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Paysend and Transformify Team on On-Demand Payroll Services
Paysend and Transformify Team on On-Demand Payroll Services
February 27, 2023  |  Payroll

British FinTech Paysend and payroll platform Transformify have teamed to help contractors and vendors get paid. “Paysend will power Transformify’s new payout-to-cards capability for vendors...

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Klarna Debuts Late Fees in UK to Reduce Missed Payments
Klarna Debuts Late Fees in UK to Reduce Missed Payments
February 27, 2023  |  BNPL

Payments company Klarna has debuted a program to reduce missing payments among its U.K. borrowers. The Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) provider announced recently...

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Spex Capital Launches $120M HealthTech Fund
Spex Capital Launches $120M HealthTech Fund
February 27, 2023  |  Investments

The U.K.’s Spex Capital has debuted a $120 million fund to support digital healthcare and MedTech startups. The Spex Venture Health-Tech Fund, announced in a...

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Google, Mercedes-Benz Pact Spotlights How AI Can Drive Connected Car’s Evolution
Google, Mercedes-Benz Pact Spotlights How AI Can Drive Connected Car’s Evolution
February 27, 2023  |  Commerce Connected

Artificial intelligence (AI) may help drive the connected car’s journey from concept to fully-fleshed reality. Mercedes-Benz said last week that it had entered a long-term...

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Global 5G Rollout Hampered by Infrastructure and Adoption Roadblocks
Global 5G Rollout Hampered by Infrastructure and Adoption Roadblocks
February 27, 2023  |  Technology

Progress is sequential, and nowhere is that growing more apparent than with 5G’s global rollout. A rollout that’s been plagued by fits and starts. This,...

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TD Bank and HBSC Make ‘Monumental’ Settlement in $7B Ponzi Case
TD Bank and HBSC Make ‘Monumental’ Settlement in $7B Ponzi Case
February 27, 2023  |  Legal

A group of banks have agreed to settle a lawsuit tied to a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Among these is TD Bank, which announced in...

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Farfetch Aims to be at Center of Luxury Brands’ Shift to Digital
Farfetch Aims to be at Center of Luxury Brands’ Shift to Digital
February 27, 2023  |  Retail

Luxury retail marketplace Farfetch is facing the same inventory and macroeconomic headwinds as other players in the sector but is pushing forward with plans to...

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Bahrain’s Real-Time Payments Volume Primed to Exceed 1B By 2026
Bahrain’s Real-Time Payments Volume Primed to Exceed 1B By 2026
February 27, 2023  |  Real-Time Payments

A neighbor to Saudi Arabia is positioning itself as a potential instant payments global leader. Real-time payments are quickly becoming a necessity for both domestic...

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Bank of England Says ‘Britcoin’ Will Boost UK Businesses
Bank of England Says ‘Britcoin’ Will Boost UK Businesses
February 27, 2023  |  CBDC

The U.K.’s digital currency project will have real world benefits for the country’s businesses. That’s according to Ben Broadbent, deputy governor for monetary policy at...

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