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WorkFusion Raises $45 Million in Funding to Fuel Growth for Agentic AI for Financial Crime Compliance AI-Powered E-commerce, Stablecoins and Local APMs: Emerging Trends Headline EBANX’s Payments Summit in Mexico Second Day of Money20/20 Middle East Unveils Next-Gen Solutions at the Region’s Largest Ever Fintech Gathering United Gulf Financial Services Joins The Hashgraph Association and Exponential Science Foundation Adding $1M to Hedera Africa Hackathon Pool Prize Payhawk Transforms Spending Experience for Businesses With Four Enterprise-Ready AI Agents Alipay+ to Launch in Saudi Arabia, Facilitating Cross-Border Mobile Payments for Local Merchants Saudi Central Bank Launches Google Pay Service Through Mada Network Tamara Secures New Asset-Backed Facility of Up to $2.4 Billion Starling Reveals New-Look Logo, App and Cards as Bank Launches Brand Mission to Help Britons Become ‘Good With Money’ barq Joins Forces With Thunes to Power Faster, World-Class Remittances Across Saudi Arabia Paymentology Expands Presence in Saudi Arabia to Support Vision 2030 and Next-Generation Payments JPMorganChase and Plaid Announce an Extension to their Data Access Agreement for Sharing of Consumer Permissioned Data Enhancements to Ecommpay Subscriptions Service Help Address Failed Recurring Payments HSBC Deploys Wealth Intelligence for Its Wealth Management Staff to Enhance Client Experience Klarna Customers in US and UK Can Now Access Klarna Installment Plans for In-Store Apple Pay Purchases

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE

This week we have some great stories for you as David and Jason are joined by two great guests:

  • Caroline Plumb, CEO of Fluidly
  • Simon Balmain, Operations and Community Specialist at Monzo

We kick off the episode by taking a look at WorldPay selling to FIS and changing its tech stack. The group comments that it’s not a modern way to approach tech stack spending, it’s an oldschool way of doing things and 600M is a large amount to spend over 6 years to maintain technology (02:36).

Next up, we talk about Barclaycard bringing Alipay payments to UK retailers. There are some suggestions that this could mark the beginning of the end from the panel but they also wonder who the first adopter will be and Jason, for one, welcomes our new overlords (08:52).

We spoke to Tao Tao, Alipay’s Business Development Director to find out more (13:15).

We also talk to our 11:FS Americas MD Sam Maule to get a US insight into why 21% of Americans have no savings (:).

Other stories include:

  • 21% of Americans have no savings
  • Grab grabs more market share in SE Asia
  • SC’s startup bridge
  • Female-focused crowd-funding from NatWest
  • And finally, a German bank lets clients vote on dress code

All this and so much more on today’s show.

Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode, leave a review on iTunes and let us know your thoughts on the stories @FintechInsiders on Twitter where you can also ask the hosts questions, or email podcasts@11fs.com

This week’s episode was produced by Laura Watkins and edited by Alex Woodhouse.

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  1. WorkFusion Raises $45 Million in Funding to Fuel Growth for Agentic AI for Financial Crime Compliance Read more
  2. AI-Powered E-commerce, Stablecoins and Local APMs: Emerging Trends Headline EBANX’s Payments Summit in Mexico Read more
  3. Second Day of Money20/20 Middle East Unveils Next-Gen Solutions at the Region’s Largest Ever Fintech Gathering Read more
  4. United Gulf Financial Services Joins The Hashgraph Association and Exponential Science Foundation Adding $1M to Hedera Africa Hackathon Pool Prize Read more
  5. Payhawk Transforms Spending Experience for Businesses With Four Enterprise-Ready AI Agents Read more
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