International Finance

Category : Fintech

PCT announces management buyout

PCT Management secures €12million investment to further accelerate growth July 6, 2016: Payment Card Technologies (PCT) announced a management buyout supported by a €12million investment from a European private equity firm.  The transaction provides the company with significant growth development capital and a strong debt free balance sheet for further expansion both in Europe and...

Aldi chooses Verifone for payment devices

Contactless and mobile pay capabilities to bring speed and convenience to Aldi customers July 5, 2016: Verifone announced that it will provide Aldi France with 3,200 payment devices designed to accept all cashless payments including contactless and mobile wallets. Aldi France operates 900 retail locations and is a unit of Group Aldi, a leader in...

Atkins to help clients manage uncertainty in infrastructure delivery

Launches new advisory consulting business June 15, 2016: Atkins announced the launch of a new end-to-end advisory consulting business – Atkins Acuity – that will combine the company’s extensive engineering and master planning capability with new structuring, financing and project preparation expertise. This combination will support international finance institutions, governments, and large corporations through the...

One Rock Capital Partners sells Compass Chemical to Italmatch Chemicals

The deal will help Italmatch Group to consolidate its position June 10, 2016: Ardian portfolio company Italmatch Chemicals, a leading global specialty chemicals group, has acquired 100% of Compass Chemical International, the most important North American independent chemical company active in the production and marketing of phosphonates and additives for water treatment and for the...

PSI-Pay and Kerv to launch contactless payment ring

Users will be able to pay in 38 million locations worldwide June 9, 2016: PSI-Pay and Kerv Wearables have announced that they are partnering up to enable the world’s first contactless payment ring, to be released to the global market. PSI-Pay is one of the UK’s leading regulated Fintech companies, providing digital account and payment...

Zapper comes up with smart payment solution

Enables stores to instantly understand and reward shoppers May 27, 2016: Zapper the fast growing, global data insights and mobile payment platform, has adapted its Pay-at-Counter solution, currently very successful in pre-pay hospitality environments, for convenience retail outlets in the UK. This smart system allows customers a fast alternative to pay for their items and...

TSYS enhances real-time fraud capabilities

Collaboration with Featurespace to provide next-generation detection May 20, 2016: TSYS announced an agreement with Featurespace, a global leader in adaptive behavioural analytics, that will reduce fraud for its clients with a revolutionary machine learning software platform — the ARIC engine — that monitors every individual — one customer at a time — to deliver...

CENX awarded Tier-1 EMEA service provider contract

Exanova Service Intelligence to orchestrate and assure on-demand services May 18, 2016: CENX the global leader of orchestrated service assurance and management solutions for physical and virtualised networks, announced the company has been selected by a Tier-1 global communications service provider, with headquarters in southern Europe, to orchestrate and assure on-demand cloud and data centre...

Drayson Technologies raises £8mn Series B round

Company aims to power Internet of Things devices using recycled wireless energy May 16, 2016: Drayson Technologies Limited, the leading developer of radio frequency (RF) harvesting technology announces the completion of a Series B funding round of £8m led by existing investors Lansdowne Partners and Woodford Investment Management. Existing investors, new investors and staff participated...