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ABN Amro chief innovation and technology officer Christian Bornfield to step down

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. today announced that its Chief Innovation & Technology Officer (CI&TO), Christian Bornfeld, has decided to leave ABN AMRO on 1 May 2022.

10 January 2022

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AmEx delays launch of hybrid working programme as Omicron spreads

The following memo was sent today to all U.S.-based American Express colleagues from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen J. Squeri to update the timing of Amex Flex, the company’s new ways-of-working model:

10 January 2022

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CSI to offer turnkey bitcoin services to banks via Nydig

Computer Services, Inc. (CSI) (OTCQX: CSVI), a provider of end-to-end fintech and regtech solutions, has partnered with NYDIG, a leading bitcoin company, to offer a full suite of turnkey Bitcoin services to community financial institutions.

10 January 2022

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TP Icap completes first trades on crypto asset equity instruments

TP ICAP, a leading provider of market infrastructure, has marked a major milestone in its Digital Assets business with the first trades completed on crypto asset equity instruments with Goldman Sachs.

10 January 2022

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Paddle appoints Andrew Davies as CMO

Paddle, the provider of a complete payments infrastructure for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, today announces the appointment of Andrew Davies as Chief Marketing Officer as the company continues to build out its leadership team to pursue its global ambitions.

10 January 2022

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Phillip Securities revamps retail investment app

Phillip Securities, the brokerage arm of PhillipCapital, has launched its POEMS Mobile 3 application offering innovative new features and an intuitive redesign of the platform’s user interface, providing the tools and information to cater to the needs of the modern-day investor.

10 January 2022

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Contis adds Ecospend to banking-as-a-service platform

Ecospend, the leading UK provider of Open Banking technology, has today announced that it is partnering with Contis, the leading pan European Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) provider.

10 January 2022

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BUX amalgamates crypto investing with investment app

Beginning today, BUX will be introducing cryptocurrencies to flagship investing app, BUX Zero, in a phased rollout to clients in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Ireland.

10 January 2022

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Payroll and HR outfit PayFit raises €254m

PayFit, a leading payroll and HR management solution for SMEs, today announced that it has raised €254M in a Series E funding round, a record-breaking amount for a French human resources (HR) startup. General Atlantic, a leading global growth equity firm, led the round, with participation from existing investors Eurazeo, Bpifrance and Accel Ventures.

07 January 2022

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CHK partners with Nordigen to deliver account reconciliation

Free open banking platform Nordigen has entered into a partnership with CH Konsultatsioonid on their accounting solution Trigon to deliver financial data directly into the application and simplify the reconciliation process.

07 January 2022

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SIX and BearingPoint partner for Request-To-Pay service

The partners are jointly pursuing the goal to establish a fully digitalized solution to be used by major banks and invoice issuers in selected European markets for invoice issuing and payments processing.

07 January 2022

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Embedded finance company Rupifi raises $25m Series A

Rupifi, India’s 1st Embedded Finance company which operates in the B2B Payments space through its B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and SME focused Commercial Card products, has raised a $25M Series-A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Tiger Global. Existing Investors Quona Capital and Ankur Capital also participated in this round, along with Better Capital. Founded in 2020 by Anubhav Jain, Ankit Singh and Jawaid Iqbal, this is Rupifi’s second investment round within a span of 9 months, since its Pre-Series A in March 2021.

07 January 2022

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