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Irish co-founded fintech Apexx raises $25m

Company is led by Peter Keenan who previously founded payments app Zapp and was MD at electronics retailer Currys

Apexx is looking to “reinforce its leading position as a payment orchestration platform and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) aggregator”. Picture: Bloomberg

Apexx Global, an Irish co-founded fintech, has secured $25 million (€23.5 million) in investment to further develop its technology and expand its presence in North America.

Established in 2016, the company is led by Peter Keenan, a serial entrepreneur who previously founded Zapp, a smartphone payments app that was available to millions of banking customers in Britain.

Prior to this, Keenan served as head of customer propositions at HSBC, and as managing director of the ...