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Amazon launches UK home insurance comparison site

Amazon has introduced an online home insurance comparison service in the UK, signing up three of the country's largest providers as participants.

19 October 2022

Company announcement/payments

Ebury enrols in Amazon's Payment Service Provider Programme

Ebury, a global fintech, is delighted to announce that it has become a member of Amazon’s Payment Service Provider Program meaning that sellers using Amazon sites can continue to collect payments in different regions and currencies through Ebury’s platform.

04 October 2022

News/payments

Amazon and Affirm bring BNPL payments to Canada

Amazon and Affirm are extending their buy now, pay later partnership to Canada, enabling shoppers to pay for their purchases in instalments.

26 September 2022

News/cloud

UK communications watchdog launches cloud competition probe

Ofcom has announced its probe into cloud service providers Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The investigation will look into these providers, which generate around 81% of revenues in UK public cloud, to ensure the market is working properly and not limiting innovation or growth.

23 September 2022

News/crypto

ECB taps CaixaBank and Amazon for digital euro prototypes

The European Central Bank has picked five partners - including CaixaBank and Amazon - to help it develop a digital euro prototype.

16 September 2022

Finextra TV/cloud

Mainframe Modernisation: The Cloud Shift

Bjoern Langmack, Global App Modernization & Migration leader, Deloitte and Steve Steuart, Global Head of Mainframe Migration and Modernization, AWS, discuss the steps needed before deciding to modernize mainframes on the cloud, why now is the right time to modernize, how is the industry responding, and some of the key challenges to migrating and modernizing mainframe workloads.

11 July 2022

News/payments

Amazon Egypt rolls out BNPL options

Amazon has collaborated with Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech platform, vaIU, to launch affordable payment options for Amazon Egypt.

04 July 2022

Finextra TV/cloud

Mainframe modernisation: Overcoming hurdles to achieve agility

For mainframe modernisation to be successful, financial institutions must remedy industry challenges that have permeated the space for several years. Steve Steuart - Global Head of Mainframe Migration and Modernization, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Keval Mehta - FS Cloud Lead, Accenture, discuss how financial institutions can best develop their mainframe modernisation strategies and what the digital endgame looks like.

29 June 2022

Company announcement/payments