/people
Exchange operator Nasdaq has appointed Sarah Youngwood as chief financial officer (CFO).
30 August 2023
/startups
Startups in Africa's fintech market have secured more than $2.7bn in venture capital (VC) funding in the last two years, according to a recently released report.
/crypto
A US federal appeals court has sided with an asset manager in a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) after the regulator denied an application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund (ETF).
/regulation
Network analytics and simulation firm FNA has been awarded $100,000 as part of the University of Cambridge’s SupTech Launchpad competition, to develop a working prototype of a tool for financial market monitoring via social media and web extraction.
/payments
Bank of America is bringing its Global Digital Disbursements technology to Canada via the country's popular Interac e-Transfer system.
29 August 2023
American document workflow software firm PandaDoc has acquired German business payment network Denario. Terms were not disclosed.
Swedish open banking and payments firm Trustly has acquired A2A-based recurrring payments platform SlimPay in a deal believed to be worth €70 million.
BMO Commercial Bank has joined forces with Mastercard and Extend to give clients the power to create and push virtual cards to their employees' mobile wallets.
/wealth
Goldman Sachs continues its retreat from the mass-market banking arena, selling off its Personal Financial Management (PFM) unit to Creative Planning.
28 August 2023
Having co-founded a gaggle of challenger banks, serial entrepreneur Anthony Thomson is launching an "acceleration partner" to help scale fintech startups.
/inclusion
Kenyan telco Safaricom has launched its ground-breaking M-Pesa mobile money service in Ethiopia.
Cryptocurrency exchanges and payment processors in the US will be required to report information on their users' transactions to the Internal Revenue Service under a new Treasury proposal.
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