Napier, a global end-to-end intelligent compliance platform and provider of advanced financial crime risk management solutions has announced that its current Chief Operations Officer Greg Watson, is to take the helm as Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect, as former CEO Julian Dixon moves into a full-time role as Founder and Board Member.

Billtrust, a B2B accounts receivable automation and integrated B2B payments leader, announced the appointment of Marco Eeman as Managing Director to lead its European operations, focusing on profitable revenue growth and customer satisfaction. Eeman was a principal of Netherlands-based Order2Cash, a leading order-to-cash platform provider, which was acquired by Billtrust in February 2022.

FairMoney, a credit-led mobile banking platform for emerging markets in Africa and Asia, has partnered with Oradian, a cloud-based core banking system, to power its next stage of growth and product innovation.

Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, today announced today that Adrian Pillay has joined as Vice President of Sales for Middle East and Africa as part of the company’s expanding investment in the region to meet the growing demand for its AI-driven risk decisioning platform.

Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB) has secured an ENABLE Build guarantee via the British Business Bank and The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DHLUC).

It follows HTB’s previous ENABLE Guarantee, agreed in 2017, which has so far provided £342m in SME housebuilder funding and supported the building of 1547 new housing units.

Northern Trust today announced the appointment of Michael Buzza as global head of Network Management & Market Strategy. Buzza, previously EMEA head of Market Advocacy and Innovation Research, will oversee the teams dedicated to providing market access and insights across the traditional securities services markets within the Digital Assets and Financial Markets group.

Digital bank Zopa and credit marketplace ClearScore have unveiled a new cross-industry initiative to drive 10 million actions that strengthen consumer finances amidst the rising cost of living.

Digital payments specialist, Adflex, today announced a new partnership with Barclaycard to help simplify the acceptance of card payments across its B2B client base. By adding Barclaycard to its network of acquirers, Adflex is able to offer its enterprise merchants faster settlement, transparent reporting and more competitive merchant service fees.

OpenPayd, a leading global payments and Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform has today announced the appointment of Richard Given as Group General Counsel, to oversee the group’s legal and regulatory work.

GoCardless, a leader in direct bank payment solutions, has launched Verified Mandates in France. Part of the GoCardless global ‘bank payment’ platform, Verified Mandates combines the Account Information Services (AIS) capabilities of open banking with bank debit to stop fraud before it happens.