Leading international fintech PR firm SkyParlour has today announced the appointment of Matt Pears to its board as Executive Director and Head of SkyParlour Scale.

This follows significant growth for the firm, which has increased its team by 50% and its revenue by 100% on pre-Covid figures.

Global Processing Services (GPS), a leading global payment technology platform that powers Starling, Revolut and Curve, has today announced the appointment of Jill Docherty as Director, Global Partnerships.

Based in London, Jill sits on GPS’ global executive committee and is responsible for identifying, leading and managing all GPS ecosystem partners, facilitating collaboration to drive innovation and growth for GPS and its customers.

Jill spent fifteen years at Mastercard and Visa where she held a number of senior roles across Business Development, Customer Success, Product and Marketing. Jill also has extensive international experience having lived and worked across three continents, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and Europe.

USDC and USDT are currently the world’s leading stablecoins, with a combined share of more than 80% of the stablecoin market. Both are pegged to $1, but they differ in terms of how they are backed and audited. So which one is better for cross-border settlements?

Banking Circle, the Payments Bank for the new economy is reporting a significant uplift in its performance in 2021 as it continues to help Payments businesses, Banks and Marketplaces access global cross-border payments, accounts and liquidity management that enables their business customers to transact more efficiently both locally and internationally.

This latest funding round and support from General Atlantic is designed to accelerate Modulr’s vision to become a payments infrastructure leader across the UK and Europe and enable any software platform to embed payment capability using Modulr’s modern FinOps hub.