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Italy s EasyPol taps Salt Edge for account aggregation 2 hours ago
Source: Salt Edge EasyPol, an Italy-based online payments app, chooses Salt Edge, leader in developing open banking solutions, to upgrade its offering with PSD2-powered services and create a full-scale personal and business financial management platform for their Italian users. Digitalisation becomes a new economic reality across Europe and the appetite for forward-looking innovative products amongst Italian users is gaining momentum. Italy has been going through a progressive digitalisation reform at all levels, including both public and private institutions. To contribute to the current innovation wave, EasyPol is committed to upgrading its platform and offering swift assistance to serve the whole spectrum of their cust
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QED Investors leads $20 million round in Payhawk 3 hours ago Payments and expense management platform Payhawk has raised a Series A $20 million financing round led by QED Investors. Existing investor Earlybird Digital East, which led a $3.6 million seed round in March 2020, is also contributing fresh capital.
Payhawk acts as a one-stop-shop for integrated payments, invoices and expense management tools for finance teams that can serve businesses operating in 30 countries.
The company has posted 10x growth in 2020, and doubled its revenue in Q1 of 2021. Its customer base consists of a mix of fast-growing and multinational companies including LuxAir, Lotto24, Viking Life, ATU, Gtmhub, MacPaw and By Miles.
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FintechOS raises $60m 2 hours ago FintechOS, a European startup promising a low-code approach to helping financial institutions quickly and painlessly go digital, has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round led by Draper Esprit. Earlybird Digital East, Gapminder Ventures, LAUNCHub Ventures, and OTB Ventures joined the round for London-headquartered FintechOS.
As established banks and insurers look to accelerate their digitisation programmes in the face of growing competition from fintech upstarts, they are often faced with lengthy and laborious rip and replace strategies that require high levels of technology expertise and investment.
CEO, ADMA Jodie Sangster has been the CEO of the Association for Data-driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA) since 2011 and is also chairperson for the International Federation of Direct Marketing Associations (IFDMA). She has worked across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific for 14 years with a focus on data-driven marketing and privacy, and began her career as a lawyer in London specialising in data protection. Her resume includes senior positions at Acxiom Asia-Pacific and the Direct Marketing Association in New York.
Virtual Reality (VR) is no longer a theoretical consumer proposition. This year’s CES and SXSW were awash with VR games and applications with Gartner estimating 25 million headsets will be sold by 2018. And, as I am writing this, Sony has announced an October launch for a PlayStation virtual reality headset that could blow out these predictions and take it to the mass market. And let’s not forget about the advent of cardboard VR headsets and an expected re
BRI a public road for public good By Xie Laihui | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-04-20 11:33 The venue of Boao Forum for Asia is seen in South China s Hainan province. [Photo/Xinhua]
Addressing the Boao Forum for Asia through video link on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping said the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a public road open to all, not a private path owned by one single party.
By 2030, Belt and Road projects could help lift 7.6 million people from extreme poverty and 32 million people from moderate poverty across the world, Xi said, citing a World Bank report.
“We will act in the spirit of openness and inclusiveness as we work with all willing participants to build the BRI into a pathway to poverty alleviation and growth, which will contribute positively to the common prosperity of humankind,” he said.