Global retail e-commerce sales are predicted to grow by 50% over the next four years – but with so much competition, where should investors and entrepreneurs start? To further understand the state of the rapidly expanding global e-commerce market and the opportunities that are available, Merchant Machine has researched the most and least saturated sectors […]
Global retail e-commerce sales are predicted to grow by 50% over the next four years – but with so much competition, where should investors and entrepreneurs start? To further understand the state of the rapidly expanding global e-commerce market and the opportunities that are available, Merchant Machine has researched the most and least saturated sectors […]
On Friday, 23 September 2022, FCI, in partnership with the EBRD, held the latest conference on the resilience and development of factoring in CEE and SEE regions. The event was hosted at The Ritz-Carlton in Istanbul, Turkey, the day after the 2022 EBRD TFP Trade Finance Forum. This event offered EBRD TFP members, local FCI […]
SME Finance, the fintech reinventing growth financing for small- and medium-sized enterprises, has opened for business in Finland, promising fairer, faster growth financing for the nation’s smaller businesses faced with a €2bn funding gap. The move will make it easier for smaller businesses in Finland to obtain the growth financing they need to expand, including […]
The European Central Bank has chosen Nexi, the European paytech leader, to develop a front-end prototype for making payments with digital euros. After joining the call for expression of interest launched in April by the ECB as part of the digital euro investigation phase, Nexi has been appointed as one of the five companies, out […]
Fuelled by surging energy prices, the increased value of imports, and weak export performance, the UK trade gap widened to a near record-high in the three months to July, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The data additionally revealed that trade deficit in goods and services rose from £1.2bn to £27bn during this […]
LianLian Global, a leading global cross-border payments service provider, announced the introduction of the world’s first cross-border payments guarantee to China. LianLian Global’s end-to-end business payments network and best-in-class Know Your Customer (KYC) process enables the company to provide global online merchants and ecommerce entrepreneurs with the most transparent, compliant, and safe cross-border payment options […]
With financial services globally and in Singapore shifting towards embedded finance, KPMG announced today the launch of Singapore’s first embedded finance hub (the Hub) with ambitions to accelerate the adoption of embedded finance in the country. The Hub, set to run for at least 2 years is expected to provide incubation support to over 120 […]
Carbon Finance, a Pan-African microfinance bank, today announced it has extended its partnership with Mambu to continue growing its financial services offering and accelerate expansion. The agreement enables Carbon to offer the full-spectrum of banking products and services, and launch Carbon Zero, its new ‘Buy now, pay later’ (BNPL) product. Founded in 2012, Carbon is […]
European small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are suffering from significant payment issues, but lack a thorough understanding of the processes involved, new research from Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider Vodeno has revealed. The company commissioned an independent survey among 2,004 senior decision-makers in SMEs across the UK (504), Belgium (500), France (500) and the Netherlands (500). It found that […]
