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Company announcement/payments

DBS, Temasek and JPMorgan DLT payments platform Partior makes hires

Today, Partior, a newly-created, blockchain-based clearing and settlement technology platform, announced the appointment of Jason Thompson as its Chief Executive Officer. Based in Singapore, Jason will lead the company to become the technology platform of choice for financial institutions. Partior will innovate and drive efficient cross-border payments and foreign exchange payment vs payment (PvP) settlements using blockchain and smart contract technology.

01 October 2021

News/retail

JP Morgan's UK digital bank ready for launch

JP Morgan is set to open the virtual doors to its long-awaited UK digital retail bank next week.

17 September 2021

News/payments

JP Morgan starts processing US credit cards on Alibaba.com

JP Morgan Merchant Services has begun processing US credit card payments for Alibaba's B2B business unit.

16 September 2021

News/crypto

El Salvador becomes first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender

The central American nation today sets a world-first as it adopts the cryptocurrency for use across all goods and services – even taxes.

07 September 2021

News/markets

JP Morgan leads $50m funding round for investment analytics player Aumni

Aumni, an investment analytics platform that provides the data infrastructure for private capital markets, has closed a $50 million Series B funding round led by JP Morgan.

26 August 2021

News/markets

Wise opens the gate for US investors with ADR program

Wise has opened the door to US-based customers and retail and institutional investors seeking to invest in the company from September 2021.

20 August 2021

News/retail

JP Morgan Private Capital and AmEx invest in Plaid

Open banking platform Plaid has topped up its Series D financing round with investments from JP Morgan Private Capital Growth Equity Partners and Amex Ventures.

17 August 2021

News/cloud

Big banks invest in accounting software firm Freshbooks

Barclays, Bank of Montreal and JPMorgan have joined an US$80.75 million Series E funding round for Toronto-based cloud accounting software firm Freshbooks.

13 August 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments innovation and the benefits cascading down the waterfall model

EBAday 2021 has flown by, and the sessions throughout day three of the event served to build on the momentum from day one and two. Another punchy strategic roundtable addressed the need for industry-wide collaboration to drive payments innovation, while two boisterous chatrooms tackled the weighty subjects of Open Banking, CBDCs and stablecoins.

30 June 2021

Company announcement/payments

JP Morgan ranks #1 European web transaction acquirer

JP Morgan has secured the top spot in the Nilson Report’s European ranking of merchant acquirers in Europe by web-based transactions for the sixth year running.

20 May 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Confluence and JP Morgan expand partnership

Confluence Technologies, Inc. (“Confluence”), a global technology solutions provider delivering innovative products to the worldwide money management industry, and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) today announced a new development in their partnership to deliver a multi-asset portfolio analytics solution.

05 May 2021

News/startups

Israeli fintech Pagaya plans to enter Wall Street at $8 billion

Having registered revenues reflecting $300 million annually for the first three months of 2021, Israel-based startup Pagaya is allegedly planning to enter Wall Street at $8 billion, as well as execute a traditional IPO.

23 April 2021