Tag: Fintech

UK FinTech Lanistar has secured Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) approval to operate as an Electronic Money Directive (EMD) agent of payments business Modulr.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has introduced a RegTech grant scheme and an enhanced digital acceleration grant (DAG) program to boost tech use in the financial sector.

Payments giant Stripe has entered into an agreement to purchase sales tax software enterprise TaxJar to improve tax compliance rates for internet firms.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has issued a draft practice guide to banks, superannuation trustees and insures on managing climate-linked financial risks.

Saudi Arabia’s only financial payments company Saudi Payments (SP) has introduced ‘sarie’ – an instant payments system – in collaboration with IBM and Mastercard.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed it will launch a ‘regulatory nursery’ for new FinTech companies in autumn of this year.

Banco Santander claims its digital transformation is ‘ahead of plan’ after it revealed more than 60% of its global IT infrastructure has already migrated to the cloud.

FinTech mobile platform Fiskl has partnered with PayTech leader Nexi to bolster the latter’s open banking offering.

Tel Aviv-based stock research platform TipRanks has secured $77M from a recent financing round led by Prytek and More Investment House.

UK-based open banking platform TrueLayer has closed a Series D investment round and secured $70m in capital funding.