Say it with emoji: Circle is here to reshape social payments
Circle Pay wants to make paying your friends as easy as sending a message. We chat to the firm's European MD Mariele Flament about the company's plans in the UK.
Circle Pay wants to make paying your friends as easy as sending a message. We chat to the firm's European MD Mariele Flament about the company's plans in the UK.
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from the world of payments.
Still recovering from the bank holiday and trying to catch up with everything that’s happening in the name of payments and fintech in Europe right now?
Santander is launching a new app that lets customers make international payments using blockchain technology.
There's a huge amount going on in the European payments and fintech startup space right now, which is great news for the industry but makes staying on top of everything challenging at best. With that in mind we've picked out five what we think are the most-interesting stories across the region right now.
An auspicious dinner threw Michael Kent and Ricky Knox together at business school more than a decade ago, laying the foundations of a business partnership that would see the pair create financial tech companies remittance firms Small World FS, Azimo and most recently challenger bank Tandem.
The recent hypothesis that creating economic growth and investment opportunities in many parts of the world is, according to some governments, the responsibility of business – in particular small and medium sized companies (SMEs).
In this guest comment, Tom Hay, head of Payments at Icon Solutions, explores the opportunity for banks to use the clearXchange system as the 'special weapon' against fintech companies such as TransferWise and PayPal's Venmo.
There’s more good news for UK remittance firm Azimo this week as the company announces $15m in new funding in a round led by Japan’s Rakuten as it looks to carve off a bigger chunk of the $600bn global remittance market.
PayPal is flexing its muscle in the online remittance space through its Xoom acquisition, looking to take a bigger share of the money transfer industry as it increasingly heads online.