Research from the CBI and Finastra, canvassing the opinions of UK small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), suggests that there’s a gap between the ambition of firms to trade internationally and the reality of doing so. While just 44% of businesses surveyed currently engage in international trade, only 23% said they were not interested in doing so. One third of respondents believe there’s potential value, but do not trade internationally due to perceived barriers and a lack of support.

Temenos today launched the next generation of its AI-driven, Corporate Lending solution to enable banks to consolidate global commercial loan portfolios and unify servicing all on the Temenos banking platform.

Encompass Corporation, the provider of the leading Know Your Customer (KYC) automation platform, has published a landmark whitepaper analysing trends in financial crime compliance across 2022 and providing an understanding of what they mean for banks in 2023.

iDenfy, a global all-in-one identity verification and fraud prevention tech startup, announced the launching of a brand new partnership program. It will enable iDenfy’s partners to earn commissions while building an enhanced growth strategy based on two program options, Referral and Technology/Solution. 

Today, finance software startup Quartr and investment platform Lightyear announce a partnership to bring Quartr’s convenient access to earnings calls audios, reports and slide decks to the Lightyear platform.

In a move designed to optimize user experiences and filter out fraud attempts, online fraud prevention experts, SEON has partnered with challenger bank, tbi bank, to leverage its Machine Learning based fraud detection platform. 

Jack Henry™ announced today that it is expanding its credit card offering with the Agent Credit Card Program provided by TIB, N.A. (The Independent BankersBank). Texas-based TIB has more than $3 billion in assets and is the nation’s largest bankers’ bank, based on both total assets and number of clients, currently supporting approximately 1,400 community banks.

Surprisingly, the number of UK tech M&A deals in 2022 was the second highest on record, according to research from tech-focused investment bank ICON Corporate Finance.

Instant Financial, the pioneer of fee-free, responsible earned wage access (EWA) solutions, today unveiled its new website, brand positioning and card design to reflect the company’s revolutionary leadership in on-demand pay. Since its founding in 2015, Instant has built the most comprehensive, fee–free earned wage access platform to date.

Currencycloud, the experts in simplifying business in a multi-currency world, has partnered with UK-based venture capital platform Vauban, to enable the platform to be more accessible and permit global investors to launch and run their special purpose vehicles (SPVs) both easily and instantly.