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Banco Santander's PagoNxt to expand merchant services business across Europe

Banco Santander’s payment fintech, PagoNxt, is launching its merchant payments business in Europe under the Getnet brand.

26 July 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Santander introduces receivables lockbox for healthcare clients

Santander Bank, N.A. (“Santander Bank” or “Santander”) today announced that its Commercial Banking division is collaborating with Revenue Management Solutions (“RMS”), a healthcare remittance provider, to offer an end-to-end receivables lockbox product for its healthcare clients.

22 July 2021

Company announcement/payments

Santander begins roll out new cash management platform with Infosys Finacle

Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY) and Santander UK, today announced the roll out of Santander UK's international cash management platform as part of the bank's ongoing digital transformation programme.

21 July 2021

Company announcement/wholesale

Mouro Capital leads €16M funding round in e-commerce fulfilment platform byrd

Mouro Capital, a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses and backed by Banco Santander, has led a €16 million ($19 million) founding round in the tech-driven digital logistics and fulfilment platform byrd.

12 July 2021

Company announcement/startups

Santander's Mouro Capital lead $16 million round in digital freight forwarder Newport

Mouro Capital, a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses and backed by Banco Santander, has invested in Mexican digital freight forwarder Nowports’ $16 million Series A funding round.

01 July 2021

Company announcement/markets

Santander Bank Polska goes live with Horizon

Horizon Software (Horizon), provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology for the global capital markets, have today announced that, Santander Bank Polska, one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Poland, has successfully deployed Horizon’s Platform for Market Making connecting to the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).

01 July 2021

News/payments

EBAday 2021: Modernisation, a catalyst for payments utopia

With day two now under our belt, we are only just beginning to digest the eyewatering number of insights shared across six panel sessions, two roundtables, a lively chatroom forum and of course, non-stop networking on the EBAday platform.

29 June 2021

News/crypto

Morgan Stanley co-leads $48m funding round for blockchain player Securitize

Digital asset securities firm Securitize has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by funds managed by Morgan Stanley Tactical Value and Blockchain Capital.

21 June 2021

News/security

Santander pushes back at Which? over APP scam reimbursement rates

Santander has pushed back against calls from Which? for banks to publish figures on the proportion of customers they refund for authorised push payment (APP) fraud, arguing that looking at reimbursement rates in isolation could present a "misleading" picture.

08 June 2021

News/startups

Colombian BNPL player Addi lands $65M in funding and a strategic relationship with Banco Santander

Bogota-based buy now, pay later platform Addi has secured $65 million in debt and equity funding and formed a strategic relationship with Banco Santander.

27 May 2021

Company announcement

Santander Bank Polska introduces new e-banking platform for large companies and corporations

Enhanced notification centre, customizable dashboard, group work and automation of routine tasks - these are just some of the features of the new online banking system for companies that have so far used iBiznes24 in Santander Bank Polska.

20 May 2021

News/retail

Santander apologises to customers over weekend down time

Santander has apologised to customers after a widespread outage over the weekend locked UK customers out of their accounts.

17 May 2021