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News/payments
Pay.UK is to embark on a round of industry consultation over its approach to delivery of the global message standard ISO 20022 as part of the country's New Payment Architecture.
05 February 2020
News/Transaction banking
Blockchain-based supply chain and trade finance startup Envoy Group is looking to expand beyond Latin America after securing a $13 million investment from Alcedo Digital Ventures.
Baton Systems, a provider of DLT-based bank-to-bank payments middleware for connecting disparate ledgers - both on and off a blockchain - has topped up its recent $12 million funding round with an extra $4 million from VC Illuminate Financial.
30 January 2020
Contour, the blockchain-based trade finance platform backed by a host of big name banks, has made its commercial launch.
28 January 2020
London-based B2B cross-border payments outfit Currencycloud has raised $80 million in a Series E funding round joined by blue-chip investors such as Visa, BNP Paribas and Siam Commercial Bank.
27 January 2020
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Bank of Thailand have completed a working prototype of a cross-border digital currency payment system.
22 January 2020
London-based working capital outfit Demica has closed a $30 million Series C funding round led by Simcah Management.
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chair Chris Giancarlo is teaming up with Accenture to explore the creation of a US central bank digital currency (CBDC).
17 January 2020
News/devops
Dutch co-operative Rabobank has used a low-code platform from Siemens' subsidiary Mendix to rebuild an online-only banking portal that manages €18 billion for over 500,000 Belgium- and German-based corporate customers.
16 January 2020
News/wholesale
Supply chain finance outfit Tradeshift is closing in on a $240 million equity and debt funding round as it seeks to hit profitability in the "near future".
14 January 2020
Standard Chartered has made a strategic investment in Chinese blockchain-enabled supply chain financing platform Linklogis. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
10 January 2020
Standard Chartered has opened a public portal through which clients can track the status of payments messages as they are transmitted over the Swift network.
08 January 2020
News/ai
HighRadius, a startup specialising in AI-powered order-to-cash and treasury management software, has joined the unicorn club thanks to a $125 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital and joined by Citi Ventures and Susquehanna Growth Equity.
07 January 2020
News/retail
As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.
23 December 2019
With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.
Open banking platform provider, Token.io, has announced the formation of M10 Networks, a new spin out company focused on developing digital money solutions.
10 December 2019
TreasurUp, a graduate of Rabobank's Moonshot innovation campaign, has sealed a contract with Belgium's KBC for the licensing of its white-label treasury platform.
03 December 2019
Henry Ohlsson, deputy governor, Riksbank kept Nordic payments professionals entertained during NextGen Nordics: P27 Momentum during his session on the role of the central bank in a changing environment.
26 November 2019
While banks, businesses and customers operate across the Nordics, infrastructure remains national. At NextGen Nordics: P27 Momentum, executive advisor at Nordea Johanna Lybeck-Lilja continues discussion on the pan-Nordic clearing system to be launched in early 2021 and reiterates that while the region has a long history of cooperation, the cross-border challenge has not been solved.
Driving community discussion on P27, payments professionals from across the Nordic region are gathering in Stockholm for NextGen Nordics: P27 Momentum to reflect on how this project will deliver a pan-Nordic clearing platform to settle domestic and cross-border multiple currencies.
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