A new study from Juniper Research has found that the total transaction value of smart home payments, payments that occur via smart home devices, will exceed $164 billion in 2025, from $22 billion in 2020.

Sweep, the expense and travel management platform for SMEs, is today launching a Seedrs fundraising campaign as it continues it’s to raise capital during a key stage of the business’ growth. The UK headquartered business aims to raise £200,000 and use The Future Fund to double this to £400,000.

Cypherium, the enterprise-focused blockchain platform facilitating interoperability between blockchains and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), has shipped its mainnet.

Award-winning online CFD and FX broker IronFX conducts a huge global recruitment program to hire 200 employees after a 300% increase in forex accounts and the recently announced R&D center in Mumbai.

Ingram Micro, the world’s leading technology distributor, has unveiled a new addition to Ingram Micro Cloud’s UK Cloud Marketplace. Cloud solution SignTech, a paperless form solution, offers a fully integrated, private application server that instantly creates paperless workflows to streamline work processes and save valuable time.
 
The partnership directly supports SignTech’s plans to increase UK channel presence following on from great success in over 120 countries worldwide.
 

Omnio, the Banking as a Service platform FinTech, has announced that its credit union business KESHO has agreed a partnership with Credit Kudos, an FCA-authorised challenger credit reference agency and Open Banking Account Information Service Provider (AISP). Through Credit Kudos’ direct connections to the UK’s largest banks - via Open Banking - the company helps lenders, brokers, and financial institutions make better and faster credit decisions based on real-time, detailed data and insights.

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CloudMargin, creator of the world’s first and only collateral and margin management solution native to the cloud, has once again won the award for Best Buy-Side Collateral Management Tool at the 14^th annual Buy-Side Technology Awards, hosted by WatersTechnology in a virtual ceremony on Friday.  This marked the company’s fifth win in the category.

Banks would be well advised to adopt a holistic view of risk that ultimately benefits their bottom lines.

AccessFintech, a leading fintech company evolving the financial operating model through data and workflow collaboration, announces the launch of a new derivatives cash payments affirmation service, working with Goldman Sachs.

Goldman Sachs and AccessFintech developed the cross-industry service working with a major Tier 1 buy-side client to embed a process that allows for the real-time supervision and scrutiny of expected cash payments associated with derivatives trading.