Paya , a leading integrated payments and commerce solutions provider, has announced a strategic partnership with RECUR360, a cloud-based software and automation solution provider which offers recurring payment, invoicing, and collection capabilities across a number of B2B verticals.

Financial IT: Can you please tell us more about your background? What’s the story behind founding TDM Group. 

TDM Group was founded in 1997 as a traditional IT MSP. We now have offices in the UK, US, UAE and Jordan and work with local partners in Canada, Europe, Aisa Pac, Africa and South America. We are also in the process of opening a software development hub in Sri Lanka. As we have expanded, our business model has also evolved, helping us to achieve year on year growth.

Hardbacon, a personal finance application that helps you achieve your financial goals, launches a national advertising campaign today encouraging Canadians to shop for financial products, while shining light on the best way to do it.

• Eka Ventures is an early stage venture fund that is integrating impact investing into mainstream venture capital
• The firm will invest in category-defining consumer technology companies that positively shape the world, making it more sustainable, healthy, and inclusive.
• Eka’s team has strong expertise in backing consumer-tech companies such as Gousto and Bloom & Wild

Trulioo, the leading global identity verification company, today announced new partnerships with four major European payment providers: PayDo, Pollen Technologies, Sokin and XanderPay.

detected, the global mark of trust for eCommerce, has completed its latest funding round of £900k. This newest round demonstrates impressive industry backing and strong support for detected. Participants in this round include existing angel investors and institutional stakeholder EmergeVest, plus a new tranche of high-profile investors including:

Certified FinTech Practitioner MENA is a new programme developed jointly by The London Institute of Banking & Finance and LendIt Fintech, and delivered in partnership with ADGM Academy in MENA, which aims to help bank and fintech executives get to grips with this new world of fintech. It’s open for registrations now, with the course starting this September.

• 55% likely to buy from Western Europe and 45% from Northern Europe
• Londoners are the most willing to buy from overseas versus those in the South West who are the most reticent
• Despite ‘support local’ movements in the wake of the pandemic, buying from local retailers only matters to 14% of British shoppers, and only 8% prefer to buy from the UK 

Paydock, an enterprise-grade payments orchestration platform appoints Jenela Gunasekaran as its Chief Product Officer. This significant appointment emphasises the increasingly recognised role of payments orchestration as well as Paydock’s leadership in the sector.

Regulation in the crypto industry is a topic we in the UK cannot afford to ignore. Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is now the subject of a consumer warning from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Others, such as Wirex, have been forced to suspend onboarding of UK customers altogether while they continue conversations with the regulator. And across the whole wider ecosystem, we are seeing the signs of continued and sustained regulatory scrutiny.