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Payoneer buys payroll firm Skuad

Cross-border payments firm Payoneer has acquired Singapore-based workforce and payroll management outfit Skuad for $61 million in cash.

09 August 2024

News/people

'Fintech leaders need to be vocal advocates for diversity and inclusion' says PPRO CEO

Pride month is coming to a close, with the main celebrations continuing into this weekend in London. Pride is about much more than parades, parties, and rainbows. It is about the practical process of acceptance and inclusion of LGBTQIA+ identities, even in the fintech workplace.

28 June 2024

News/inclusion

Visa Foundation focused on empowering women entrepreneurs

Visa Foundation is supporting women in growing their small businesses and making them more resilient, increasing economic mobility and creating wealth for themselves.To learn more about the financial inclusion efforts made by the organisation, Finextra spoke to Najada Kumbuli, vice president and head of investments at Visa Foundation.

28 June 2024

News/people

EBAday 2024: Success stories in collaboration

At EBAday 2024 in Lisbon, Finextra’s own Niamh Curran moderated a lunchtime session titled ‘Rising Stars’, with Luca Kotton, platform owner at Investec Bank; John Salter, chief customer officer at ClearBank; Jenny Winther, head of payment schemes at Handelsbanken; and Phoebe Zhou, head of emerging payments, GPS Europe at HSBC, discussing success and industry newcomers.

19 June 2024

News/people

CAB Payments confirms Neeraj Kapur as CEO

Neeraj Kapur has over 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles across retail, corporate and SME banking.

14 June 2024

News/crime

Ex-Citi employee files wrongful termination lawsuit alleging the bank hid data from regulators

A former managing director at Citigroup is suing the bank and COO for unlawful termination on the grounds of allegedly refusing to provide regulators with false information.

24 May 2024

News/inclusion

Economic conditions, energy, cost of living rank highly in ethical risk factors for UK businesses

What is ethical risk? Ethical risk consists of the risks that could impede an organisation’s ability to live up to its ethical values and standards which impact consumer trust, reputation, and financial performance.

26 April 2024

News/markets

BoE forecasting held back by out-of-date tech - Bernanke

The Bank of England has been heavily criticised by a former chairman of the US Federal Reserve for relying on outdated technology for its economic forecasts.

16 April 2024

News/people

Lloyds Bank cuts risk dept headcount

UK high street bank Lloyds Bank is reducing the size of its risk management department because it is seen as a “blocker” to the bank’s “strategic transformation”.

10 April 2024

News/people

Robinhood co-founder steps down

Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder and chief creative officer of online stock trading firm Robinhood, has resigned from the company to "pursue other entrepreneurial interests".

26 March 2024

News/cloud

Danske Bank signs cloud deal with AWS

Denmark’s Danske Bank has signed a multiyear agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as part of a strategy to invest more in cloud technology.

25 March 2024

News/people

Refinitiv veteran Minutella appointed CEO of Data Zoo

Global identity provider Data Zoo has appointed former London Stock Exchange executive Charlie Minutella as CEO.

12 February 2024

News/people

Alba Bank CEO steps down

Rod Ashley has announced he will be stepping down as CEO of Alba Bank after six years.

09 February 2024

News/payments

Worldline cuts 1400 jobs

French payments giant Worldline is axing around 1400 jobs - eight per cent of its workforce - as part of a cost reduction programme.

07 February 2024

News/people

DBS chief Gupta docked millions of dollars in annual salary over outages

DBS chief executive officer Piyush Gupta is to take a 30% pay cut as punishment for a series of disruptive outages that hit the bank's payments and ATM services last year.

07 February 2024

News/people

Ainsworth departs from Open Banking Limited

Alan Ainsworth, policy and strategy director of Open Banking Limited (OBL), is moving on after six years in the role.

07 February 2024

News/people

Virgin Money warns of more job cuts after culling 150 staff in Q1

Virgin Money is to make more job cuts after dropping the axe on 150 positions in the first quarter.

06 February 2024

News/retail

Metro Bank CFO James Hopkinson to step down

Metro Bank has announced its CFO James Hopkinson will leave his role after joining in September 2022.

12 January 2024

News/people

OakNorth appoints Lord Adair Turner as chairman

House of Lords member Lord Turner of Ecchinswell - Jonathan Adair Turner - has experience across Standard Chartered Bank, Siemens UK, Merrill Lynch Europe, and McKinsey.

27 December 2023

News/devops

Fujitsu partners with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation

Sustainable digital transformation company Fujitsu has allied with Palantir Technologies to boost business transformation in Japan and solve societal challenges.

08 December 2023

Human resources