The Center for Financial Professionals (CeFPro) an international research, events and media company have launched the third annual FinTech Leaders survey.

OpenPayd, an API-led Banking-as-Service provider, today announced the appointment of Phil Blows as VP of Sales.

Not all fintechs are created equal. There are, in fact, two main types of fintech businesses: those that have taken their business and digitised it, and those that have built their business digitally.

Research from Signicat, the Trusted Digital Identity™ company, has revealed that 41% of consumers across Europe have been unable to access new financial services thanks to a combination of pandemic lockdown restrictions and lack of access to digital options. The research of over 4000 consumers also discovered that two-thirds expect improvements following these poor experiences. One of these improvements should be 100% digital onboarding of customers.

Ontotext (OT) and Semantic Web Company (SWC), two of the strongest voices advocating the value of knowledge graphs for organizations dealing with large amounts of diverse data, have announced a strategic partnership to transform the data management process.

Mollie, one of the leading payment service providers in Europe, today announces new appointments to the executive team and board that will strategically support the further growth of the business and realisation of Mollie’s vision to become the most loved PSP in Europe.

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 Flywire, a high-growth vertical payments company, announced the Flywire Charitable Foundation, an initiative focused on improving equality, access, and affordability for underrepresented individuals in the global communities in which Flywire operates.

Fred Joseph joins WE DO GOOD as managing director and 5th partner, to expand the revenue based financing company activities internationally.

The ecommerce market is on a powerful growth trajectory – one that has only been boosted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forcing shoppers globally to stay at home. According to eMarketer, global ecommerce sales will hit $5 trillion next year, following a period of annual growth rates of over 20%.

Lendwise, the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lender specialised in Education Finance, has been selected to join The London & Partners’ Business Growth Programme.

Global financial services provider iBanFirst, delivering solutions across banking borders, has announced that it will continue to expand with the help of venture capital funds Elaia and Bpifrance, through its Large Venture fund.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, many traditional banks were relying on legacy IT systems, involving local branches and nostalgic ways of working, and using lengthy paper and digital processes to onboard customers.

We recognise the importance of keeping busy during this crisis, but have we gone too far? I’m hearing from the world of work regular complaints of “I’m back-to-back,” and we seem to have very little recovery time. 

IDnow (www.idnow.io) publishes their first trend report for the mobility sector: "Future mobility: An industry in transformation". As a leading provider of Identity Verification-as-a-Service solutions, IDnow serves more than 250 customers, including numerous companies in the mobility industry.