Category: Doing Business Overseas

Nude has selected the online payment processing solution of GoCardless to power the payments for its users to save and invest for their first home deposit. The deal will see the personal finance app using the GoCardless network to move money from a saver’s bank account into its Nude Lifetime ISA. By utilising GoCardless’ suite…

The Thai-based fintech Forward has received investment from the southeast Asian cryptocurrency platform Zipmex as part of a series of investments aimed at promoting and supporting blockchain projects and entrepreneurs. Zipmex has invested in Forward, a Thai-based decentralised finance platform situated on the EVM chain that offers a decentralised derivative exchange, lending and borrowing pools…

The Bank Automation Summit Fall 2022 agenda is set, with sessions on developing for the cloud, embedded finance and robotic process automation (RPA) governance. The September event also features a greater focus on networking and peer interactions, including a roundtable discussion on automation, innovation and budgeting strategies. Photo by CanStock Bank Automation Summit Fall 2022…

Citi is furthering its “technology for good” focus, deploying two tech leaders to serve as chief technology officers at minority-owned community banks and turning to open banking in its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The initiative, announced today but enacted earlier this month, saw Abhijit Bhattacharya, Citi director of engineering and partnerships, join $187…

Core and digital banking solutions provider Jack Henry is adding real-time fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions to its software stack to keep up with continuing growth — and a range of fraud — in digital payments. The company has taken on the new fraud and AML solutions because of the speed they can achieve,…

Like brakes to a bicycle, fintech must exist within the realms of regulation if it is to ditch its ‘wild west’ persona. Indeed, the adoption of various elements of the industry, like cryptocurrency, has ultimately suffered due to the lack of regulation that surrounds and supports them. Throughout the entire month of May, The Fintech Times will…

London-based global fintech Unlimint, has announced it is expanding its local payment methods portfolio with the addition of Latin America’s largest digital wallet, PicPay. The platform will enable merchants to access over 60 million customers in the region. Unlimint is an award-winning global fintech offering advanced payment capabilities through an evolving financial interface to businesses…

PayerMax is to establish a foothold in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to continue its support for local payment methods; which currently extends to Southeast Asia, South Asia, South Korea and Latin America (LATAM). The omni-method collection and disbursement solution has announced its intention to engage and partner across MENA’s rich digital payments,…

Em Conversa looks to uncover the secrets in Latin America (LatAm) that have caused the fintech market to boom, from being worth less than $50million in 2016, to $2.1billion in 2022. This week we head back to Brazil to learn about international eCommerce opportunities from Ebury’s CCO, Fernando Pierri. Fernando Pierri, CCO at Ebury Expanding a company…