Technology

Plastiq, a payments solutions provider for small and medium businesses (SMBs), announced that it has closed $75m in series D funding round led by B Capital Group. The funding round also saw participation from previous investors including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla...

As part of the deal, Lloyds Banking Group will deploy various services from Google Cloud to help in its objective of optimisation, modernisation, and improvement of the customer experience Lloyds Banking Group has signed a five-year cloud contract with Google...

UK-based private equity firm Hg, has agreed to acquire stake in smartTrade Technologies, a French electronic trading solutions firm, from Keensight Capital and Pléiade Venture, for an undisclosed amount. Under the transaction agreement, smartTrade CEO and co-founder David Vincent and...

Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, and ZA Bank, the first virtual bank to launch a pilot trial in Hong Kong, announced that the bank is leveraging technology from Fiserv to enable a transformative...

Deutsche Bank announced that it will introduce WeChat (Known as Weixin in mainland China) on its Symphony platform, backing a partnership between Symphony and Tencent to connect Symphony’s community of 450,000 global markets professionals with the WeChat network. The WeChat...

Remember when Equifax got hit with a data breach, and access to just over 147 million customer records got out? With a point like that on the books, it’s no surprise that the company behind it is eagerly looking...

Desjardins Group, the largest federation of credit unions in North America, has furthered its partnership with Montreal-based behavioral banking start-up Exagens by signing a “multi-year” contract to use its technology for its banking assistant. The multi-year contract will see the...