SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Christopher Pennington as Chief Revenue Officer. This new role will strengthen SteelEye’s customer engagement and commercial functions as the firm continues to scale globally.

Paga, the payments and financial services ecosystem for Africa, has launched its ‘Making Life Possible’ brand campaign. The campaign tells the story of the Paga Orange ship, which has empowered people to simplify their lives and businesses for over a decade.

Paga is one of Africa’s most pioneering fintech companies. Since its inception, the company has been building an ecosystem to enable the African consumer to send, pay, and bank digitally.

DKK Partners, a leading fintech company, which specialises in emerging markets (EM) and foreign exchange (FX) liquidity, has opened a Ghana operation. The office, which will serve as a hub for the booming African market, will be led by entrepreneur Sam Nti, who joins as director, and will include an additional four full-time staff.

Temenos today announced that a leading US financial institution is extending its relationship with Temenos to include its international private banking business. The Temenos wealth management platform will support the bank’s strategic transition to a cloud-based core banking system and help drive growth in Europe and the Asia-Pacific (APAC) as it looks to transform its operations and drive efficiencies at scale while offering first-class services and products to its clients.

SEON is advising online businesses to batten down the hatches, as online crooks prepare to make one final fraudulent push before the holidays. Leveraging its own data and customer insights, the company believes more fraud attempts will be made during the week of 12th December than in any other week in 2022.

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TrueLayer, Europe’s leading open banking platform, today announced its collaboration with innovative European crypto payment platform Swaps.app. Estonia-based Swaps.app is a crypto and fiat payment gateway providing a platform for businesses to offer cryptocurrency purchases and payments on their websites.

Leading UK food and catering supplier JJ Foodservice has partnered with Solaris and Ecospend to implement an open banking payment solution to enable its 100,000 customers to pay for orders direct from their business bank accounts instead of through card transactions.

Rapid Finance, a market leader in helping small businesses find sustainable and customized financing solutions through a fast and simple application process, announced the availability of its new standalone Software as a Service (SaaS) Regtech module, SMB Disclosure Service, to enable business lenders and financing companies to quickly and easily produce compliant disclosure statements at a state-by-state level.

Fintech Paylink Solutions has raised over £1,350 for tech charity Computer Aid and mental health charity Mind with its latest Christmas-themed fundraiser.

Mind offers advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. Computer Aid provides access and education to technology to create better learning environments across more than 100 countries.