Latest company updates: Finextra Research

UOB appoints new group CFO

UOB today announced that Mr Leong Yung Chee, the current Head of Group Corporate Banking, will be appointed as its new Group Chief Financial Officer (CFO), with effect from 22 April 2025. He will succeed Mr Lee Wai Fai, who will retire from his role as CFO after 20 years. Mr Leong will work alongside Mr Lee as CFO-designate with immediate effect, before he assumes official responsibilities as CFO on 22 April 2025.

12 mins

/retail

GoAuto selects One Inc for insurance payments

One Inc, the leading payments network for the insurance industry, announced today that GoAuto Insurance (GoAuto), has selected One Inc’s ClaimsPay® and PremiumPay® products for a fully integrated and digitized policyholder payment experience.

14 hours

/retail

Student loan assistance fintech Paidly closes Series A

Paidly Inc., a financial technology company revolutionizing the approach to student loan assistance, announces the successful closing of its Series A funding round with S30Build, LLC.

14 hours

/payments

Nuvei brings Google Pay to LatAm

Nuvei Corporation (“Nuvei” or the “Company”), the Canadian fintech company, today announces the expansion of its global partnership with Google to integrate Google Pay, an option now available for merchants across Latin America (LATAM).

18 hours

/payments

Kuady extends footprint in Ecuador and Argentina

Kuady, a leading payments service processor, has announced significant strides in its Latin American expansion, with the introduction of its digital wallet services in Ecuador and the launch of its virtual prepaid Mastercard in Argentina.

19 hours

/payments

Mastercard brings Apple Pay to customers in Egypt

Mastercard, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and Egyptian Banks Company (EBC), brings Apple Pay to users in Egypt, providing a safer, more secure and private way to pay in-store, in-app and online.

19 hours

/wealth

N26 adds ready-made funds from BlackRock to investment offering

N26 today announced the launch of Ready-Made Funds, a new offering added to its existing Stocks & ETFs trading product designed to make investing easier and more accessible than ever before.

19 hours

/cloud

Grab selects AWS as preferred cloud provider

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading superapp (NASDAQ: GRAB), announced that Grab has selected AWS as its preferred cloud provider.

21 hours

/payments

Shift4 acquires Card Industry Professionals

Card Industry Professionals – the Grimsby-based card payment solutions provider – has been acquired by Shift4, a US-based company that is a global leader in payments and commerce-enabling technology, listed on the New York Stock Exchange [NYSE:FOUR].

21 hours

/crypto

Bitpanda launches Fusion product

Bitpanda, Europe’s leading crypto platform, has announced the launch of Bitpanda Fusion. With this launch, Bitpanda has extended its industry-leading offering and now has a product to support every investment strategy.

21 hours

/payments

Equipifi and Synergent expand BNPL access to credit unions

equipifi, the leading Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform for financial institutions, announced its partnership with Synergent, a managed services provider and strategic host of Jack Henry Symitar core processing.

21 hours

/payments

EBay expands Klarna partnership

eBay and Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, have announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to key European markets making Klarna’s Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) payment options available to more eBay shoppers.

21 hours

Company updates