FLEETCOR has been credited with a Gold Award in the Workplace Wellbeing Index awards by Mind, the mental health charity. The Gold Award is given to employers who have successfully embedded mental health into their policies and practices and demonstrate a long-term and in-depth commitment to staff mental health.
Griffin – the UK-based Banking as a Service provider – has secured an additional £12.5 million ($15.5 million) in funding in its quest to become the bank fintechs can build on. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from existing investor EQT Ventures and fintech leaders from Plaid, Wise, Liberis, and Worldpay, among others.
Griffin is building a full-stack vertically integrated BaaS platform, powered by modern user-friendly technology. The company has raised $27 million of funding to date and recently submitted its application to become an authorised bank to the UK regulators. This new round of investment will be used to grow the leadership and operational teams and continue the build of the core banking platform.
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Carta Worldwide is hiring a new Business Development Manager for our European sales team in London.
Fintech Rewired is now live! It’s a brand new interview series with industry leaders in the Fintech space.
But with one key difference: every interview is carried out over a few games of Shuffleboard. Watch episode 1 with Alana Parsons, COO of Caxton, here.
DECTA, a global payment processing company, provider of full-cycle digital payment services, today announced that it has become a Visa Ready certified partner under the Fintech Enablement program.
Chargebacks911, the leading dispute technology specialist that powers chargeback remediation for the largest global eCommerce businesses and financial institutions, today announces that it has achieved the milestone of 1,000 integrated data connections and ingestible file types though its highly automated plug-in-and play platform.
Today’s merchants have faced an uptick in fraudulent chargeback claims over the last couple of years, with profits reducing by as much as 25% due to ‘Friendly Fraud’. With over 1,000 plug-in connections, Chargebacks911’s automated platform provides a scalable method for merchants to exchange missing information that banks require to identify invalid chargeback claims and thwart the growth of this negative trend.
Leading online payments platform, Payset, is utilising bank accounts from Banking Circle to offer fast, low-cost global payments. Providing customers with multi-currency accounts, pre-paid cards and currency exchange services, Payset helps businesses hold, exchange and move money around the world quickly, effortlessly, and affordably. Working with tech-led Payments Bank, Banking Circle, Payset aims to bring financial services up to speed with modern business by eliminating the expenses, delays, and red tape associated with moving money between currencies or across borders.
Despite the fact that cryptocurrency payments are soaring in popularity, the truth is that most regular people still don’t understand how crypto and digital wallets work, or are wary about using the technology for making purchases — a fact that’s reinforced by bank card payments still accounting for 80% of aviation service transactions.
