Venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital today announces that it has seen a record year of Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fundraising, with £29.4 million deployed across 37 growth companies. This represents an increase from 2019/20 and 2018/19 in which £21 million and £28 million were deployed respectively.  Deepbridge manages the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS and the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS.

RTGS.global, the world’s first real-time cross-border liquidity network, today announces the appointment of Dave Sissens as CEO. Dave will drive an accelerated commercial strategy at RTGS.global and operationalisation of the company’s services, as announced by RTGS.global founder Nick Ogden.

FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group’ or ‘FXCM’), the leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading and related services, is today announcing an expansion of its Single Share CFD and proprietary Stock Basket product lines.

Leading AI technology solutions provider, Pelican, announced today that Bank of Montreal (BMO) has recently gone live with Pelican Intelligent Financial Hub – STP, Pelican’s payment analytics, intelligent automation and straight-through processing (STP) solution. The bank and its customers will benefit from enhanced infrastructure and operational payment capabilities. 

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has today announced that it has invested £2.5 million in Cardinality Ltd, a software and service provider which has developed a data ingestion and analytics platform called ‘Perception’, that enables its customers to run, manage and derive value from datasets in real time and at massive scale.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global payment processor and provider of integrated payment products, today announced the appointment of Sanjoy Bose as the Chief Revenue Officer – South Asia. Sanjoy will be responsible for growing FSS Business in the region, taking a customer-centric approach and driving high-quality engagements.

Liftoff, the leader in mobile app marketing and retargeting, today released its annual Mobile Finance Apps Report in partnership with mobile data and analytics platform App Annie. The global COVID-19 pandemic drove a year of intense economic uncertainty, and users turned increasingly to mobile to help make sense of their financial standing.

Following the publication of its Springboard to Recovery report, NatWest has today relaunched its Enterprise programme to boost its support for scale-up businesses, as well as climate, fintech, and B-Corp focussed businesses. The free programme is open to applications from all UK SMEs from today, for businesses who will join the programme in June. 

The Indian motor insurance marketplace has noted a clear shift towards remote ‘Do-It-Yourself’ checks and Inspection as a Service as a result of COVID-19 which has necessitated moving away from physical vehicle inspections. During the lockdown Insurtech WIMWIsure has conducted more than 2 lakh virtual inspections for passenger and commercial vehicles through its on-demand Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled video inspection platform in Financial Year 2020-21.

BMLL, the leading, independent provider of harmonised, historical data and analytics today announced that Masami Johnstone joined as Senior Client Advisor and Simon Ellis as Head of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances. Masami Johnstone will focus on developing senior relationships in the capital markets community, both on the buyside and sellside and Simon Ellis will be responsible for continuing the development of the wider BMLL ecosystem.