Virgin Money teams with UK FinTech firm to bolster lending offering
Virgin Money has partnered with FinTech company Trade Ledger to deliver a quicker, more user-friendly experience for business customers applying for lending.
Truebill hauls in $45m to develop its personal finance app
Personal finance app provider Truebill raised $45m in Series D funding giving it a valuation of $500m.
Carbon, Visa enter five-year partnership to support payments across Africa
African FinTech Carbon has entered a five-year strategic alliance with Visa to provide digital and physical issuance of Visa cards to its customers on the continent.
BNPL player Zilch secures US market foothold with NepFin purchase
UK buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Zilch has entered an agreement to acquire FinTech startup NepFin as it prepares to enter the US market.
Singapore and Malaysia foster financial synergies with payments linkage
Singapore and Malaysia are set to begin a phased linkage of their two payment systems to support faster transactions between the two countries.
Bill-splitting feature to be piloted on Facebook Messenger
Facebook Messenger is set to test Split Payments, a feature that will let users to share the cost of bills and expenses from within a Messenger group chat.
Embedded payments firm Paytrix scores £5m
Paytrix, an embedded payments company for high-growth vertical software platforms, has bagged £5m in new funding.
Instamojo picks up pre-Series B funding round
Payments provider Instamojo has reportedly raised an undisclosed amount for its pre-Series B led Anypay.
Payment solution for students Get said to raise $3.4m in funding
Get, a payment solution for university students, has reportedly bagged $3.4m in a new round of funding.
UK-founded Transferwise expands into the US with Novo and Stanford Credit Union partnerships
The British FinTech unicorn Transferwise is going across the pond to offer its international payments technology to American customers.