Award winning law firm, Blacks Solicitors has appointed Richard Morton to lead the Banking team nationally.

Richard joins Blacks as a partner and head of Banking law following his time leading the banking teams at Squire Patton Boggs and Gateley. He will work closely with Blacks’ head of Corporate law, Nigel Hoyle, to further grow Blacks’ six-partner Corporate team and to develop a stand-alone Banking team.

The tech/fintech industry is made up of people from many different disciplines. I’m the perfect example of this, having originally done my undergraduate degree in engineering before doing finance for my Master’s degree. I then went into the banking sector for 25 years before moving to Paynetics. My move into fintech was motivated by a need to explore what was beyond traditional banking, recognising that this industry was where a lot of the exciting innovations were happening.

Financial IT: How would you define your role in fintech?

Awarded Silver Class Distinction in S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2022 and included in the FTSE4Good Index Series for 3rd Consecutive Year

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the cloud banking platform, has extended its leadership position in the S&P Sustainability and FTSE4Good Indices, two of the world’s most influential ESG performance ratings.

-         Tax professionals contribute for 66% of the searches on the platform for business professionals

-         Mumbai and Delhi witnessing maximum searches for tax professionals and loan agents

 As the financial year-end approaches, tax professionals were the most searched business professionals with Tier-I and Tier-II cities witnessing similar traction, reports the latest Just Dial Consumer Insights. 

Announces Gift of Education for its 1 million merchant network towards women and daughters in their family, free of cost for a year

Launches brand film celebrating Women Nanopreneurs and women empowerment in rural India

The Bank of London, the leading-edge technology company and the world's first purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, today announces it has become a Directly Connected Settling Participant (DCSP) of the Faster Payment System, the UK's 24*7 real-time payments infrastructure.

The mission of ADDX is to democratise private market investing – expanding access from institutions to accredited individuals, and ultimately to retail investors, she says

Singapore Exchange-backed private market platform ADDX has announced that Oi-Yee Choo will be appointed its Chief Executive Officer, subject to the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s (MAS) approval. 

To those within the world of finance, the potential of embedded banking services seems nearly unlimited. Some have already predicted that the sector will reach an estimated global value of $7 trillion in the next decade – a figure so large that every financial business in the marketplace is sitting up and taking notice.