●      Veteran entertainment executive to lead company’s product roadmap

 ●      Announcement follows Synchtank’s ongoing Octopus investment partnership and expansion plans

Synchtank, a B2B SaaS company that provides asset and rights management and royalty accounting solutions for the music, media and production industries, today announces the appointment, effective immediately, of Janet Kirker as Chief Product Officer.

• Simon Boardman-Weston becomes Executive Chairman

• BRI now has 44 employees, more than a thousand clients and an annual turnover in excess of £5 million

• BRI Wealth Management aims to be the leading independent regional Wealth Manager

AstroPay, the online payment solution of choice for over five million users in the world, is pleased to announce their latest sponsorship deal with Pinnacle for this season’s Pinnacle Cup III – CS:GO, the third iteration of Pinnacle’s successful flagship CS:GO tournament series.

In partnership with Pinnacle, GRID and Relog Media, AstroPay will be providing a world-class viewing experience, exclusively designed for the Pinnacle esports audience.

-          54% of internal auditors have noticed an increase in cyber and phishing fraud

-          40% report an increase in asset misappropriation since the start of the pandemic

-          The need for more continuous assurance has brought internal audit more to the forefront of fraud risk management

OpenText Content Services and Digital Experience cloud solutions support bank

with advanced information management and regulatory compliance innovation

•                    Saver account combines a market-leading rate with a flexible and straightforward way to save

•                    Customers can open multiple saver accounts to help reach their savings goals

• A quarter of men in the UK have never felt more optimistic about their finances compared to just 15% of women
• However, men are more likely to need to borrow money within the next six months
• Men are almost twice as likely to be rejected by mainstream lenders, putting them at increased risk of falling into a debt spiral

Proportunity, the shared equity loan provider, has partnered with Knowledge Bank to make its products available on the industry leading criteria search platform for brokers.

The Knowledge Bank criteria database is the largest in the UK, and contains over 135,000 individual criteria from over 270 lenders.

In response to the news that the CMA has issued recommendations for the future of Open Banking, Nanna Saito Nielsen, VP of Banking Operations at GoCardless, said:

“We’re glad to see the CMA has published new guidance on the future of Open Banking. It’s not so much a resolution, however, as it is a signal that we’ve entered a critical phase of Open Banking development. We can’t afford to lose focus now.

85% of senior executives surveyed are already implementing BaaS solutions or are planning to in the next 12-18 months