Meet the World’s Top FinTech Voices You Need to Follow
Hey Payments Fanatic!
Favikon just dropped its yearly list of top creators to follow on LinkedIn, including a global Top 10 for the payments industry.
I’ve already met quite a few of them here in Vegas at Money20/20 (Day 1 was wild). Except for Simon Taylor, who couldn’t make it after reportedly losing his passport 🤣
Here’s the lineup:
#5 Arthur Bedel
#6 Jack Zhang
#7 Simon Taylor
#10 Sandra Mianda
Now, why stop at 10? I asked myself the same thing a while back, so I found a list of 200 people shaping the FinTech space !
Check it out and give them all a follow to stay ahead of what’s happening in FinTech.
Because let’s be honest: creators and thought leaders have become the go-to source for insights in this industry.
And if you’re a brand looking to reach the ecosystem through these new channels, I might just have something unique for you!
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Enjoy the rest of today’s news lineup, and I’ll be back tomorrow with a short update straight from Vegas!
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NEWS
🇬🇧 Ecommpay recognized for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Harrington Starr Top 1% Employer Awards. Key initiatives recognized by the award include the delivery of a range of training programs for colleagues and merchants, which enable them to operate with inclusivity at the forefront. This includes Neurodiversity awareness training and unconscious bias and inclusive recruitment training.
🇺🇸 Modern Treasury acquires Beam to expand instant payments leadership with stablecoins. The acquisition adds important capabilities and leadership to Modern Treasury. Beam’s stablecoin orchestration technology accelerates Modern Treasury’s roadmap for real-time, global payments.
🇮🇳 UPI introduces ‘Pay With Mutual Fund’ for instant transactions. This allows users to make real-time transactions directly from their liquid mutual fund holdings, eliminating the need to transfer funds to a bank account first. The feature marks a global first in retail financial technology innovation.
🇺🇸 Zip US expands partnership with Stripe to accelerate merchant growth. With a no-code setup, merchants can easily enable Zip directly from their Stripe Dashboard, streamlining integration and enabling Zip’s pay-in-installments payment method in their Stripe checkout experience.
🇺🇸 Affirm expands partnership with Worldpay for Platforms with embedded payment integration. With this integration, platforms will now have the ability to offer Affirm as a payment method to their merchants, giving eligible end customers more flexible, transparent ways to pay.
🇨🇴 Thunes enables instant payment access to and from Colombia with the new real-time payment system Bre-B. Adding Bre-B capabilities to its Direct Global Network is an example of Thunes’ support for central banks and regulators modernising national payment systems and expanding access to financial products.
🇺🇸 CardFlight and Worldpay bring tap-to-pay on iPhone to SwipeSimple merchants. With Tap to Pay on iPhone, at checkout, merchants will simply prompt the customer to hold their contactless payment method near the merchant’s iPhone, and the payment will be securely completed using NFC technology.
🇧🇷 Juspay integrates Mastercard’s click-to-pay in Brazil, bringing faster and safer one-click checkouts to millions of consumers. Click to Pay enables online shoppers to link their cards to their Mastercard account once and enjoy seamless one-click checkout across merchants without repeatedly entering card details or passwords.
🇨🇴 The Ministry of Finance proposes a 1.5% withholding tax on digital payments and raises concerns about the future of Bre-B. The measure, which, according to the office, seeks to equalize the tax treatment of cards with other payment methods, has sparked concern among experts, unions, and merchants.
🇺🇸 PayNearMe enhances PayXM™ with rollout of AI-powered Intelligent Virtual Agent (IVA). Fully integrated into the PayXM™ platform, IVA extends PayNearMe’s vision of Payment Experience Management by enabling organizations to automate and personalize inbound and outbound communication across voice, text, and chat.
🇬🇧 Standard Chartered partners with Dandelion to enhance real-time cross-border payments. This collaboration will enable the Bank to provide clients with a broader range of destination currencies, reaching both bank account and digital wallet endpoints.
🇬🇧 Corpay names Matt Hanks as Vice President Marketing for UK Fleet. The creation of this leadership role signals a stronger focus on marketing within Corpay’s UK operations, ensuring that brand, customer engagement, and market growth are at the center of the company’s strategy.
🇺🇸 Clerq secures $21M in funding to power the future of high-ticket payments. The Series A will support Clerq’s continued investment in expanding product capabilities and addressing additional verticals, strengthening the company’s position as a driving force behind the adoption of account-to-account payments in the U.S.
🇮🇳 Aussie FinTech Findi to acquire climate tech start-up Sphere for up to $2.93M. The acquisition supports Findi's broader growth strategy as the company prepares for a planned IPO on the Bombay Stock Exchange in FY27 and works toward obtaining Payments Bank status in India.
🇺🇸 Proof collaborates with Visa to enable verified identities to help secure transactions across high-value or high-risk payments, digital commerce, agreements, and banking. The collaboration will combine the power of Visa’s payment network with Proof’s identity authorization network.
🇬🇧 Clay selects GoCardless to streamline loan disbursements and repayments at scale. Clay now uses GoCardless to unify its entire payment process onto a single, scalable platform, leveraging GoCardless’s Direct Debit capability to collect repayments and Outbound Payments, the FinTech’s newly launched disbursement product, to pay out loans.
🇺🇸 U.S. Bancorp launches digital assets division to boost blockchain innovation. It will also support custody and settlement services for cryptocurrencies, allowing the bank to serve both institutional and corporate clients looking for compliant digital-asset exposure.
🇦🇪 UPay to leverage Tencent Cloud to enhance its global crypto payments network. The deal is primarily about enhancing the user experience on its payment networks, UPay shared in a press release, but it also hints at the company’s intentions to scale adoption of its crypto cards globally.
🇺🇸 nbkc bank expands banking-as-a-service suite with Interchecks to deliver faster and more flexible payments. This collaboration enhances nbkc's BaaS platform by integrating Interchecks' instant payment technology, enabling FinTechs and non-bank innovators to deliver seamless "push-to-card" disbursements, sending funds directly to customers' debit cards in real-time.
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