NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2022 -- Pinwheel, today announced that it raised $50M in a Series B round led by GGV Capital, with continued participation from Coatue, First Round Capital, and Upfront Ventures, as well as new investments from strategic partners including AMEX Ventures, Indeed, Kraken Ventures, Franklin Templeton, and more.

In recent years, the UK banking industry has experienced a high level of IT failures and crashes.

TransUnion, a global information and insights provider and one of the UK’s leading credit reference agencies, celebrated two wins at the Credit and Collections Technology Awards 2022, for Innovation in Credit and best Anti-Fraud Solution.

The awards highlight the success of companies that lead the way in the credit industry, with a focus on how technology supports the sector in developing and enhancing best-in-class solutions.

Boost.ai, a Nordic Capital-backed global leader in conversational AI for enterprises, today announced that Jerry Haywood is joining the company’s executive team as Chief Executive Officer effective December 1, 2022. Haywood brings 20 years of enterprise technology experience with him and has held various sales and senior leadership positions at IBM, Cisco, and Salesforce.

BBVA, Toscafund, and Infinity Investment Partners have agreed to invest £30 million in equity to Atom Bank to power lending and growth.

Moss, the fast-growing European fintech, has today announced its partnership with Klarna's financial technology platform, Klarna Kosma, to solve one of the major pains that SME finance functions face: lack of control and visibility on corporate spend. The partnership marks the latest in a string of momentous events for Moss, which has been rapidly expanding in the European market since receiving $86m in Series B funding in early 2022.

Pleo today announces the appointment of Meri Williams as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

A significant upgrade with an innovative user interface and user experience elements has been introduced for MarksMan Liquidity Hub, a premier platform providing crypto spot liquidity solutions. The upgrade impacts every aspect of the bridge technology product, giving customers additional ways to hedge market risk, more markets from which to choose, more chances to differentiate their offering, and more ways to provide alternative sources of liquidity.

‘Paycoin’, a crypto payments company that has successfully introduced crypto payment services to more than 3 million users and 150,000 merchants in Korea, has kickstarted its expansion into the global crypto payments market through a partnership with ‘TripleA’.

‘Payprotocol AG’, the issuer of ‘Paycoin (PCI)’ announced a partnership (MoU) with ‘TripleA’, a licensed crypto payments company, to collaborate on building a global crypto payments ecosystem.