• ‘Kingswood Go’ will allow clients to access their investments and hold all of their financial information online and in one place securely

• Kingswood Go will allow Kingswood to launch their own fully branded client app that delivers compliance confidence and builds client loyalty

• Providing a single client view, the portal will be available via desktop and mobile app and is driven by technology from wealthtech firm, moneyinfo

One in seven P2P investors use their smartphones primarily as financial instruments. At the same time, computers are preferable for investors when working with P2P sites. These are the results of the latest survey conducted by the investment platform Robocash. 

Financial institutions are adopting Open Banking and its capabilities at pace, but what will the future hold as wider financial services providers adopt similar technologies? 

Delivering new products and services

LPA, the capital market technology and advisory firm, today announced the hire of Paolo de Vito as the new Head of Business Development, Italy.

In his role, Paolo will lead the opening of the Italian branch of LPA and be responsible for the business development, strategy, and growth of LPA’s activity in the region. Paolo will be based in Italy and will work to help LPA’s clients to transform and digitise their activity, maximising productivity and ensure regulatory compliance.

Chargebacks911’s dispute and chargeback prevention services to combat fraud on all fronts using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection core protection capabilities

• Investment was led by Octopus Ventures and supported by early-backers Maven Capital Partners, bringing Delio’s total equity funding to $15.5m

• Delio’s white-label technology helps financial institutions like Barclays and UBS to share and manage private markets investment opportunities through a series of digital hubs

Unlocking Japanese acceptance landscape to boost preference for card payments at large scale is part of Worldline’s global growth strategy

Worldline, a global leader in payments services announced its business expansion to Japan, offering credit card payment processing for merchants nationwide. An economically mature, very secure market with conservative consumer habits, Japan offers a huge growth potential for card payments.

• TrueLayer’s platform offers a higher-converting, lower-fraud payment approach when compared to card and bank transfer.

Visa and Mastercard blocked multiple Russian financial institutions (FIs) from their networks to comply with government sanctions imposed after Russia invaded Ukraine, per Reuters. Both payment networks also said they are prepared to comply with any future sanctions.