China Construction Bank (Chongqing and Singapore branches) and ADDX have entered a partnership to help domestic investors in China participate in the country’s official offshore investment scheme. The financial institutions announced today the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that paves the way for them to work together on the custody and distribution of a US$200 million quota allocation under the QDLP scheme.

 DKK Partners, a leading fintech company, which specialists emerging markets (EM) foreign exchange (FX) liquidity, has announced a major global expansion as the company’s revenues surpass £63m - up from £3m the previous year.

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Financial Risk Solutions (FRS), provider of the award-winning investment administration software Invest|Pro^TM to asset owners, life insurance and investment management companies worldwide, today announced the appointment of Thomas Patterson to the role of Vice President Sales North America.

Leading digital broker Stake is again breaking barriers for retail investors in Australia with the launch of a brand new product, Stock Lending. Investors will be able to earn passive income on the U.S. stocks they hold with Stake by having them lent out through the securities lending market. 

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Creating a business is tough but maintaining a business and making it successful is even tougher. According to Business 4 Beginners, at least one in five (20%) start-ups fail within their first year. By year three, more than 60% of new businesses have failed. That doesn’t mean you’ll fail. What it does mean, however, is that success can be hard to come by and that surviving, based on the statistics, is tough.

Satchel.eu announces the launch of a partnership with the Plastics for Change initiative to prevent plastic pollution and support social change.

ACA Group (ACA), the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, announced that Marie Luchet has joined the firm as Managing Director of ESG, heading up the practice’s strategy and vision for Europe.

The UK’s Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) yesterday announced plans to carry out two market reviews focusing on card fees - one on scheme and processing fees, and the other on cross-border interchange fees.

Small business credit platform Tillful, backed by ING Ventures, Experian Ventures, Bitrock Capital, and Katalyst Ventures, announced today that it's partnering with Experian^® to help establish credit profiles for businesses that are new to credit or otherwise credit invisible and thereby potentially expand the range of credit options that can be made available to them.