Duff & Phelps, the premier global valuation and corporate finance advisor with a specialist risk consultancy practice, today announced that two new members have joined its UK Compliance and Regulatory Consulting (CRC). Derek Taylor and Fergus Allan have both been appointed as Managing Directors in Duff & Phelps’ London consulting team.

Derek Taylor - Managing Director (London)

Kyriba Corp., the global leader in cloud-based treasury, cash, risk and payment management solutions, today announced exceptional growth in Switzerland. To strengthen its position as a world leader in the space, Kyriba bolstered its presence in many countries in 2016, including Switzerland. This growth strategy translated into exceptional development of new logos, an increase of +40% from 2015 to 2016. 

Today Trov, the advanced technology company revolutionizing insurance for the tech-empowered consumer, reported that it has closed $45 million in Series D funding led by Munich Re / HSB Ventures, bringing its total funding to just over $85 million. 

There’s no denying avoiding the recent boom in mergers and acquisitions, with various ‘megamerger’ deals being discussed in business news headlines the world over. But no matter the size or scale of the deal, they all come about through a desire from organisations to increase the scale of their operations and increase overall efficiency, all while bringing in more revenue.

With contributions from Zerado, FinTech Network have produced a whitepaper that looks at smart contracts and how they could improve efficiencies within the banking sector. The whitepaper highlights:

In light of the recent news on the gender pay gap law, which comes into force today, we wanted to send through an expert comment on the topic: 

Launched in 2015, the agRIF fund seeks to address the scarcity of financial services adapted to the needs of smallholder farmers, an economic segment representing the largest portion of those living on less than $2 per day. It does this by investing equity in financial intermediaries that target the agricultural sector.

Commonwealth Bank is putting the power of big data into the hands of small and medium businesses by launching a powerful new-to-market business analytics platform. The world-leading Daily IQ 2.0 platform brings together a suite of data feeds and online tools enabling businesses to not only monitor their performance in real-time and instantly view customer purchasing and demographic trends, but to model future scenarios based on a range of current financial and industry data.

NCR Corporation, a global leader in omni-channel solutions, has launched the NCR Silver family of point-of-sale (POS) solutions to Australian retail, service and restaurant merchants. NCR Silver is an integrated payment, marketing and management solution that can transform a tablet into a complete POS system, capable of sales reporting, employee management, inventory management and more.

Net Element, Inc. ( NASDAQ : NETE ) ("Net Element" or the "Company"), a provider of global mobile payment technology solutions and value-added transactional services, today announces that its PayOnline subsidiary has launched Apple Pay support in Russia.