Volt, the leading open payments gateway has recruited payments veteran Matt Komorowski as its new Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). 

Matt joins Volt after almost a decade with PayPal, where for the past three years he has been leading the payments giant’s channel partnership business across APAC, LATAM, and MEA. Previously, Matt was instrumental in PayPal’s record growth in a variety of senior commercial and leadership roles across Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. 

New research by global cryptocurrency payments company Mercuryo has revealed that over 28% of the UK population now own cryptocurrency, with a further 41% expecting to hold it in the next five years.

Wealth managers can now introduce more of their end-investors to the world of private investments through a newly-launched institutional service on digital securities exchange ADDX. Corporate treasuries and family offices can also take part in the space via a corporate service to diversify their portfolios through private market products.

George Liu from Babel Finance's Singapore office believes that as the Ukraine crisis drags on, the looming uncertainty will force investors to seek assets that might assist in mitigating sovereign risk, in particular Bitcoin.

Shojin Property Partners Closes £3m From Global Investors at a Valuation of £49M

Partnerships

Mollie Teams Up With Recharge to Offer Best-in-class Product Subscription Solution

Deployment of the artificial intelligence (AI) platform will automate and streamline loan decisioning for the credit union

Brian Bartlett joins fast-growing fintech

By collaborating with Subsquid, peaq aims to transform the Web2-based Internet of Things (IoT) into the Web3 Economy of Things, giving people real, trustless ownership over machines and the machine economy.

Figures published by the AIC today show that the amount of money invested into VCTs for the 2021/22 tax year has broken through £1 billion for the first time, raising £1.13 billion. That’s 65% more than in 2020/21, and 45% more than 2005/06, previously the biggest fundraising year on record.