Innovator TruNarrative, a leading RegTech platform in the financial crime and compliance sector, today announced a partnership with one of the UK’s latest banking and wealth management apps, ikigai.

Iress today announces that it has integrated its Xplan Mortgage software with criteria search system Knowledge Bank. This integration allows mortgage brokers using Xplan Mortgage to use Knowledge Bank to quickly and easily check the criteria of lenders across the market, making it far easier to source the right mortgage for non-traditional customers. The time saved in checking criteria can then be used to provide value-added services and advice to clients.

 MYbank, a leading online private commercial bank under Ant Financial Services Group, stated in its annual report released today that it has served 20.87 million small and micro businesses in China as of the end of 2019.

As part of the Star Plan launched in June 2018, MYbank has worked with over 400 financial partners to provide business loans to Chinese SMEs as of 2019. 80% of MYbank loan users had previously never received business loans from banks.

In the midst of the global virus pandemic, the mandated shutdown of commercial activity creates significant future risk. But as we recover, banks can play an essential role to rebuild businesses and livelihoods, earning new trust that will help all of us to emerge stronger than ever, says Sanat Rao.

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Scorable has launched its second product release to further enhance the scope and accuracy of its credit risk analysis, helping fixed-income managers make better investment decisions. The company's innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solution enables asset managers to monitor corporate bonds and credit spreads and to anticipate rating changes before they occur or markets price them in. 

Anti-money-laundering pioneers SmartSearch this Sunday achieved 15^th position in the Sunday Times Profit Track list. The list recognises the British companies with the fastest-growing profits over the last three years.

SmartSearch’s success comes on the back of an increase of more than 80% in profits over the past year, and a sixfold rise over the three-year period looked at by the Sunday Times.

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, announced today that Keith Tippell has been appointed as the new Head of Product.

He will be responsible for overseeing CLS’s existing product suite and all new product development in the Settlement and Processing business lines.

PXP Financial, the global expert in acquiring and payment processing, today announces four major new hires. Following a successful expansion into the US earlier in 2020, PXP Financial welcomes Arne Matthias as Chief Operating Officer, and Anschana Caravaca as Head of Gaming to the team. Additionally, Dave Janse joins as Head of Business Development, and Armin Pichler as Head of HR.

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) has named Alison Pain as chief technology officer (CTO) for the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.

Nigerian fintech platform Okra has secured a $1mn pre-seed fundraise from TLcom Ca