By Vince Graziani, CEO, IDEX Biometrics ASA Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are becoming increasingly popular with nation states around the world, and for a good reason. There are a number of advantages to the government-backed digital blockchain currencies, including making transactions faster and cheaper, as well as increased transparency for transactions. There is one […]
Mastercard has launched its next generation real-time payments gateway service PayPort+, which provides flexible access into the UK’s real-time payments infrastructure for Financial Institutions and Payment Service Providers. The solution, powered by Vocalink, a Mastercard company, and Form3, a technology partner, combines the benefits of cloud native technology with the highest levels of security, availability, and […]
The day job is set to become a thing of the past as nearly two-thirds (64%) of entrepreneurs plan to make their ‘side-hustle’ their main income, signalling the boom of the creator economy, according to new research from VibePay. VibePay, which powers account to account payments between consumers, friends and businesses, found that the popularity […]
The last two months have been pretty dynamic for the global crypto market. First, Elon Musk’s Bitcoin tweets and a new round of regulations by the Chinese government caused the unexpected pullback in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in May. Then, a month later, cryptocurrencies plummeted again after the US Department of Justice seized $2.3m in […]
A new Juniper Research study has found that 53% of the world’s population will access digital banking services in 2026; reaching over 4.2 billion digital banking users, from 2.5 billion in 2021. The research identified increased digital transformation efforts as enabling banks to function effectively during the pandemic; justifying the benefits of digital banking and […]
The cyber security and GDPR compliance platform, Naq Cyber, that supports small business across the UK, has warned that critical supply chains are being targeted by sophisticated ransomware cyber-attacks disrupting and impacting thousands of businesses just as the economy starts to recover from the pandemic. The world’s largest meat processing company, JBS, was recently targeted by […]
One Mortgage System (OMS), the seamless single-input enquiry to completion processing platform for brokers, has been adopted by Y3S to work alongside its second charge quotation and application system Lenderlink. The integration will offer Y3S advisers’ access to OMS’s all-encompassing CRM system and full back-office workflow solution. This partnership further extends OMS’s coverage across the […]
Railsbank, the leading global embedded finance platform, has raised USD$70m in its latest funding round. The latest fundraise was led by Anthos Capital and attracted a range of investors including Central Capital (VC arm of Indonesia’s largest privately held bank), Cohen and Company (the founder of Bancorp), and Chris Adelsbach’s new fund Outrun Ventures. Existing […]
Zoho Corporation, a leading global technology company, has announced its new Business Intelligence (BI) Platform — an AI-driven data analytics solution empowering businesses to surface precise and actionable insights through self-service data preparation and augmented analytics. Combining newly launched Zoho DataPrep with an enhanced version of Zoho Analytics, Zoho’s end-to-end self-service BI Platform enables organisations […]
After a fantastic performance in the first quarter of 2021 and reaching an all-time high in May, the value of the global crypto market dipped significantly in the last month two months. According to data presented by AksjeBloggen.com, the combined value of all crypto coins plunged by 48% since May reaching $1.32trn last week. However, […]
