Salad Money, a social enterprise launched in 2019 to provide an alternative to high-cost lending for NHS and public sector workers with poor, thin, or non-existent credit scores, has appointed Alex Marsh, formerly head of Klarna UK, to its Board as a non-executive director.
The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) and Japanese blockchain fintech company Soramitsu (Tokyo, Japan; President Kazumasa Miyazawa; Group CEO Makoto Takemiya) have begun a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) for a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Starting from November 1, 2023, the CBSI has been testing the system provided by Soramitsu for use cases related to domestic and foreign payments, including testing simulated international remittances.
Apple has sent a proposal to Goldman Sachs that would end the credit card and savings account partnership that the banking giant has been seeking to get out of, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Commonwealth Bank has today provided an update on its strategy to reimagine the banking experience for its retail and business customers as they increasingly adopt and use its leading digital banking services.
UK-based Paysend has announced the raise of a USD 65 million in funding round, aimed at its development process and improvement of cross-border payments tools
Corporate mobility payments platform XXImo has announced that it is going all-in on Amazon Web Services as an EU Visa card issuer to process payments entirely through the AWS Cloud in Q1 2024
