All articles by Vidya Sagar Maddela

Vidya Sagar Maddela

Italian lender Unicredit fined $3.1m over data breach case

Italy’s data protection authority (DPA) has fined UniCredit, one of the country’s large-scale retail banks, over a 2018 data breach…

Nationwide Building Society to acquire Virgin Money for £2.9bn

UK-based mutual financial institution Nationwide Building Society has agreed to acquire financial services company Virgin Money for £2.9bn. Under the…

Kiwibank goes live with ACI Worldwide’s cloud-based payments platform

New Zealand’s state-owned bank Kiwibank has gone live with ACI Worldwide’s Enterprise Payments Platform to process all its account-to-account real-time…

JP Morgan joins French payment network Cartes Bancaires CB

US-based investment banking company JP Morgan has joined the French payments network Cartes Bancaires CB, to provide merchant clients with…

ETT | iByond, Knightsbridge enter $1.2bn partnership to boost digitisation

Economic Transformation Technologies (ETT) | iByond and Knightsbridge Group have entered a $1.2bn partnership, to advance digitisation and fintech solutions…

TrueNorth, Brim partner to provide credit card-as-a-service platform

US-based digital banking solutions provider TrueNorth has teamed up with Brim Financial, a Canada-based provider of next-generation credit card-as-a-service platform.…

Mastercard, MTN Fintech partner to boost mobile payments in Africa

MTN Group Fintech, the financial services arm of African mobile network operator MTN Group, has partnered with Mastercard to launch…

Southern States Bancshares to acquire CBB Bancorp to expand in Georgia

Southern States Bancshares, the holding company for Southern States Bank, has agreed to acquire CBB Bancorp, the holding company for…

Barclays to sell $1.1bn US credit card debt to Blackstone

British lender Barclays has agreed to sell around $1.1bn of credit card debt in the US to Blackstone Credit &…

United Fintech secures strategic investments from BNP Paribas and Citi

BNP Paribas and Citi become the first institutional investors in United Fintech – the neutral Digital Transformation Platform, as part…