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Ecommpay shortlisted twice at prestigious UK awards

3 days ago
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Ecommpay secures double shortlist at UK FinTech Awards for its hosted payouts solution and rising star compliance leader Alpa Jotangia.
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EarnIn tops 1m Live Pay uses as real-time wages grow

4 days ago
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EarnIn says US workers have made over 1m Live Pay transactions since July 2025, underscoring rising demand for real-time access to wages.
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Bilder taps xpate for instant card funding across borders

4 days ago
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Bilder integrates xpate's card top-ups to offer 24/7 instant multi-currency account funding for cross-border customers and businesses.
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Revolut seeks US bank charter & appoints new US CEO

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Revolut seeks a US national bank charter and names Cetin Duransoy as US chief, sharpening its push into regulated American banking.
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Bitget pushes Web3 gender inclusion with Blockchain4Her

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Bitget launches a global Blockchain4Her drive for International Women's Day, pushing gender inclusion and women's leadership in Web3.
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Q4 upgrades IR sites to boost visibility in AI search

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Q4 adds AI-focused optimisation to investor relations sites, helping listed firms surface verified disclosures in answer engines like ChatGPT.
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Ecommpay hosts London fintech event for women leaders

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Ecommpay to host London fintech forum on how money access, careers and care shape women's leadership for International Women's Day 2026.
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Omnissa adds Board Directors & new HR Chief for growth

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Omnissa appoints two Board Directors and a new HR Chief as it targets its next phase of growth in the AI-driven digital workspace market.
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ACI backs UK banks' push for sovereign payment rails

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ACI backs UK banks' drive for sovereign payment rails to cut reliance on Visa and Mastercard and bolster geopolitical resilience.
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Ecommpay leader wins Women in Risk & Compliance award

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Ecommpay's fraud and compliance head Marija Solovjova wins Women in Risk & Compliance honour at 2026 FinTech Week Awards in Dubai.
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Gr4vy adds Sardine tools to unify fraud & payments

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Gr4vy integrates Sardine fraud and AML tools into its payments orchestration platform, offering merchants unified risk and routing in one layer.
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Nium adds three C suite leaders to drive global growth

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Nium strengthens global payments push with new chiefs for risk, technology and marketing as AI, stablecoins and regulation reshape the sector.
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Ecommpay recognised among CNBC's top UK fintechs list

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Ecommpay has been named in the CNBC/Statista Top 150 UK FinTechs, highlighting London's enduring strength as a global payments hub.
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Mastercard enlists Schmeichel to back Click to Pay

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Mastercard taps Peter Schmeichel to front a UK push for tokenised Click to Pay checkouts, aiming to end manual card entry by 2030.
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Exactly.com links with GP Solutions on travel payments

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Exactly.com and GP Solutions team up to embed streamlined payments into travel platforms, targeting simpler, cheaper options for smaller firms.
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Super Bowl betting to drive surge in UK card disputes

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UK payment and betting firms warned to brace for surge in regret-driven card disputes in wake of late-night Super Bowl wagering.
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Analytic Partners named Forrester Wave Leader for 2026

Fri, 30th Jan 2026
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Analytic Partners named a Leader in Forrester's 2026 marketing measurement Wave after topping current offering and scoring highly on strategy.
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Kani & TransactPay expand data partnership for scale

Fri, 23rd Jan 2026
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Kani deepens its tie-up with TransactPay, adding Data-as-a-Service to streamline global payments data as the issuer ramps up scale.
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Google unveils open UCP standard for AI-driven shopping

Tue, 20th Jan 2026
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Google has launched an open Universal Commerce Protocol to standardise AI shopping flows across search, apps, merchants and payments.
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Cloudflare buys Astro framework, pledges open future

Tue, 20th Jan 2026
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Cloudflare snaps up the Astro web framework, vowing to keep it open source while tying it closer to its performance and developer platform.