to re-architect banking around the customer through Engagement Banking is gaining global traction. That culture, growth and mission were externally […]
Mastercard, the global payments technology company, and PostePay, part of the Poste Italiane Group, today announce they are working together to launch a “Request to Pay” (RTP) solution in Italy. Request to Pay allows billers to request the payment of goods and services, digitally and in real-time. The payer receives a digital request on their […]
BlueSnap, a global payment orchestration platform of choice for leading B2B and B2C businesses, today announced a new partnership with BitPay, the world’s largest provider of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment services. This product partnership will give businesses the ability to accept and get paid out in up to 15 different cryptocurrencies and seven fiat currencies […]
Manchester-based embedded finance specialist, BankiFi, has today gone further than ever in articulating its vision for the future of digital banking through the publication of its informative, new whitepaper, entitled ‘Embedded banking but not as you know it’. Amidst growing uncertainty within the broader fintech market, embedded banking continues to stand out as an area […]
