A.T. Kearney, a leading management consulting firm, has appointed Simon Kent as Global Head of Financial Services.  Simon joined A.T Kearney as a Partner in its London headquarters in 2013 from Navigant, where he served as Head of Financial Services. With over 25 years’ experience of advising financial services clients, Simon will be tasked with growing A.T. Kearney’s footprint in the financial services sector globally and leading the firm’s investment into the sector. 

Dimelo, a RingCentral Company, the leading cloud-based digital customer engagement platform, announces its integration with the WhatsApp Business solution that allows businesses to interact with customers in a fast and simple way directly through WhatsApp. 

Commenting on today’s publication of a Government consultation on plans to repay HMRC ahead of pension schemes, trade creditors, and lenders in insolvency procedures, Stuart Frith, President of insolvency and restructuring trade body R3, says:

Baker Hill, a leading provider of technology solutions for common loan origination, risk and relationship management, CECL compliance, and smart data analytics, announced that New Valley Bank & Trust has selected Baker Hill NextGen® for Commercial and Small Business Lending to help the bank develop efficiencies in the lending process and modernize the borrower experience.

BT today announced that leading cryptocurrency exchange and custodian Gemini Trust LLC (Gemini), a New York-based trust company, has joined the BT Radianz Cloud. The move provides Gemini access to one of the world’s largest, secure networked financial cloud communities — which consists of thousands of brokers, institutions, exchanges and clearing and settlement houses — while providing community members access to the growing cryptocurrency market. 

Perkbox, Europe’s fastest growing employee experience platform, is today announcing the continuation of its global expansion plans by opening new offices in Sydney, Australia.The announcement follows only months after the company’s expansion into France, which achieved faster success than expected, and the launch of its three new products in the UK.

EBA CLEARING announced today that its instant payment system RT1 has further expanded its coverage in the German market and now reaches a critical mass of payment service providers (PSPs) operating in Germany. With this large-scale connection to EBA CLEARING’s pan-European infrastructure platform, the German banking community has laid the foundation for rolling out euro real-time payment products and services to its customers nationwide.

Surecomp®, the global trade finance fintech leader, announced today the launch of SureStore, an industry first app store offering best-in-class applications for banks and corporates trade finance departments. Today's announcement comes on the heels of Surecomp’s successful roll-out of APIsure, its open API platform that enables the rapid adoption of these new products and services.

The AnaCap-backed (http://www.anacapfp.com) heidelpay Group, one of the fastest-growing fintech service providers in Germany today announces the acquisition of point-of-sale specialist Alpha-Cash Payment GmbH.

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) has launched  CitiDirect BE^® Digital Onboarding setting new standards of excellence for client experience.

The new digital account opening experience for institutional clients is now available in North America and across six countries in Western Europe. This ground-breaking solution will be rolled out across the rest of EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America in the coming quarters.