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Computop, a global payment processor, has extended its partnership with Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), to support omnichannel payments in Eastern Europe. The expanded partnership is expected to provide the merchants, who are connected to the Computop Paygate payment platform, with...

JCB International, a subsidiary of Japanese credit card company JCB has extended its partnership with Banco Santander’s subsidiary Santander España Merchant Services, to additionally support online exchange between JCB cardmembers and the bank’s e-commerce merchants. The merchant partners of Banco...

Private equity firm Hg has agreed to invest $1bn in Hyperion Insurance Group, an insurance intermediary, whose enterprise value has now reached nearly $5bn with the investment. Hyperion is Hg’s sixth investment in the wider sector in the last five...

UK-based banking and financial services firm Standard Chartered has completed the first cross border live transaction on blockchain enabled trading platform Trusple. Trusple is a digital international trade and financial service platform launched by AntChain, the blockchain-based technology solution of...

US-based financial services firm American Express and E-commerce firm Amazon are offering co-branded credit cards for small businesses in the UK. The co-branded cards, Amazon Business American Express Card and the Amazon Business Prime American Express Card, offer flexible benefits...

UBS joins forces with Banco do Brasil to launch new investment banking JV.  Banco do Brasil (BB) said that a proposed investment banking joint venture (JV) in South America between its subsidiary BB-Banco de Investimento (BB-BI) and UBS is...

Tata AIA Life Insurance has announced a new facility that promises to process life insurance claim pay-outs within four hours of registering them. “Tata AIA Life’s Express Claims within four hours is the fastest claims pay-out by any life insurer...