fscom’s Senior Manager of Fincrime, Fred McDowell shares what elements make up a valuable MLRO Report. He also gave valuable context and practical suggestions as to the content that you might consider under each section.
In one of our most recent webinars this month, fscom’s Director Alison Donnelly and Senior Managers, Dipesh Patel and Dane Pedro JP, tackled the most common questions that come up in their daily work with clients who are seeking authorisation in the UK.
Green fintech Tred has announced that their UK green debit card launch will be with Mastercard, enabled by Nium’s card issuing service.
In anticipation of their upcoming launch, and to celebrate this announcement, they’ll be planting 10,000 trees with Mastercard as part of its Priceless Planet Coalition, launched last year with a firm commitment to plant 100 million trees by 2025.
London corporate team represents leading digital cross-border payments platform in achieving a post-money valuation of US$5 billion.
Latham & Watkins advised Zepz, formerly WorldRemit, on raising US$292 million in new primary financing and achieving a post-money valuation of US$5 billion. Zepz is a digital cross-border payments platform operating two market-leading brands (WorldRemit and Sendwave, acquired in 2021), with over 11 million users across 150 countries.
The round includes new equity investors Farallon Capital among others, as well as backing from existing investors Leapfrog, TCV, and Accel.
The Latham team was led by London corporate partners Mike Turner and Shing Lo, with associates Katie Kaplucha and Sam Peacock.
Did you know one of Modulr’s most popular platform features is card issuing?
So much so, we’ve decided to celebrate cards with our first ever Cards Week.
Join us from Monday 29.11 – Friday 03.12 for five succinct sessions over five days where you’ll have the opportunity to hear the latest innovations in card issuing from industry innovators at Visa, TagNitecrest and Zumo.
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PXP Financial Inc has announced a partnership with leading provider of integrated payment processing and technology solutions Shift4, as PXP expands its capabilities in the US market.
While some may say m-commerce has simply piggybacked on the overall e-commerce “boom”, this really isn’t the case: m-commerce has actually overtaken desktops, the traditional king of e-commerce, to become the reigning form of online payments. Yet a mobile-first world has some implications for issuers when it comes to payments – let’s dig in.
E-commerce growth is predicted to reach the pre-pandemic level by the end of this year. However, Fast-Growing and Emerging regions remain excluded from access to global e-commerce due to prevailing constraints on cross-border shopping.
