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| 12.09.2024 | PE giant EQT explores $2b sale of payment firm Banking Circle | Private equity firm EQT is exploring a sale of its majority stake in Banking Circle, hoping any deal would value the payments processor at more than $2 billion, including debt, several people familiar with the matter said.
EQT is working on... |
| 12.06.2024 | XTransfer and Banking Circle Revolutionize Cross-Border Payments | A strategic partnership between XTransfer and Banking Circle is set to transform payment capabilities for importers and exporters in Europe and the Middle East. The collaboration aims to reduce costs and processing times for cross-border pa... |
| 11.06.2024 | XTransfer and Banking Circle Announce Strategic Partnership | Collaboration Set to Boost Payment Capabilities for Importers/Exporters in Europe and the Middle East
HONG KONG, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- XTransfer, the World's Leading & China's No.1 B2B Cross-Border Trade Payment Platform, and Ba... |
| 11.06.2024 | XTransfer and Banking Circle Announce Strategic Partnership | Collaboration Set to Boost Payment Capabilities for Importers/Exporters in Europe and the Middle East
HONG KONG, June 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- XTransfer, the World's Leading & China's No.1 B2B Cross-Border Trade Payment Platform, and Ba... |
| 08.06.2023 | Technology For Technology’s Sake Is The Downfall Of The CIO | Michel André is CIO of Banking Circle, the payments bank. |
| 29.03.2023 | Startup Showcase: Banking Circle – Next-Generation Financial Infrastructure for Global Banking Services | Banking Circle is a fully licensed bank based in Luxembourg, offering its Members the capability to make and receive cross-border transfers in seconds at a low cost. The company is a next-generation provider of mission-critical financial se... |
| 21.02.2023 | Nurturing Tech Talent: Lessons From Scandinavia | Michel André is CIO of Banking Circle, the payments bank. |
| 09.02.2023 | Payment Service Providers Aren’t Going Far Enough to Support Shift to E-Commerce: Report | A new insight report – The perfect payment partner? What merchants are looking for from their PSPs – from Banking Circle, the next generation technology-led Payments Bank, suggests that the services currently “offered by Payment Service Pro... |
| 15.12.2022 | Banking Circle Announces Appointment of Jim Hagemann Snabe to Group’s Advisory Board | Banking Circle Group is pleased to announce that Jim Snabe will become the Chairperson of its Advisory Board.
Jim Snabe will work closely with Banking Circle Group CEO & Co- founder, Anders la Cour, and the majority shareholder EQT VIII... |
| 31.10.2022 | Banking Circle Is Reportedly Settling Over 10% of Europe’s B2C E-Commerce Flow | Banking Circle S.A. is set to help US payments providers expand out of the domestic market with low-cost and fast cross-border payments across 25 currencies.
Underlining the momentum it has gained as an alternative to correspondent banking ... |
| 06.10.2022 | Disrupting The Payments Landscape: How Messaging Schemes Will Transform Request to Pay | 0 shares
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Sarah Barslund Lauridsen, Head of Product & Solutions at Banking Circle explores…
Request to Pay (R2P) is proving to be one of the most exciting technologies in the payments sphere, drastically en... |
| 06.07.2022 | Banks Are Increasingly Embracing Crypto As It Moves into the Mainstream | The past year has seen cryptocurrency adoption and trading surge. Total transaction reached US$15.8 trillion in 2021, up 567% from 2020, and the number of crypto holders has increased to an estimated 300 million, indicating that digital cur... |
| 01.06.2022 | Banking Circle Ecosystem Addresses “Rebundling” of Financial Services | Money20/20 Europe will see the “convergence of complementary financial services” applications in the Banking Circle ecosystem.
A technology-agnostic platform underpinned by an account infrastructure from which a range of financial services ... |
| 27.03.2022 | Igson Capital AG Extends Infrastructure for Firms with Assistance from Banking Circle | Swiss financial services provider, Igson Capital AG, is enhancing its IBAN offer for firms by working in partnership with technology-first payments bank, Banking Circle.
