Growth Street is glad to annunce that the following appointments have been done. Specifically, April Nardulli was appointed as General Counsel and Chris Weller was assigned a position of Commercial Director. 

April’s previous experience within London’s financial technology industry, most recently at RateSetter, should accelerate Growth Street’s ability to expand on its initial product offering to its customers.

I blogged recently about American banks beating up the regulators to stop account access via APIs.  I heard this in various White House meetings in 2016, and assumed all banks and bank people felt the same way.  Well, they don’t.

Today Torstone Technology, the leading provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, unveils that MainFirst, the independent German headquartered European financial services firm, specialising in equity brokerage, capital markets and asset management, has completed the migration to Torstone’s middle and back office platform, Inferno.

Today Fiserv, Inc., a global leader in providing financial services technology solutions, revealed that Fulton Financial Corporation, a bank holding company headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has signed a long-term agreement to renew its relationship with Fiserv.   

Today, Mastercard welcomed five new startups to its Start Path Global program – the company’s global initiative to support innovative later-stage startups who are reshaping the future of commerce. The program is open to startups who are rethinking banking and payments and have raised a significant seed or Series A round of investment.

Wonga, the payday loan firm, has suffered a data breach which may have affected about 245,000 customers in the UK.

The range of information stolen may include names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, phone numbers, bank account numbers, sort codes and the last four digits of customers’ card numbers. 

The firm has apologised for inconvenience it caused to its customers and offered support through a devoted phone line.

Today BroadSoft, Inc., a world market leader in cloud business software for unified communication, collaboration and contact center reported that more than 100 channel partners, serving millions of business customers across the world, are in trials with BroadSoft Team-One. 

Fidessa group plc (LSE: FDSA) today announced that it has been named Best Front-Office Execution Platform in the 2017 Waters Sell-side Technology Awards, the third consecutive win for Fidessa in this category.

Recent years have seen the operating landscape change dramatically for market participants as a result of regulation, competitive pressures and increasing globalisation. In order to remain relevant in today's complex marketplace, brokers need to reflect these changes in the execution services they offer, whilst at the same time reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Previousely, Lloyds Banking Group introduced a new mentoring scheme that sees FinTech start-ups benefit from the broad expertise of its colleagues from across the Group.

Now paymentwall is connected to all banks in Sweden, including Nordea Bank, SEB, Handelsbanken, and Swedbank, allowing every person with a bank account in Sweden to pay using online bank transfer.