Detected, the world’s first agnostic business verification platform, has completed its £600,000 seed round led by Hong Kong based EmergeVest within just 72 hours. Stephen Garland, Chief Technology and Product Officer at Trustpilot, has also joined Detected’s advisory board and is one of many high-profile investors that include:

Copper.co, the London-based digital asset infrastructure provider, today announced CoinFLEX, the first physically delivered cryptocurrency futures exchange, as the latest adopter of Copper’s ClearLoop framework.

Copper will be the first institutional custodian to support off-exchange settlement at CoinFLEX, an exchange which uniquely offers a range of additional crypto products including repo markets, futures spreads, one-click borrow/lending, and the yield bearing stablecoin, flexUSD.

Dreams (https://www.getdreams.com/en/b2b/), the Stockholm-born fintech empowering millennials to save and feel better about their money, today announces a strategic partnership with Ukrainian commercial bank UKRSIBBANK, a subsidiary of French international bank BNP Paribas Group.

Three big calls for 2021

Changing trade patterns, changed employment patterns and soaring fines from regulators are big legacies from 2020.

Global analytics and decision management provider FICO has partnered with Linktera, a consultancy and digital solutions provider specializing in risk management, to advance the use of AI-powered credit risk technology in Turkey and Middle East. Linktera will sell and implement FICO’s decision management solutions that help banks and other credit grantors manage risk and expand lending growth.

FinTech Connect, the trade show that connects the global fintech ecosystem, today revealed the priority for one in ten fintech firms over the next year is survival.

tonik, the first digital-only neobank in the Philippines, announced its collaboration with solutions provider CRIF for the automation of its loan origination and collection systems. The partnership will enable tonik to increase its efficiency, and minimize its costs and risks in credit decision making and collection.

European digital bank Advanzia today announces its partnership with digital banking technology provider Backbase, a collaboration that will allow Advanzia to drive digital transformation and optimise customer experience. The long-term partnership includes the implementation of Backbase-as-a-Service (Baas) – a cloud solution that enables banks to develop and release new digital services.

In this day and age, there is an app for everything. Your diet, your schedule, your pleasures, your sleep, your money – just tap on the icon on the screen, and you’ll have all you need. Wonderful, isn’t it? To the extent that it is pretty unclear sometimes who does what: your phone manages you through the apps, or you manage your life through your phone. No irony. Or maybe just a little bit.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global payments technology company, today announced its commitment to support the country’s banks to strengthen digital payment capabilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).