corfinancial, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, reports that its clients have enjoyed uninterrupted trade matching and settlement during lockdown – even when trading volumes suddenly spiked.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is delighted to announce that Michael Imeson, Chartered MCSI has been appointed Chairman of the CISI Fintech Professional Forum Committee.

IDnow a leading provider of Identity Verification-as-a-Service solutions, sees strong volume growth for its artificial intelligence-based solution. Transactions via IDnow AutoIdent have increased tenfold in the first two quarters of 2020.

 Mendix, a Siemens business and the global leader in enterprise low-code, released a survey showing that, despite being one of the first sectors to embrace digitalisation, the financial services industry is still mired down with complex processes and inadequate tools that are hindering its growth.

The British Business Bank publishes Future Fund data that gives a detailed picture of the 252 companies that have been approved for £236.2m worth of Convertible Loan Agreements since the scheme was launched on 20 May. There have been 623 applications in total in the first month of operation. Government has said it will keep the size of the scheme under review and consider increasing it if needed. This data shows where companies are based across the UK and the composition of the management teams by gender and ethnicity.

Zopa has today been awarded its full bank licence, launching at a time when consumers need financial services providers to work on their behalf more than ever.