Category: Doing Business Overseas
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This Week in Fintech: TFT Bi-Weekly News Roundup 12/05
Welcome to The Fintech Times Bi-Weekly News Roundup on Thursday – delve in for the latest fintech news. Job appointments Fintech PPRO has appointed Lázaro Campos as its first independent chairman in efforts to strengthen its board and governance. Campos takes over from Tim van Delden, who served as chairman through the last stage of…
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Procentia’s Smart ISP+ To Enable More Efficient Pension Performance
Procentia launches a Smart ISP+ for its existing clients who are currently leveraging its IntelliPen pension administration software to connect to the pensions dashboard. The pension software specialist has also launched its Smart ISP, a solution available to large pension schemes, master trusts, insurance companies or third-party administrators (TPAs) that do not currently use its…
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BridgerPay Launches World’s First Self-onboarding Payment Operations Platform After $6M Seed Round
$156 trillion will cross international borders in 2022, with cross-border transactions worth up to 41 per cent more than local ones. Given the staggering market size, all businesses are increasingly feeling the need to enter new markets. The problem is that, in order to scale internationally, merchants need a platform that allows them to automate…
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FinTech Awards London: Shortlist Revealed
FinTech Awards London, designed to recognise, attract and invest in the UK capital’s fintech talent, has unveiled the shortlist for this year’s Awards. The Awards, hosted by finance recruitment provider Recruit 121, will bring together leading innovators and digital experts together in an evening of celebration in London this July. EY has also been confirmed as…
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HMRC Checks Integration To Bolster the Accuracy of Tax Systems’ Cloud-Based VAT Platform
Tax Systems, a UK and Ireland provider of tax software, has implemented HMRC-recommended checks into its cloud-based AlphaVAT digital tax platform. The integration of these checks will enable AlphaVAT users to make correct decisions for VAT handling and improve the accuracy of submissions and payments. Tax Systems are the first software vendor to bring this…
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The Pandora Papers: The Importance of Enhanced Customer Due Diligence for PEPs
Anti-money laundering (AML) – stopping criminals from generating income through illegal actions – starts with knowing your customer to ensure they are who they say they are. Jackie Wheeler is the senior director of technical content at Jumio, a provider of identity verification and transaction monitoring powered by artifical intelligence. She is a professional writer since…
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Deserve Receives $250 Million Credit Facility
Deserve received a $250 million credit facility from Goldman Sachs, Cross River, and Waterfall Asset Management. Last year, Deserve experienced a 650% growth in transactions volume and an 800% growth in receivables. The company will use the credit facility to meet the growing demand from financial institutions, fintechs, and consumers. Payment-card-as-a-service startup Deserve announced a…
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Data Partnerships Reshape Commercial Risk Underwriting
Data partnerships have been in existence awhile. The size of the global alternative data market is slated to top $17.4 billion by 2027 at 40.1% CAGR. This growth has multiple implications for insurers who lack the means to harness large data stores. Benefits range from new markets access to augmented customer experiences. Underwriters gain more…
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Issue #363 – Is Debt Glamorous?
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Upstart to expand automated lending to business banking
Loan automation platform Upstart on Monday announced the launch of its Small Dollar loan, as well as a new product for small- and medium-sized business (SMB) lending. Small Dollar loan is for personal, payroll-based loans of around $1,000 or less. That offering was launched at the end of first quarter, Dave Girouard, Upstart Chief Executive,…
