A new independent survey of 2,000 UK adults has revealed how the cost of living is shifting the bank-customer relationship. It found:

Horizon Software (Horizon), provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology for the global capital markets, have today announced that, Santander Brokerage Poland, a part of Santander Bank Polska - one of the largest and most innovative financial institutions in Poland, has been the first Introducing Market Makers on global connect with Horizon’s Platform for Market Making connecting to the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE).

Promon, the leading provider of application shielding technology, responsible for uncovering the critical Android vulnerabilities StrandHogg and StrandHogg 2.0, has discovered a new threat to Android’s worldwide userbase.

Featurespace, the world leader in machine learning fraud and financial crime prevention technology, has secured funding from UK and US governments to build a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) system to help banks and payments service providers (PSPs) detect financial crime – whilst protecting data privacy.

TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, today announced that social trading platform NAGA has implemented its platform to enhance the customer onboarding experience and provide closed-loop payments, initially in Germany, Spain, Ireland, Finland, France, Lithuania and the Netherlands.

Motive Partners ("Motive" or the "Firm"), a specialist private equity firm focused on building, backing and buying the technology companies that enable the financial economy, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to acquire embedded/capital GmbH ("embedded/capital"), a leading European venture capital platform focused on supporting the next wave of financial technology innovation, subject to customary closing conditions. The acquisition is expected to close at year-end.

Financial institutions are beginning to explore the next stage in the financial data revolution, Open Finance. 

Today, BaaS (Banking as a Service) fintech  Griffin announced that its sandbox environment has officially moved out of beta. Free, unlimited sandbox access is now available to all fintechs and brands that want to build a prototype or experiment on Griffin’s platform.

Today Finastra announced a collaboration with Fragmos Chain, a blockchain platform which digitalizes interactions between financial institutions, to provide Finastra customers with out-of-the-box integration with Finastra Summit, its over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market solution.

Quant, the blockchain for finance pioneer, has partnered with UST, a leading digital transformation solutions company, to provide technical integration and tokenisation services to central and commercial banks and capital markets participants.