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Financial Management

BankiFi | July 22, 2022

BankiFi, an embedded banking solutions provider, announced its expansion into North America with the launch of BankiFi Americas. The organization’s growth and expansion into the U.S. market will support the unique digitization and payment modernization requirements of SMBs, while placing financial institutions at the heart of the relationship. Currently, community financial institutions in the U.S. are facing existential threat from fintech platforms, national banks and acco...

Reuters | January 20, 2020

Global direct foreign investment (FDI) dipped slightly around the world last year, hit by massive divestment in Hong Kong and a drop in flows into Britain due to Brexit uncertainty, the United Nations said on Monday. FDI could rise marginally in 2020 on the back of modest growth as trade tensions between China and the United States ease, but geopolitical uncertainties and protectionist pressures are tempering expectations, it said. In 2019, global FDI flows were estimated at $1.39 trillion, down...

Payments

Roxe | December 09, 2021

Roxe, the leading next-generation, open global payment network that uses blockchain to make payments smarter, today announced it has partnered with DocFox to streamline and scale the onboarding for its business customers. Roxe unifies fragmented global payment systems, providing fast, low-cost, peer-to-peer global payments to banks, central banks, payment companies, remittance providers and consumers. With DocFox, Roxe is working to establish an intelligent, automated business onb...

Insurance Business Magazine | February 07, 2020

A new malware is spreading among online banking users, stealing their passwords by disabling any autofill functions their devices might have and forcing them to manually retype their passwords as the malware copies the data. The Metamorfo trojan malware has targeted the users of more than 20 banks across the globe, in countries such as the US, Canada, Peru, Chile, Spain, Brazil, Ecuador and Mexico. ZDNet reported that the attacks were first reported in Brazil, but have since spread to other onli...