British Business Investments, a commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a £30 million commitment to support UK small businesses through Funding Circle’s UK SME Direct Lending Fund.

Payment processor technology leader Paymentology has been accepted by global professional services firm PwC to join their Scale Fintech Programme.

The programme acts as a platform to allow financial institutions and fintechs to work closer together and focus on progressive benefits for the industry.

PwC believes that collaboration is a key part of innovation and are on a mission to bring the best from both the scale-up and large corporate worlds together.

Target Group, the operational transformation, business processing and software provider has announced that Dr Roger Newman has been appointed CEO, with an ambitious plan to transform the business and achieve substantial growth.

Sometimes, change happens slowly. Other times it chases you down like that boulder at the beginning of Indiana Jones. In 2020, change is fully in boulder mode. And the holiday season is when it either catches up with you or you leap triumphantly from the temple entrance, golden statue in hand.

Surecomp, the leading provider of global trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, today announced the addition of another new fintech partner to its Marketplace platform. Through open API connectivity, customers can now access Windward which is a leading fintech provider of maritime predictive intelligence for trade, finance and compliance. 

Volante Technologies, the global leader in cloud payments and financial messaging, today announced strategic additions to its leadership team with senior hires in customer success and solution delivery.

Vonage (Nasdaq: VG), a global leader in cloud communications technology helping businesses accelerate their digital transformation, has announced a strategic partnership with UK-based data and software specialists, Software Solved.

The leading payment processing company in the South East Europe, Mercury PSI, became part of the Nets family together with the German Concardis Group in early 2019. Integrations have now been completed and the change will be embodied by merging Mercury PSI into the Nets brand.

Eventus Systems, Inc., a multi-award winning global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, today announced that Vincent Turcotte has just joined the firm as Sales Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, operating out of Hong Kong. Turcotte has more than three decades of experience at exchanges, broker-dealers and futures commission merchants (FCMs), most recently as Director, Asia Pacific for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).