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ACI Worldwide Pairs With Payment Manager NORBr on eCommerce Tools
ACI Worldwide Pairs With Payment Manager NORBr on eCommerce Tools
May 12, 2022  |  Commerce Connected

Real-time payments firm ACI Worldwide is partnering with NORBr, a payment services distributor platform for digital merchants, to facilitate merchants’ connection to ACI’s solutions.  Nigel...

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Egypt’s PayTabs Unveils Social Commerce Platform Paymes
Egypt’s PayTabs Unveils Social Commerce Platform Paymes
May 12, 2022  |  Social Commerce

Egyptian payment company PayTabs has launched Paymes, a new social commerce platform for customers in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region. As the company said...

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Klarna Debuts Virtual Shopping With In-Store Experts
Klarna Debuts Virtual Shopping With In-Store Experts
May 12, 2022  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Swedish buy now, pay later company Klarna has launched a virtual shopping tool, allowing consumers to shop online with the help of in-store experts. “By...

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Checkout.com to Acquire French IDV Firm ubble
Checkout.com to Acquire French IDV Firm ubble
May 12, 2022  |  Acquisitions

Checkout.com announced Thursday (May 12) it plans to acquire French digital identity verification (IDV) startup ubble in an effort to expand its financial services offering....

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London FinTech Ebury Expands Global Footprint with Bexs Acquisition
London FinTech Ebury Expands Global Footprint with Bexs Acquisition
May 12, 2022  |  Acquisitions

London financial services firm Ebury signed a deal to acquire Brazilian FinTech Bexs in a move to broaden Ebury’s offerings of global money transfer solutions...

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Italian Payments Bank Nexi Acquires German POS Firm Orderbird
Italian Payments Bank Nexi Acquires German POS Firm Orderbird
May 12, 2022  |  Acquisitions

Nets, the payments unit of the Italian bank Nexi, is acquiring a majority stake in Germany’s cloud-based point-of-sale firm (POS) platform orderbird. The tie-up will...

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EBA Warns About Non-Bank Lenders, Recommends Regulatory Changes 
EBA Warns About Non-Bank Lenders, Recommends Regulatory Changes 
May 12, 2022  |  Bank Regulation

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has warned that the largely unharmonized regulatory regimes across Europe regarding non-bank lending may create challenges for stakeholders, including regulators,...

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Crypto Banking Firm BVNK Raises $40M in Series A
Crypto Banking Firm BVNK Raises $40M in Series A
May 12, 2022  |  Investments

South African crypto-to-fiat startup BVNK has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round, the company said on its website Thursday (May 12). BVNK...

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UK Regulator Fines Four NatWest Banks for Interchange Fee Violations
UK Regulator Fines Four NatWest Banks for Interchange Fee Violations
May 12, 2022  |  Regulation

Four NatWest Group banks — National Westminster Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ulster Bank and Coutts & Co. — were hit with fines totaling $1.9...

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