Utilizing Banking Circle Virtual IBAN, Igson Capital AG will also aim ... |
| 03.03.2022 | Poland’s Igoria Trade SA Extends Multicurrency Infrastructure with Assistance from Banking Circle | European payment institution, Igoria Trade SA, is enhancing its multicurrency IBAN capabilities by “working in partnership” with technology-first payments bank, Banking Circle.
Utilizing Banking Circle Virtual IBAN, Igoria Trade will also “... |
| 04.02.2022 | This Week in European Tech: new unicorns in Vienna, Oslo and Dublin, MariaDB and GP Bullhound go SPAC, interesting acquisitions by Meta, Glovo, Canva and Withings, and more | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 120 tech funding deals worth over €2 billion, and over 35 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
As... |
| 06.12.2021 | B2B Cross-Border Payment Provider, Verto, Partners with Payments Fintech Banking Circle | B2B cross-border payment provider, Verto, has teamed up with payments bank, Banking Circle, in order to streamline global payments for its customers.
Utilizing the Banking Circle Virtual IBAN solution, alongside access to Banking Circle’s d... |
| 01.11.2021 | Global B2B Non-Cash Transactions Set to Increase at 10.2% CAGR to Reach Almost 200B Transfers by 2025: Report | The World Payments Report from Capgemini has looked into the major trends, drivers, opportunities, and risks that are transforming the financial services sector.
The report mainly focuses on the beginning of a new era, called ‘Payments 4.X’... |
| 02.10.2021 | Instant Payments Volume to Surge 470% in 5 Years, CBDCs May Also Streamline Cross-Border Transactions: Report | There have been many new developments in the banking and Fintech space with new research predicting growth across various areas of the fast-evolving sector.
The team at payments specialist Banking Circle notes that they were recognized at M... |
| 16.09.2021 | Real Time or Instant B2B Payments Are Being Offered, but Service Needs Improvements: Report | The team at Banking Circle, an established payments service provider, has looked into how collaboration can “speed up the real-time payments revolution for corporates.”
As noted in a blog post by Banking Circle:
“For retail customers, insta... |
| 15.08.2021 | Dave Burns, CRO at Napier AI, Says There’s Huge Potential for What Artificial Intelligence Can Bring to AML | In the fast-evolving digital economy, money laundering and financial crime have been increasing quite rapidly as regulation and banking processes struggle to address the rise in “criminal innovation.”
Because of these developments, financia... |
| 03.08.2021 | Someone’s going to hurt from the streaming wars. Blackstone’s plan? Bet on said wars. | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
Despite a boom in streaming services during the pandemic, most still agree that the battle betwee... |
| 03.08.2021 | Banking Circle eyes $5.9B valuation | Cross-border payments company Banking Circle is looking to raise around $500 million at a $5.9 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported. EQT bought a majority stake in Luxembourg-based Banking Circle in 2018 for a reported $300 million.
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| 31.07.2021 | Banking, Fintech Report Highlights UK’s Fast-Growing Financial Tech Space, while Challenges Include Centralized Cloud Providers | Payments specialist Banking Circle notes in a recent update on the payments, banking and Fintech space that there have been record-level investments in the UK’s vibrant Fintech sector, with $5.7 billion of VC invested across 317 deals so fa... |
| 24.07.2021 | Payments Fintech Banking Circle Chooses European Firm SIA to Provide Instant Payments | Banking Circle, the Payments Bank for the digital economy, has chosen SIA, an established European hi-tech firm in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, in order to introduce its instant payments service in Europe ... |
| 09.07.2021 | Payment Service Provider Paymaster24 Chooses Banking Circle to Enhance Digital Payments Platform | Full-service payment service provider (PSP) of local digital payment solutions, Paymaster24, has reportedly chosen Banking Circle in order to improve its existing service proposition for merchants. Importantly, the collaboration with Bankin... |
| 14.06.2021 | B4B Payments, a Global Prepaid Payments Firm, to Leverage Digital Infrastructure from Banking Circle | B4B Payments, a multinational prepaid payments provider, has chosen Banking Circle to offer payments infrastructure to support its corporate banking services.
