The Hamburg-based FinTech TrustBills had a very successful year and is now setting the course for the future. This also includes a greater professionalization of existing structures, among other things by creating and filling new strategic positions. The first new addition this year is Hoi Fung (38), who as Head of Sales will be responsible for the sale of all existing and future products. Mr. Fung will join TrustBills in March this year. 

Identity Document Experts TrustID and Financial crime platform TruNarrative join forces to deliver expert document review into firms’ onboarding strategies.

Global RegTech company, TruNarrative has announced a new partnership with TrustID, to integrate their expert document review service into the TruNarrative platform. Enabling TruNarrative customers to utilise the industry expertise that the TrustID team bring.

Fingerprint Cards AB (Fingerprints™) today announces its slim mobile sensor, FPC1541, has been successfully evaluated in line with the EMV® Consumer Device Cardholder Verification Methods (CDCVM) Security Requirements. This is the first announced fingerprint sensor for mobile devices to achieve this approval, demonstrating the quality, security and performance of Fingerprints’ sensor when used t

The UK economy, particularly small companies, are currently facing the twin challenges of Brexit and the pandemic. The FCA (the Financial Conduct Authority) and FSB (Federation of Small Business) have both published figures this month that show the alarming impact on SMEs (see below).  Whilst the Government recognise that it is a challenging year and are helping with grants, they do not appear to have recognised a distortion in the market, caused by Brexit, that is affecting one of the UK’s most important sectors.

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, today released a new e-book titled “Five Ways to Comply Smarter with Financial Regulation.”

Integral, a leading FX technology provider, announced today that IS Investment, Turkey’s largest investment bank, has extended its use of Integral’s trading technology and MT4 Bridge solutions to expand their products and services.

Marc Levin, former CEO of CFH Group, has joined United Fintech as Partner and COO. With responsibility for the operational and commercial aspects of United Fintech’s portfolio, Marc will play a major role in helping to scale the fintechs acquired by United Fintech and enabling banks worldwide to have easy access to these innovative capital markets solutions.

Copper.co, the London-based digital asset infrastructure provider, today announced it has entered into an agreement to act as a custodian for Hehmeyer, the Chicago-based global market maker in digital assets. Copper will provide Hehmeyer with a custody solution for Hehmeyer’s assets and off-exchange settlement functionality.

Colt Technology Services has today announced the launch of Cloud Session Border Controller (SBC), a cloud-based voice solution which provides Direct Routing as a Service to rapidly enable PSTN calling for Microsoft Teams.  

Colt Cloud SBC is a major step forward in accelerating and simplifying the deployment of PSTN calling in Teams without the need to host any hardware on-premises or in a data centre and enabling enterprises to benefit from Direct Routing for Teams in a matter of days.

Sweep, the expense and travel management platform for SMEs, has today announced that it hit its 2020 funding target and achieved a total of £900,000 in investments and grants this year.