Esme Loans, the standalone digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses, has today announced that it has now lent over £70million to UK businesses.

The lender has seen a sustained period of rapid growth in lending to small businesses, with the most recent milestone representing over £20m of lending in the space of four months, an increase of 40% in the lender’s total loan book. At its current trajectory, the provider will have reached lending of £100m before Christmas.

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, today announced the launch of suspicious cryptocurrency transaction alerts in Chainalysis Know Your Transaction (KYT), the real-time anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution for monitoring cryptocurrency transactions. It is the first compliance alerts solution available across 15 cryptocurrencies.

WorldStream, a fast-growing provider of security-focused Infrastructure-as-a-Service hosting solutions with more than 15,000 dedicated servers installed in its company-owned data centers in the Netherlands

Mastercard today announced its partnership with transportation solutions provider Cubic Transportation Systems, and Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works (DTPW) to enable tap-and-go payments at Miami’s Metrorail stations. This service is expected to expand to the Metrobus service later this year, and will benefit millions of travelers who typically use the public transit system in the city.

Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. is a leading provider of technology solutions and payment processing services primarily for the financial services industry.

Factom Protocol, the open-source developer-friendly blockchain platform, has launched 

Serrala, a global provider of software solutions for inbound and outbound payments and automated finance processes, announced its participation at the Sibos Conference 2019 in London on September 23-26. In a pre-event, hosted by Global Finance Magazine on September 25, the B2B fintech will officially receive the award for “Best White Label System Provider – Non-Bank 2019” for its BCrest solutions. 

Serrala will present BCrest and other solutions for corporate payments and banks at booth U138. Focus topics are

Foxley Kingham, Luton-based chartered accountants and business advisers, are delighted to announce the appointment of tax consultant Phil Stevens, who has joined the company in the role of Tax Director.

Phil will provide technical tax support to clients and colleagues and will help to expand both the tax department and Foxley Kingham as a whole. His role will lead the planning and delivery of tax compliance and advisory services and help shape the company’s tax strategy to ensure the firm continues to anticipate client requirements and deliver best practice advice.

When Satoshi Nakamoto solved the Byzantine General's problem in 2008 by inventing the Proof of Work consensus mechanism, not only did the world come to know what is today collectively known as Bitcoin, it received something which triggered a profound and irreversible chain of events. Few of us knew and even fewer dared to imagine that the solution to a mathematical problem would be the key to decipher a myriad of social, economic, and political issues. This is the essence of blockchain.