Medius, a leading provider of AP Automation and wider Spend Management solutions, today announces a new Fraud & Risk Detection product to help businesses proactively prevent fraud, and gain greater visibility and more control across the invoice to pay lifecycle. The new solution extends existing risk and compliance controls within the Medius Suite.

Innovate Finance and leading FinTech industry players have given support to the digital pound, claiming it will boost innovation and cement the UK as a global payments leader.

The Bank of England and HM Treasury have both claimed that there is ‘likely to be a future need for’ a digital pound or Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as the UK battles for financial stability.

Baton Systems, the global fintech digitally transforming post-trade processing through distributed ledger technology (DLT), has launched a game-changing digital solution providing firms with automated, comprehensive, and real-time control of their cash settlements. 

Apron, the intuitive fintech platform that slashes the time small businesses spend processing invoices, has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Index Ventures. The funding is a sign of the growing appetite for consumer-grade experiences in B2B software and of the commercial potential in addressing the under-served small and medium business (SMB) community.

Muinmos and TConsult have signed an agreement to integrate TConsult’s Investor Self-Declaration platform (ISD) into Muinmos’ Client Onboarding Platform, enabling Muinmos’ clients, typically financial institutions, to automatically obtain ISDs instead of using multiple paper tax certification forms to document the tax status of their clients.

Global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., today announced that UBS successfully went live on Broadridge’s newly launched sponsored repo solution built on the DLT-enabled Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform. This sponsored repo solution marks the launch of the next phase in the rollout of Broadridge’s DLR platform.

Much has been made of the capabilities and limitless potential of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout 2023. From threatening our jobs to powerful new solutions – AI is reshaping every sector. 

mea, the AI-powered processing platform for the global insurance industry, has today announced the appointment of Graeme Asquith as UK Managing Director. This is a new role reflecting mea’s rapid global growth and the huge opportunity that intelligent process automation represents for the insurance industry.

Laser Digital, Nomura’s digital asset subsidiary, is pleased to announce the appointment of Hideaki Kudo as a Representative Director and head of Laser’s new office in Tokyo.