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YouLend, the global leader in embedded financing, has revealed a significant rise in UK SMEs leveraging embedded financing solutions to secure vital capital ahead of Black Friday and the Christmas season. Data from YouLend indicates a 30% increase in financing applications leading up to Black Friday 2024, with e-commerce platforms driving much of this demand….
Solidgate — a leading payment processing platform that offers orchestration and acquiring capabilities for over 150 currencies and payment methods—has today announced the launch of its Tax Compliance Platform, a self-service, pay-per-use solution designed to simplify VAT and sales tax management for multinational digital businesses. Providing a modern alternative to archaic tax management tools, this…
With this year’s Black Friday falling on 29th November and Cyber Monday on 2nd December, aka “Cyber Weekend”, retailers across the UK are gearing up for the year’s biggest spending event in the run-up to the Christmas holiday season. Last year’s Black Friday achieved record sales of £13.3 billion, up 7.6% from 2022. Lloyds Bank…
Yuno, a leading global payment orchestrator, announces that Mastercard’s Click to Pay at checkout is now available to all Yuno clients. Click to Pay helps improve customer experience by ensuring purchases can be made securely and quickly with just a few clicks, significantly decreasing the instances of cart abandonment that plagues the e-commerce industry. According…
SmartStream, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions provider, today unveiled the findings of a new survey conducted in collaboration with Acuiti Management Intelligence. The report titled ‘The Future of Reference Data: From Compliance to Alpha’, highlights the growing importance of reference data investments for financial firms and the strides being made in data standardisation…
Labour violations, unlawful money lending, consumer protection violations and cybercrime are becoming as common as bloated waistlines, and unwanted presents during the holiday season as recorded instances across these categories spike in the final three months of the year according to historical analysis by LSEG Risk Intelligence. In 2023, 67% of all new LSEG World-Check…
Leading global digital payments company, Checkout.com, today announced its expansion into Japan supported by new direct acquiring capabilities. This strategic move reflects Checkout.com’s continued commitment to delivering high-performance, localized payment solutions across APAC, designed to meet the evolving needs of both domestic and global merchants. To lead this expansion, Checkout.com has appointed Noriko Sasaki as…
Profile, a leading global financial solutions provider, leverages the advanced capabilities of AI.Adaptive, and following the successful “text/voice to SQL” and “text/voice to API” solutions, today announces the launch of its pioneering Document Intelligence solution, set to transform document processing for organisations worldwide. The solution integrates seamlessly with existing systems or operates autonomously, while its scalability…
Rise, a New York-based blockchain fintech company, has successfully secured $6.3 million in its Series A funding round, led by Draper Associates and supported by Polymorphic Capital, with participation from DCG, JAM Fund, Ryze Labs, and Paradigm Shift Capital. This latest funding milestone brings the total capital raised by the company to $10 million, underscoring investor confidence in Rise’s vision for…
Wahed is thrilled to announce a strategic investment from Qatar Development Bank (QDB), marking a significant milestone in its mission to redefine ethical investing and financial inclusion. This collaboration unites two forward-thinking organizations dedicated to fostering financial empowerment, transparency, and accessibility. With QDB’s backing, Wahed is poised to accelerate the development of innovative wealth-building solutions…
SkySparc, a leading corporate and financial institutions solutions provider, announces the appointment of Logan Wacker as Managing Director, Americas Practice Lead, to build and lead the company’s treasury technology delivery offering. By combining deep domain expertise with cutting-edge technology solutions, SkySparc enables finance leaders to transform their operations through intelligent, data-driven decision-making and automated workflows. Logan…
Avaloq’s research, conducted among over 300 wealth managers and 3,000 investors globally, reveals that 87% of UK wealth managers believe AI will be integral to their future work, with the same proportion believing that AI will bring benefits to the wealth management industry as a whole. Avaloq’s research reveals the greatest potential for AI to…
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