UK-based Fintech Atom Bank to Raise Ā£40 Mn, Plans for Initial Public Offering
Atom Bank, one of UKā€™s most innovative fintech banks is set to raise around 40 million pounds from its current shareholders. The retail bank revealed that it will use this capital to fuel its growth. Atomā€™s Vision The bank has expressed plans to float on...
Eftpos Announces Plans of Rolling Out National QR Code Payments Network
Eftpos, the Australian debit card provider revealed its plans of rolling out a national QR code payment network. The new system will play an important role in providing a seamless payment experience across the point of sale, mobile, and e-commerce platforms in Australia. According to...
Unveiling Features of Cloud-Based Business Process Management (BPM) Systems
Technological advancements have led to the development of different types of business process management (BPM) solutions. While on-premise BPM solutions gained considerable adoption in the past, cloud BPM is attracting tremendous interest from business enterprises around the world.Ā As businesses around the world are increasingly...
Aussie BNPL darling Afterpay partners with US financial services firm Stripe
Afterpay, an Australian buy now, pay later (BNPL) company announced its partnership with the US-based payments platform Stripe. The partnership will enable existing as well as new Stripe merchants to provide Afterpayā€™s services to their customers. The deal will allow Stripeā€™s customers to purchase items...
UK Car Platform Cazoo Acquires German Car Subscription Company Cluno
Introduction Cazoo, a UK-based car platform announced that it has acquired the German car subscription company Cluno. The acquisition is one of the many acquisitions made by Cazoo in 2021. Over a couple of weeks ago, Kazoo made the headlines when it acquired Englandā€™s vehicle...
B2B Email Marketing: Tips, Best Practices, and Templates
When it comes to Business to Business or B2B email marketing, things are completely different from a Business to Consumer (B2C) strategy. Though your emails are read by real people who are running real businesses, taking the same route as B2C when trying to reach...
Canva Acquires 2 European Startups to Fuel Growth in Design Automation & AI
Canva, an Australia-based technology company announced that it has completed acquisition of two European companies, Kaleido.ai (Austria-based) and Smartmockups (Czech Republic-based). With these acquisitions, Canva aims to strengthen its capabilities across the artificial intelligence (AI) and automation sphere.Ā The move will enable Canva to expand...
UK Fintech’s Primer Connect: The Next Big Thing in Financial Services
Primer, a UK-based fintech company which is backed up by venture capital firms Balderton and Accel, announced the launch of Primer Connect. Primer Connect is an open application framework that allows third-payments services to build integrations and connections on the Primer platform.Ā According to a report...
British Payments Company TransferWise Rebrands to Wise
Introduction After nearly a decade from its inception, TransferWise, a British payments group, is rebranding itself to Wise. With this move, Wise wants to showcase that it is more than a money transfer company. The name change is aimed to highlight the companyā€™s growing range...
Westpac Announces Digital Banking Partnership with SocietyOne
The Westpac Group announced that SocietyOne as its new partner that is set to join the new digital banking-as-a-service platform developed by the company. The alliance with the Westpac Group is expected to open up new growth opportunities for SocietyOne which provides a range of...
