Equifax UK, the business and consumer insights expert, has signed an exclusive agreement with UK consumer fintech and payment card app Curve to deliver comprehensive verification and ID solutions to its new personal finance product, Curve Credit. Powered by Open Banking, Curve Credit allows consumers to ‘Go Back in Time’ and pay later via instalments on transactions made with their Curve card.

Finastra today announced the integration of its Fusion Trade Innovation and Enigio’s trace:original to create a solution for managing and handling digital original documents using distributed ledger technology. The resulting app removes the need for a central registry or document repository.

 GeoComply Solutions Inc, a geolocation security company that helps detect and prevent fraud, has appointed Tim White as General Manager of its fintech and OTT streaming business. With a proven track record in scaling high-growth businesses, Tim will drive the worldwide expansion of GeoComply’s award-winning suite of geolocation and fraud prevention solutions. Tim will also manage the roll-out of the company’s international partner program to support growth in its targeted markets.

FinecoBank announces today that funds from global investment manager, Ninety One are now available on its investing platform. Fineco’s growing customer base in the United Kingdom can now access a selection of Ninety One’s distinctive active investment strategies including the sustainability focused Global Environment Fund which invests in companies that are driving decarbonisation.

Despite its new obligations for financial intermediaries taking effect in September 2020, the European Commission’s updated Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II) is still very much in the early stages of a full and seamless adoption across European regulated markets, according to a new report by global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR).

Meniga (www.meniga.com), a leading provider of digital banking solutions for some of the world’s largest financial institutions, has closed a €10m strategic investment round led by institutional investors, Velocity Capital Fintech Ventures, and Frumtak Ventures. Other participants in the round include Industrifonden, the UK Government’s Future Fund, and existing customers UniCredit, Swedbank, Groupe BPCE, and Íslandsbanki.

ClauseMatch has become one of the five innovative tech pioneers to successfully complete LawTech Sandbox, the new programme by TechNation UK. ClauseMatch is an award-winning global compliance technology company (RegTech) that automates policy management and regulatory change management at financial institutions and other regulated organisations. The first cohort of LawTech launched back in November 2020.

Glue42, the company that delivers integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally, and Velox, the only data-centric, low-code application platform built for the front-office, today launched the ‘G42 Fidessa/Velox Appliance’.