Relio, a Swiss SME banking startup founded by Lav Odorovic, the co-founder of German digital bank Penta, has raised €3 million.

Relio is launching a digital payment account for business customers founded on a platform built to overcome the regulatory and compliance barriers that hamper similar ventures.

Over the past few years, data management has become more and more important to organisations. Trustworthy data replaces that gut feeling and drives innovation, customer experience, and decision-making, while also reducing operational risk and negative impact on overall business reputation.

Glia, the leading provider of Digital Customer Service (DCS), has completed another year of growth that included a strategic acquisition, expansion into Latin American markets and new funding that brought the company's valuation to more than $1B.

Forter, the Trust Platform for digital commerce, today announced the appointment of Ozge Tuncel Ozcan, a proven customer success leader, as chief customer officer (CCO). In this newly-created role, Ozcan will oversee the company’s customer success functions, including delivery and implementation, analytics and risk.

ASA is an embedded fintech solution that connects financial institutions with customer-facing fintechs in a secure, compliant and easy-to-implement marketplace.

Plum, the smart money app, today reveals its new ‘money motivated’ positioning with a TV spot and digital campaign created by Founders Makers. The new campaign communicates Plum’s holistic offering to help people save more and build their wealth, during a time when managing finances is arguably more important than ever. 

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Intellias, a global technology partner to Fortune 500 enterprises, has announced its role in supporting Germany-based FinCompare, a financing platform for SMEs, with its full-cycle development of the Software-as-a-Service market network and subsequent financing from Volksbanken Berlin.

Togg, a global mobility technologies and ecosystem provider has selected METACO, the market-leading provider of digital asset custody orchestration technology to complex, global financial institutions, to underpin and secure the custody and governance of digital assets.

New research from global information and insights company, TransUnion, shows that individual organisations are fighting off more than 500 cyber attacks each year and spending an average of £600K annually on protection, defence and response to cyber threats.