Fintech scale-up Pleo, which offers simplified expense management tools and smart company Mastercards, today launches Bills - an easy way to consolidate, track and pay business-to-business (B2B) bill payments and a supplier’s terms of service. With free-of-charge domestic transfers, businesses will also benefit from additional, vital cost-savings when paying invoices using Pleo Bills.

Attributable to Richard Harrison, VP of Global Partners at PPRO:

The coronavirus pandemic has brought about chaos for many UK SMEs, but raw entrepreneurism has risen through the uncertainty as businesses adapt and pivot to survive.  

New research¹ on the future of businesses from Cynergy Bank found that 70% of businesses have had to change their business model to survive during the pandemic.

Leading global fintech Gresham Technologies plc  that specialises in providing solutions for data integrity and control, banking integration, and payments and cash management, today announced that secure logistics and payments solutions provider, Brinks Solutions Nederland B.V. (Brinks), will be extending and expanding its use of the Clareti Platform to support the Brinks Acceleration Center strategy.

In celebration of UK Fintech Week, Tech Nation, the growth platform for tech companies and leaders, has today announced new signatories of the Fintech Pledge. The Fintech Pledge, supported by HM Treasury and developed by the Fintech Delivery Panel, sets world-leading standards to accelerate the growth of the UK’s fintech sector by promoting valuable partnerships between financial institutions and tech scaleups.

Global payments service provider SumUp today announces it has partnered with the UK’s fastest-growing small business network and business support provider, Enterprise Nation, in a bid to create the next generation of high street entrepreneurs.

Nigerian fintech platform and Open Finance (API Economy) pioneers, Okra, have secured a $3.5m Seed raise.

Underwriting Innovation Europe features top Chief Underwriting Officers addressing analytics, automation and cyber. 

Over 1000 underwriters are expected to attend Underwriting Innovation Europe, the largest online gathering of European underwriters, which takes place from June 28-30.

The Western Union Company, a global leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, announced today that Chief Executive Officer Hikmet Ersek and Chief Financial Officer Raj Agrawal will host a webcast and conference call to discuss 2021 first quarter results on May 4, 2021 at 4:30 p.m. ET. A press release highlighting the financial results will be issued at approximately 4:00 p.m. ET the same day.