Offering prepaid solutions to businesses for over 15 years, Financial Conduct Aut... |
| 23.04.2021 | Safenetpay, an E-Money Institution Authorized by UK FCA, Partners with Payments Specialist Banking Circle | One-stop business payment solution provider, Safenetpay, has partnered with payments specialist, Banking Circle, to enhance its international payment offering.
By utilizing Banking Circle’s multi-currency accounts, SEPA and SWIFT transactio... |
| 21.04.2021 | Anders la Cour: How Industries Are Anchored By Legacy Tech | 0 shares
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In November 2020, Banking Circle surveyed 300 senior decision makers at banks across Europe. Our aim was to discover the challenges banks face serving customers in the new digital age and how they inte... |
| 17.04.2021 | Netherlands based Payment Services Provider Online Payment Platform Selects Banking Circle to Help it Support Global Marketplace | Earlier this week, Online Payment Platform, the Netherlands based payment services provider, chose Banking Circle to help it support global marketplaces
As confirmed in a release, Online Payment Platform selected payments specialist and lic... |
| 04.04.2021 | Financial Infrastructure Developer Banking Circle Reveals it’s Now Fully Cloud based, Shares Other Fintech Industry Updates | The team at Banking Circle, a leading financial infrastructure developer, notes that as the first quarter of 2021 comes to an end, anti-money laundering or AML measures have been “a key focus in the industry.”
The company writes in a blog p... |
| 28.02.2021 | Banks Must Invest in Digital Transformation and Need to Think About Deployment of Fintechs and Value-Added Services, Industry Exec Says | Banking Circle, a financial infrastructure developer, notes that digitalization “dramatically accelerated” in order to address the challenges of 2020.
Banking Circle writes in a blog post that having had to innovate (and fast) due to the so... |
| 10.01.2021 | Financial Infrastructure Developer Banking Circle Reveals that Direct Debit has Facilitated 78 Million Payments, Valued at £1.3 Trillion | Banking Circle, a financial infrastructure developer, reveals that one of the most notable observations from last year was the resilience that so many businesses had shown during the unprecedented socioeconomic uncertainty created by the CO... |
| 29.05.2020 | 65% of online retailers in Europe needed extra finance | Two thirds of online merchants in Europe have needed extra finance in the past two years. Loans carried out after the outbreak of the corona virus aren’t included in this statistic. Online merchants need a loan the most for buying equipment... |
| 23.09.2019 | Banking Circle calls for financial inclusion for SMEs | Financial services infrastructure provider Banking Circle has launched its latest research paper at Sibos 2019, looking at how banks can improve financial inclusion for SMEs, reports Jane Connolly.
In a follow-up to June’s white paper, Fina... |
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| - | Amsterdam’s B2B Buy Now Pay Later specialist Biller acquired by Banking Circle | Focusing on business invoices, Amsterdam’s ai-powered BNPL platform Biller has been acquired by EQT-Ventures owned Banking Circle. Post-acquisition, Biller will continue to operate as an independent entity, now just under the Banking Circle... |
| - | This Week in European Tech: new unicorns in Vienna, Oslo and Dublin, MariaDB and GP Bullhound go SPAC, interesting acquisitions by Meta, Glovo, Canva and Withings, and more | Happy Friday!
This week, the Tech.eu research team tracked more than 120 tech funding deals worth over €2 billion, and over 35 exits, M&A transactions, and rumours, and related news stories across Europe, including Russia and Turkey.
As... |
| - | B4B Payments acquired by Banking Circle | Offering corporate payments and card solutions to manage and simplify payroll, London-headquartered B4B Payments has been acquired by EQT-Ventures owned Banking Circle. Subject to a standard regulatory approval process, B4B will remain inde... |
| - | How Can Banks Get On the Crypto Bandwagon Safely? | The institutionalization of digital assets marches on, with stablecoins providing an entry route that addresses some of market fears. Confirmation of this has come from a bank that handles over 10% of Europe’s B2C payment volumes, which ann... |
