Personal Finance

Balancing a comfortable daily lifestyle and financial investments is tough and makes planning for a mortgage a minefield. However, with proper tech tools, one can ensure doing so without massively altering current spending.

UK FinTech Tred has teamed with B2B payments firm Nium to be the card-issuer for its new sustainable green debit card.

Australian business banking alternative Zeller has secured A$50m from a recent funding round to supercharge the development of its integrated business banking platform.

Banking and payments software startup Weavr has secured £7m in a seed funding round led by VC firm Headline.

US payments network Rapyd has secured $300m from a Series E funding round led by Target Global.

A trial conducted by central banks in Thailand and Indonesia will see the implementation of cross-border QR payments across both countries.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is teaming with Barbados-based FinTech Bitt to introduce a new central bank digital currency (CBDC) called eNaira.

Mastercard has entered the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market after it unveiled flexible payment platform Installments in the US, the UK and Australia.

A recent study by payments-as-a-service platform Modulr has found 65% of over 65s are open to using new financial services or payment methods for convenience.

Mexican FinTech Stori has secured over $200m in financing following a $125m Series C raise and a $75m debt financing haul.