An unseen part of running a small business that many people overlook is the act of paying out a salary. Too high, and you’re testing how long your business can run with reduced profits. Too low, and you may struggle yourself to stay afloat, especially if you live in an expensive area.

Strengthening its senior leadership team further, DealShare, the social e-commerce pioneer and recent unicorn, today announced the appointment of Venkatesh Tarakkad as Chief Financial Officer. Venkatesh brings over 25 years of experience in enabling businesses to scale quickly, increasing efficiency & improving profitability, taking companies public. He will be in charge of DealShare's Finance function as well Supply Chain function.

• Only a third have read industry guidance on how to deal with a cyberattack
• Minority of firms updated security training to address new services and ways of working

We are delighted to announce that yourCom, a provider of corporate lending, has embraced Enigio’s trace:original in combination with Signicat’s solution for digital identity and electronic signing to launch a fully digital lending process.

 Icon Solutions has announced that its payments platform solution – IPF – has been selected by a major Swiss bank as the core of its payments transformation programme that includes instant schemes, traditional ACH and cross-border payments.

NEAR Foundation, the Swiss non-profit that oversees the governance and development of the NEAR protocol, today announced it has partnered with the Borderless Tech Association to launch a regional hub in The Balkans dedicated to ongoing blockchain innovation, education and talent development throughout the region. 

Moneybase, a fintech subsidiary of Calamatta Cuschieri Finance Group - Malta’s largest independent financial services firm which pioneered the Maltese financial services industry in 1971, has launched Moneybase, a new digital payments app and card issuing platform using the award-winning payments platform, TranzAxis, from Compass Plus Technologies.

Worldline (Euronext: WLN), a global leader in payments services, has been named as one of the top places to work for women after being listed as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 in the UK.

• Powwi will deploy BPC’s SmartVista Suite to answer the needs of its customers in Colombia’s fast growing digital economy

• SmartVista caters to banking solutions such as e-wallets, instant payment, fraud management, switch, card management, merchant management, and ATM management. This platform provides cards and payments processing and provides both issuing and acquiring functions. 

New study finds that the pandemic encouraged large firms to enhance technological capacity and smaller firms to capitalize on a first-mover advantage