All articles by Refna Tharayil
Refna Tharayil
CountPlus acquires Affinia Financial Advisers from TAL
With the acquisition, CountPlus anticipates to benefit from the deep risk advice capability, which will enable the growth of its risk advice capability and revenues
Security Bank to transform real-time payment with ACI Worldwide
With ACI Worldwide’s cloud-native real-time payment platform, Security Bank is expected to offer safe services across customers, merchants and corporate payments with emerging and new payment types
Empower introduces digital-first Personal Wealth division
With the launch of its Personal Wealth division, the financial planning, investing, and advice firm intends to expand its consumer wealth management
Fiserv launches new fraud mitigation solution
The new modular solution provides merchants with customisable controls based on their risk appetite as well as simplified access to chargeback management, transaction scoring, and other capabilities
Fawry partners with XPay to offer FawryPay reference code service
Established in 2018, Xpay supports its individual and corporate partners to plan and manage their finances through a variety of digital solutions
Raiffeisen launches RaiPay with Entrust digital card solution in Austria
With the introduction of the RaiPay app to the Austrian market, Android device users are expected to digitise their bank cards instantly for contactless payments
BP pulse to develop EV hubs across Europe with APCOA
Through the digital integration of the BP pulse and the APCOA Connect app in the UK and the APCOA Flow app across Europe, the two firms aim to collaborate to deliver a more comfortable customer journey
Archway launches banking platform for digital consumer interactions
The funding round was led by venture capital firm Madrona and Seattle-headquartered regional bank WaFd
CD&R to take Focus Financial Partners private in $7bn deal
As per the terms of the agreement, stockholders of the US-based publicly-listed firm will be paid $53 per share in cash by CD&R
Westpac extends partnership with AWS to boost cloud capabilities
Through its expanded partnership, Westpac intends to leverage AWS capabilities including data analytics, machine learning, and compute to expedite the bank’s digital transformation, achieve cost efficiencies, and personalise its banking applications