Payments
Payments Unicorn Satispay Raises €320M Series D Led by Lee Fixel’s Addition
Italian mobile money platform Satispay has raised €320 million in Series D funding led by New York-based venture capital firm Addition, taking it to “unicorn” status with a valuation of over €1 billion. Existing investors Greyhound Capital, Coatue, Lightrock, Block
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Mollie Offers Up to €250,000 in Financing for Businesses in the Netherlands and Belgium
Dutch B2B payments company Mollie has introduced Mollie Capital, a credit service for the platform’s existing customers to obtain cash advances of up to €250,000. Customers will be able to apply for funding through the platform’s dashboard and funds can
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Crypto App hi and Mastercard Launch Debit Card With NFT Customisation
Crypto app hi and Mastercard have launched the world’s first debit card with NFT avatar customisation, allowing cardholders to personalise their card with an NFT avatar that they verifiably own. The card will initially be available to hi members in
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Finastra Integrates With Visa Direct for Cross Border Payouts
Financial services software and cloud solutions provider Finastra and Visa will co-develop new functionality to enable banks and financial institutions to offer their SME and individual clients cross-border payout solutions in multiple currencies and countries. The collaboration integrates Finastra’s Payments
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Payments Group PayU Finalises Acquisition of Colombia’s Ding to Expand to LATAM
Netherlands’ PayU has received the endorsement of Colombian regulatory authorities to acquire local electronic payment and deposit specialist Tecnipagos, better known as Ding. Based in Bogota, Ding allows merchants to make electronic deposits like they would with a savings account,
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Alpian Partners With Visa to Issue a Metal Debit Card in Switzerland
Digital private bank Alpian announced that it is now a Principal Member of Visa, allowing the company to issue its exclusive metal debit card in Switzerland. The pairing of the metal debit card with a multi-currency current account (CHF, EUR,
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Wix’s UK-Based Merchants Can Now Pay With Vyne
Account-to-account payments platform Vyne entered a new partnership with web development platform Wix that gives Wix’s UK-based merchants access to Vyne’s open banking payments infrastructure, enabling them to offer their customers the ability to pay directly from their mobile banking
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Netcetera’s ToPay Mobile Wallet Wins Aite-Novarica Group Innovation Award
Digital payment solutions provider Netcetera has been recognised in advisory firm Aite-Novarica Group’s annual Digital Wallet Impact awards, under the value-added services category. Netcetera won the award for its ToPay Mobile Wallet, a mobile app including all necessary functions for
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FIS Rolls Out New Central Infrastructure Payment Solution
American multinational company FIS has launched its new central infrastructure payment solution, RealNet Central, to help central banks transform their markets to digital-first, real-time payment economies. With real-time payments increasing, many countries must either modernize outdated payments infrastructure or build
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UK’s First Digital Promissory Note Transaction
Lloyds Bank has completed the UK’s first transaction utilising a digital promissory note (DPN) purchase. This landmark transaction dramatically increases speed of payment and paves the way for a significant increase in the use of promissory notes for a broad
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