Encompass Corporation, the provider of intelligently automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, today announces the appointment of experienced financial crime compliance professional Michael Horsnell as Business Development Director.

Growth hacking is a hugely popular buzzword right now. Founders are desperate to understand what it is and how to do it. It, therefore, comes as no surprise that there is an abundance of growth hacking books on the market. Unfortunately, while these guides are often packed with insightful tips and tricks, I've found that they also fail to put everything into context. Many times I'd finish reading a chapter and feel like I'd learned a bunch of interesting tactics but be left completely in the dark about which ones to use, when to use them, and why they work (or don't).

Collaboration will produce immersive online executive education programmes that deliver rewarding and transformative career development across frontier fields

Cambridge Judge Business School and Esme Learning, the AI-powered digital learning platform, have announced a collaboration to empower working professionals’ career development across frontier fields. The multi-year collaboration commences with two inaugural six-week online executive education programmes:

Real estate lender’ new client portal demonstrates flexibility, adaptability and innovation of Backbase’s solutions

Backbase has supported real estate financing leader pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank (pbb) to introduce its new client portal which is powered by the digital banking technology provider’s Engagement Banking platform. With the help of the Backbase platform, pbb has been able to further digitize its processes, create new efficiencies and empower both its development and business teams with a new portal that will facilitate innovation and customer service.

FRANKFURT AM MAIN – Despite the current pandemic, China retained solid growth in 2020. As the only major economy around the globe, the middle kingdom reports a positive economic growth of 2.3 percent in 2020. China’s pillars of growth roots in its innovation power and a growing middle class, making Chinese companies the profiteers of globalized markets.

Objectway, Global Top 100 fintech leader in the Digital Wealth and Asset Management software, announced today the acquisition of Die Software Peter Fitzon GmbH (DSW), a primary German provider of Core Banking solutions.   

• Capital will be deployed alongside Praetura’s Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) funds and angel investors to back early-stage businesses across multiple sectors.
• Praetura Ventures will be the Regional Angels Programme’s first delivery partner with Manchester-based headquarters.

Manchester venture capital investor Praetura Ventures has today unveiled a £15m commitment from British Business Investments, to further support early-stage businesses and the ‘levelling up’ of funding in the regions.

 Legislate Technologies, a legal technology company pioneering the use of knowledge graphs for the creation and management of contracts, is pleased to announce the grant of United States Patent No. 11,087,219. The patent protects Legislate’s approach to using knowledge graphs, for generating, negotiating and managing documents.

<p dir="ltr"><em>78.9% of investors monitor their spending using an app or software. These are the results of the latest survey conducted by the investment platform Robo.cash. Remarkably, only 7% trust Google Sheets and almost half of respondents prefer Excel spreadsheets. This largely confirms the notion that investors value data security highly when it comes to financial statements.</em></p>

 Mphasis, an IT solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today unveiled its brand transformation campaign – “Engineering is in our DNA” – a fresh approach that help organizations unlock the new digital future.