xRapid, Ripple’s cross border payments product that minimizes liquidity costs, is powered by the superior speed, low transaction cost and scalability of the digital asset XRP. 

The partnership is the latest milestone in SugarCRM’s journey and will accelerate its strategy of driving global growth with its award-winning relationship management platform. Accel-KKR has committed substantial investment dollars to drive product innovation, services, expanded capabilities and a strategic acquisition program.

Iconiq Funds, the newly-launched asset management arm of Germany-based Iconiq Holding, the team behind the world's first decentralized VC group, Iconiq Lab, is launching a series of digital asset index funds beginning in Q4 2018.

Crypto Facilities, a world-leading cryptocurrency trading platform, today announced the launch of the first BitcoinCash-Dollar (BCH/USD) futures to be offered by a regulated firm. The new derivatives contract will start trading at 4pm UK time on Friday 17^th August. 

As in almost every industry, those in the financial services sector hold swathes of data about every aspect of their organisation. In an ideal world, all departments within a  business should have easy access to this data to help guide intelligent decisions. The reality, however, is totally different. Any data that is available is either hard to access or in a state that cannot be easily interpreted. This means organisations are potentially missing out on useful insights.

Dealing with the data deluge

 On the dot, the machine learning-driven last mile delivery start-up, and part of CitySprint Group, has announced today it has received an additional investment of £8 million from its parent company, which is itself PE-funded.

E-Invoicing has become an important topic around the world. With several government initiatives mandating e-invoicing and real-time tax controls a diversity of challenges need to be faced by corporates and the public sector. Together with the digitization of other business critical processes e-invoicing is being implemented at a very fast pace in order for governments and companies to benefit from significant cost savings and to enhance compliance. 

Robotic Process Automation has the power to streamline processes, empower staff and increase customer satisfaction says Kulpreet Singh, Managing Director - EMEA, UiPath

Data is all around us and finance and accounting departments are well versed in dealing with it daily. While processing and collecting large amounts of data is often predictable manual work, the sheer volumes can be challenging for enterprise companies.

Amazon.com to tap the financial comparison market and check out Europe's pioneering insurance companies if they can contribute to a possible launch in the UK. 

It was mentioned on Reuters that three industry executives had already held talks on this topic with Amazon. One said the talks were part of several discussions Amazon is having with insurers. A second said there were no imminent launch plans.