Following a successful pilot in the north west of England, where 1.4 million pages of local high street offers and events were viewed, a national version OFFiGO has now gone live. The digital platform seeks to increase spend and footfall in the retail and hospitality sector by bringing the ‘high street’ online and enabling customers to find local deals.

Vayana Network, India’s largest third-party platform for short-term trade finance,  today announced that it won the “Innovation of the Year – Fintech” award at the 5th Inflection Summit & Awards on Digital Transformation and Supply Chain organized by NASSCOM and Alden Global in Bengaluru. It is one of the most prestigious awards that honours leaders, their organizations and teams for breakthrough innovations and excellence in the technology, supply chain, logistics, and start-up and fintech industries. 

Mimiro (formerly ComplyAdvantage) has raised USD $30 million from investors to accelerate the global expansion of its machine-learning platform for analysing the risk of financial crime. By swiftly and intelligently verifying parties and transactions, Mimiro fundamentally changes how companies assess who they’re doing business with – offering organisations greater confidence in their own operations, attacking financial crime and reducing laborious manual checks.

Temenos, the banking software company, and Credorax, a leading global smart acquiring banking firm, today announced that it has selected Temenos T24 Transact deployed on the cloud. Temenos’ digital banking platform in the cloud will enable Credorax to expand into new market segments, and accelerate time-to-market for its offerings, for enterprises and small businesses, beyond merchant acquiring, into cross-border payments and banking services.

Finatext, one of Japan’s leading trading brokerages, has invested £2 million to support the launch and development of a new and educational FCA-regulated platform, designed to make trading more accessible to a new generation of users.

One of Asia’s leading fintech companies has invested £2 million into the development of a UK-based trading platform, demonstrating confidence in a post-Brexit Britain.

IHS Markit (Nasdaq: INFO), a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that MarkitSERV and Cobalt are collaborating to accelerate the delivery of new, innovative post-trade processing services for foreign exchange (FX) markets.  As part of its alliance with Cobalt, IHS Markit also made a strategic investment in the firm and will partner with Cobalt to sell and deliver the solution.

Commenting on Apple's Q4 earnings results falling short and iPhone sales shrinking as the company's new line-up did not perform as well as expected, Christopher Dembik, Head of Macro Analysis at Saxo Bank said:

Mason Advisory, independent IT consultancy, has been selected as one of the leading management consultancies in the UK for Digital Transformation and IT Strategy. 

The company features in the Financial Times’ special report – The UK’s Leading Management Consultants 2019 – on 30^thJanuary published in partnership with Statista. 

Speaking in London today, at a Guernsey Finance seminar showcasing Guernsey’s global leadership in application of technology in financial services with the introduction of the Electronic Agents Ordinance 2019, the Guernsey Financial Services Commission outlined an approach to provide greater regulatory reassurance in the application of electronic CDD.

Coupa Software, a leader in business spend management (BSM), today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Accounts Payable Applications 2019 Vendor Assessment, US44753119, January 2019. 

Among the strengths contributing to Coupa's position in the Leader category are: