Former FIS Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Worldpay Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Stephanie Ferris rejoins FIS to continue the execution of the company’s strategy and achievement of goals that create value for FIS’ colleagues, clients and communities. Ferris brings with her significant fintech expertise and over 15 years of payments experience in strategy execution, finance,
Nedbank has announced that thy have been recognised as Investment Bank of the Year at Environmental Finance’s IMPACT Awards 2021. The award, which was presented to Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) on 6 September 2021, validates their leadership position as an investment bank with a clear and demonstrable commitment to contributing to the achievement of
ACI awarded XCelent Awards for Customer Base and Support, both for North America and rest of world ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time payments and digital payment software solutions, has announced that it has been named a leader in corporate digital banking platforms by Celent. The reports, which cover both North America and the rest of the world,
Read the white paper here SWIFT, the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, has today published a paper that outlines the potential for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to transform international finance, and details how SWIFT is leveraging APIs as part of its strategy to enable instant transactions anywhere in the world. APIs are
Mastercard’s Community Pass platform will be added to Paycode’s biometric identity and offline payments solution to unlock services for the underserved and unbanked in Africa Partnership enables offline real-time functionality for effective government disbursements and access to digital financial services in remote communities An estimated 57 percent of the population in Sub Saharan Africa remains
Clickatell solves the last mile of digital transformation by embedding payments in the service stream, simplifying digital commerce for consumers Clickatell, a leader in mobile communications and chat commerce, launches Chat 2 Pay. Chat 2 Pay takes Clickatell’s decades of developing chat commerce solutions for global customers and delivers a simple and comprehensive way for
MNT-Halan, Egypt’s leading fintech ecosystem, has announced a circa US$120 million investment by major global and regional growth investors: Apis Growth Fund II, Development Partners International (DPI), and Lorax Capital Partners. In addition, the company has also attracted venture capital backing from Middle East Venture Partners, Endeavor Catalyst, and DisruptTech. This round of investment demonstrates confidence in the fintech opportunity in Egypt and further institutionalizes the capitalization table of MNT-Halan. Previous investors of MNT-Halan have included GB Capital, DPI, Algebra Ventures, Wamda, Nowaisi Capital, Unidelta, Egypt Ventures, Battery Road Digital Holdings, and Shaka VC. Capitalizing on MNT-Halan’s first mover advantage, proprietary and
Despite the pandemic, B2B companies around the world reported increasingly positive trends for the year 2Checkout (now Verifone), the leading all-in-one monetization platform for global businesses, has released The State of B2B Digital Commerce survey findings. 2Checkout conducted a global study with over 1,000 companies to understand the main priorities and challenges related to B2B digital
Equity Group Holdings Plc has announced the appointment of Jonas Mushosho as a Non-Executive Director to its board following the retirement of Christopher Newson, Non- Executive Director in the Board. Jonas brings on board a wealth of leadership experience, having previously served in senior leadership positions in both the private and public sectors. He has
– Hunter previously led JPMorgan Chase’s Global Clearing business and brings extensive cash management and payments services experience to SWIFT SWIFT has announced the appointment of John Hunter as Chief Executive of the Americas and U.K. Region. Hunter was most recently Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, leading its Global Clearing business, and brings extensive experience
