Caduceus, the world’s first metaverse protocol with decentralised edge rendering launches a video competition this week with a first prize of half a million coins for whoever finds the most hidden logos in their new video: Visions of the Metaverse.

• Lending set to increase considerably as Allica Bank anticipates it will make £1 billion in committed lending offers in 2022 to established small and medium-sized businesses
• Allica increases maximum customer exposure for asset finance and the care home sector to £1 million and £10 million respectively

Allica Bank – the fintech challenger bank dedicated to empowering Britain’s established small and medium sized businesses – is pledging to make over £1 billion in committed loan offers in 2022. 

The PayTech receives the "Guido Carli Elite" award 

for the best extraordinary operation for the mergers with Nets and SIA, 

while the technological solution SoftPOS wins the Innovation of the Year award. 

Nexi, Europe's PayTech leader in the digital payments market, has been awarded in two categories at the MF Banking Awards 2022, the annual event organized by Milano Finanza to reward the best innovations and operations in the financial sector in Italy.

• Mediobanca reduces time to market required for new issues via new process using smart contracts and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology), confirming its position at the cutting edge of investment certificates automation.
• Project wins “Innovation Award - Open Innovation: open investment certificate”at MF Banking Awards.

Today, NTT DATA UK announced that it has appointed Fernando Apezteguia as the new CEO for NTT DATA UK & Ireland. Apezteguia will now lead the business after having been part of the organisation for more than 20 years, with the aim of accelerating its growth further and guiding the business as it broadens its services across all industries in the UK and in Ireland.  

Helcim reveals its newest talent acquisition strategy in hopes to attract top tech candidates to the scale-up.

As a tech company looking to scale quickly, Helcim announces today that it will be going bold with its new compensation program and offering employees  NFTs in lieu of traditional dollar figure salaries. The program was secretly piloted in Q1 of 2022 and has seen overwhelming success in attracting high caliber candidates.

"UPI has crossed a significant milestone by breaching $1-trillion mark in transactional values in  FY22. We are delighted to see the exponential rise of the adoption of UPI, especially in the last two years driven by the pandemic. Both the volume and value of UPI transactions have doubled in a year's time.

Mercuryo, a leading crypto payments company, has announced its integration with renowned cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX. 

Company’s NWASSA financial technology platform more than doubles revenue year-on-year

Financial services leader selects nCino to streamline origination, underwriting and portfolio management within its Small Business Banking Business