Team at table top retailer Rogue Games play with Bitcoin values to show how insane the value of cryptocurrency is

For most of us, Monopoly is our first introduction to the wonderful world of finances and capitalism. It’s where we learn that money does make the world (or top hats and thimbles at least) go around, and that, sometimes, it's actually kind of fun to bankrupt your friends and family.  

Omnio, a leading innovator in Banking-as-a-Service, has announced a EUR 30m funding led by pan-European venture fund GrayBella Capital. Omnio is a fast-growth pre-IPO banking infrastructure leader based in London, England.

LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, today announced the hire of Sumit Kumar as Senior FIX Specialist. He will be based in the firm’s London office.

Organisations across industries need “always-on” business continuity and disaster protection to get the most from their enterprise and service provider cloud deployments, while also maintaining the lowest possible total cost of ownership. To address these needs, Scality has strengthened its scale-out file system (SOFS) and streamlined management and monitoring of its RING8 file and object storage system.

Aiven, a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, today announced it raised $100M in its Series C, bringing the company’s total investment to $150M at a valuation of now more than $800M. The round was led by Atomico, with participation from Salesforce Ventures and World Innovation Lab as new investors. Lead investors of Aiven’s Series A (Earlybird Venture Capital) and Series B (IVP) also significantly increased their capital commitments to Aiven. 

Credorax, leading smart payments provider and merchant acquiring bank, has today announced the appointment of Achiya Fried as Chief Commercial Officer.

With almost 25 years’ experience in acquiring, ecommerce and sales and marketing across the cards and payments sector, Fried will be leading on Credorax’s market growth strategy, while heading up the business development and commercial teams.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), a global Fintech leader, has partnered with AccessFintech to deliver a new Strategic Gateway for Settlement Workflow that offers efficiencies in resolving multi-party settlement fails. The solution is powered by Broadridge’s industry-leading post-trade platforms and data, and incorporates AccessFintech’s cloud-based operations workflow model.

Volvo Cars has used the cloud-hosted FICO® Platform to digitize and accelerate the customer onboarding process for its new vehicle subscription service, Care by Volvo. By automating the process, Volvo has cut the credit check process on applicants from three days down to seconds.

More information: https://www.fico.com/en/platform

Chip, the award-winning savings app, has selected the custodian and investment technology provider, Seccl, to power its soon-to-launch Investment Platform.

A year since it was awarded CBILS lender status, responsible lender, AskIf, can now reveal it has approved close to £4m to deserving SMEs and micro businesses, playing an essential role in the national push to help businesses survive and thrive. AskIf has delivered on its mission to be an inclusive lender with 17% of CBILS loans distributed to BAME-owned businesses, and 22% to female-led businesses.