Interview with Mark Jenkinson, Co-Founder and Director of Strategy of Chetwood Financial

Financial IT: Chetwood Financial (Chetwood) was launched in 2016 and gained a full banking license at the end of 2018. What was the motivation to start a new challenger bank in the first place? Put another way, what were the problems of banking customers that you sought to solve?

As part of a large-scale strategic project to update its entire processing infrastructure, Millikart, the leading independent processor in Azerbaijan, has successfully migrated its Visa connections to its new platform. The migration of the Visa network is the first stage in the Millikart’s transformation project that will see it migrate all of its services to the open development payments platform, TranzAxis, from Compass Plus.

Three years ago, GDPR was born and blasted a wind of unprecedented change upon organisations. It ushered in a new era of enhanced data protections – or that was the intention. By 2022, more than 1 million organisations will have a data protection officer according to Gartner[1], while privacy-driven spending on compliance tooling will climb to over £5 billion in 2022.

 Profile Software, an international financial solutions provider, announced today that it has been named a category leader in Chartis’ Fintech Quadrant report for Wealth Portfolio Management Suites: Advisor Desktop solutions.

EUR, AUD, NZD Lead Fall; USD/JPY Dips, Commodities Sink

Comment from David Jones, Chief Market Strategist at European investment trading platform Capital.com.

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) today announced the availability of data on 2020 mortgage lending transactions at 4,475 U.S. financial institutions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.

Beamery, the leading talent operating system that helps companies attract, engage and retain top talent, has announced US$138m in Series C funding led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board (Ontario Teachers’), through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform (TIP).

Qumulo, the breakthrough leader in radically simplifying enterprise file data management across hybrid cloud environments, today announced an integration with HPE GreenLake Cloud Services to offer c