Kantox, a leader in FX management solutions for businesses, has just closed its second venture debt financing deal with Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), the bank of the world’s most innovative businesses, enterprises and their investors.

The €5 million loan package is the second deal agreed between Kantox and SVB, with the first announced in December 2017. The new financing agreement underscores the appeal of Kantox’s growth story and SVB’s track record of investing in disruptive companies.

Singapore Airlines has partnered with Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world's leading companies, to ensure a frictionless payments experience for customers when they book online or in-app. Working with Adyen, Singapore Airlines has enjoyed an increase in authorization rates, flexibility on fraud risk management and richer data insights, resulting in a more seamless payment experience for its customers across the globe.

Econocom UK & IRL, a leading provider of digital transformation solutions, has appointed Keith Richardson as its new Director of Corporate Relationships. The appointment is part of the company’s ongoing commitment to the UK and follows an eight per cent year-on-year revenue growth for the Econocom Group.

PPRO Group, with its co-founders, is pleased to announce the set-up of the European Third-Party Provider Association (ETPPA), a new entity that strengthens Third Party Providers’ (TPP) interests around the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The ETPPA formalises the existing Future of European Fintech (FoEF) coalition into an official non-profit TPP trade association.

ieDigital was today shortlisted in two categories at the Credit Awards 2019. The categories are ‘Excellence in open banking’ and ‘Best rebrand’. The winners will be announced by host Jimmy Carr on 16 May at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.

The Credit Awards, organised by Credit Strategy and sponsored by Experian, is the flagship event for the UK’s credit industry. The awards recognise and reward individuals, teams and organisations in UK risk, credit and collections, and ieDigital is shortlisted in two of its newest categories, described as:

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments, and Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has announced its AI-driven account screening capability, ‘Firco Automated Alert Reduction’, which increases the level of accuracy in detecting and evaluating screening matches during the KYC process.

Rabo eBusiness - the world’s first bank-led Digital Identity Service Provider - a partnership between Rabobank, a financial institution, and Signicat, a leader in verified digital identity solutions has been recognised by Celent as the winner of the Model Bank award for Identity Management.

Refinitiv, one of the world’s largest providers of financial markets data and infrastructure, has introduced real-time coverage for the BRVM (Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières) for equity and fixed income markets.

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, quantum computing and blockchain all have the potential to drive significant disruption in the next few years.

• Following the Post-Closing Acceptance Period, which ended yesterday, approximately 97.02% of Gemalto shares have now been tendered to the Thales offer
• Settlement of Shares tendered during the Post-Closing Acceptance Period will take place on 18 April 2019
• Thales will initiate the statutory buy-out proceedings as soon as possible in order to obtain 100% of the Shares
• Thales and Gemalto will ask Euronext to delist the Gemalto Shares shortly after Gemalto’s 2019 annual general meeting, to be held on 28 May 2019