Company News

Allianz Africa has partnered with OKO, a mobile-based provider of crop insurance for smallholder farmers in Africa.

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency may change the financial world, but authorities around the globe worry it might infringe on people’s privacy.

Luxembourg-based LuxTrust’s has developed IDKEEP, the privacy protecting platform. Now the platform is getting a private beta test together with Cambridge Blockchain, the compliance company.

Anglo-Gulf Trade Bank is a new venture supported by Microsoft and Publicis Sapient, the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe, the communications group.

Having already partnered up in the UK in 2016, Klarna and ASOS are now expanding their team-up across the pond.

UK challenger bank Monzo has said it is sorry for storing PIN codes in log files that engineers had accesses to.

Financial services organizations just got another way to beef up their protection against online application fraud as Emailage, the online fraud prevention and email risk assessment company, has signed a partnership with Featurespace, the risk detection and fraud prevention company.

Launched in 2018, Judo Bank just closed a A$400m ($270.62m) round, bringing the total amount invested into the neobank to A$540m ($365.34m).

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corporation has announced it has bought 67 per cent of the equity of Credible Labs, a FinTech startup.

Mastercard has formed a partnership with payment solutions and card issuing company Edenred to launch a test pilot of biometric cards in Mexico.