Plenitude, the Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance specialists today launched Plenitude ClientSight, a comprehensive, cloud-based Client Risk Rating (CRR) solution.

Identitii Limited is pleased to announce it has signed a five-year SLA with the Australian arm of the Dutch-led multinational banking and financial services group, Rabobank. Rabobank Australia will use Identitii’s cloud-hosted reporting platform, to help further automate IFTI reporting to AUSTRAC.

Commenting on the agreement, John Rayment, CEO of Identitii said:

Today, Berlin-based infrastructure fintech Upvest announced the closing of a $42 million Series B financing round - one of the largest German fintech funding rounds in 2022. Bessemer Venture Partners is leading the Series B with Earlybird and ABN AMRO Ventures doubling down as previous investors and participating in Notion Capital, Partech, 10x Group, Speedinvest and Maximilian Tayenthal (N26).

Visa, the global leader in digital payments, today released a whitepaper in partnership with payments processor Worldline India on the growth of contactless payments adoption in India. The whitepaper, ‘India taps into a Contactless Future’, analyses India’s journey with digital payments infrastructure and contactless payments, highlighting the rapidly growing adoption across regions and sectors.

Today TripleA, a Crypto Payments Company, announced that it secured $4 million in funding led by a leading global lifestyle brand for gamers, Razer’s corporate ventures arm, zVentures. TripleA is the first Crypto Payments Company that has earned the  Digital Payment Token license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Institutional Crypto & Digital Asset Management Platform Rooba Finance has raised $1.3 Million in a Seed round led by Inflection Point Ventures. It also saw participation from LetsVenture, Endurance Capital, KubeVC and Other prominent angel investors. The funds raised will be utilized towards Platform Development, setting up a licensed platform overseas and enabling a global GTM.

The United States leads in the number of fintech Unicorns globally.

Over nine out of ten (95%) buy-side financial services across the UK, US and Asia are looking to improve their ESG data management, with 80% of firms in total looking to do this within the next year. Additionally, 32% are planning on doing so in the next six months.

Drawbridge, a premier provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, today announced it has been selected as ‘IT Provider: Cyber Security’ at the 2022 Drawdown Awards.

The Drawdown Awards service provider categories recognize vendors who provide private equity firms with best-in-class solutions and expertise to drive growth.