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Abu Dhabi Global Market and Hacken bid to set benchmarks for blockchain security

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the international financial centre of the UAE’s capital, and Hacken, a global leader in blockchain security auditing, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaboratively set new benchmarks for blockchain security and compliance.

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Square extends offline payments to all hardware devices

Offline payments, Square’s no-connection-required solution to deliver continuous commerce connectivity, is now available to Square sellers using every hardware device, and in every country.

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MQube adds complaince check feature to mortgage marketing product

MQube, a mortgage technology company and parent of MPowered Mortgages, the UK’s fastest mortgage lender, has today announced that it has enhanced “Marketing Genius”, a tool which generates marketing content for brokers.

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Traydstream appoints Stephan Hufnagl as chief technology officer

Traydstream, a leading provider of innovative trade finance solutions, is delighted to announce the appointment of Stephan Hufnagl as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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Former Tesla fintech head spins off Aspiration’s green consumer financial services brand

In response to the growing demand for climate-friendly financial services, fintech and sustainability industry veteran Tim Newell has reached an agreement with climate finance company Aspiration Partners, Inc., to spin off Aspiration’s green consumer financial services brand into a new standalone company.

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Jordan Kuwait Bank implements Intellect transaction banking platform

Intellect Global Transaction Banking (iGTB), the transaction banking specialist from Intellect Design Arena Limited, has announced Jordan Kuwait Bank’s (JKB) successful implementation of Digital Transaction Banking (DTB) platform enabled by eMACH.ai architecture.

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Airwallex releases payment acceptance feature in the US

Airwallex, a leading global payments and financial platform for modern businesses, today announced the U.S. launch of its payment acceptance solution. U.S.-based merchants can use the service to accept payments from domestic and international customers.

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Which? calls out TSB and the Co-operative Bank for lax mobile security

Weaknesses in some banks’ security could leave customers exposed to scammers, a new Which? investigation has found, as the consumer champion rates the best and worst firms for keeping customers safe.

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ASX seeks industry feedback on move to T+1

ASX has today released an industry whitepaper to facilitate a discussion on the potential move from T+2 to T+1 settlement in Australia and is inviting industry stakeholders to make a submission.

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Zilch to leverage AI with Amazon Web Services

Zilch, the world’s first ad-subsidised payments network (ASPN), announces today that it has extended its collaboration with cloud provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate the rollout of AI innovation across the Zilch proposition.

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Volt launches one-click PayTo payments in Australia

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, today announces the launch of its secure, PayTo based, one-click payment solution for its retail customers in Australia.

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Standard Chartered joins Visa B2B Connect

Standard Chartered today announced that it has joined Visa B2B Connect, a multilateral payment network that enables faster and frictionless account-to-account cross-border payments for its corporate clients.