Colt Technology Services has today announced that, in partnership with the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, CityFibre, it is enhancing the reach of its UK metro network in eight regional cities across the UK; Leeds, Bristol, Slough, Bracknell, Reading, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Summary: A weaker than expected read on the Eurozone Sentix Investor Confidence, a diffusion index which is a leading indicator of economic health weighed on the already anaemic Euro. The shared currency slid 0.22% against the US Dollar to 1.1280 (1.1307 yesterday). This lifted the Dollar Index (DXY), where the Euro has almost 60% of the weight, to 96.30 from 96.17, up 0.15%. In the bond markets, interest rate traders bolstered bets on a faster pace of Fed rate increases by pushing US treasury yields higher.

Flow Traders and MarketAxess Holdings Inc.today announced that Flow Traders has committed to become a name-disclosed liquidity provider in U.S. high yield corporate bonds, Euro-denominated investment grade and high yield bonds and emerging market sovereign bonds through the MarketAxess trading platform. Flow Traders is also actively contributing streaming prices as a market maker for U.S. high yield corporate bonds on the anonymous Live Markets™ order book. 

The global payments company, SimplyPayMe, has integrated a software product through Smart Code Engine for credit card scanning in their mobile app. The integration enables SimplyPayMe merchants to receive frictionless, contact-free card payments through a software-based Point-Of-Sale (POS) system without having to manually type in numbers. 

• The acquisition will accelerate the deployment of personalised propositions at scale across the financial services industry, enabling up to 90% faster client onboarding.
• Appway’s award-winning low-code no-code workflow automation solution will extend FNZ’s position as the industry’s leading global wealth management platform and continues their investment in next-generation technology.

Certero, a leading innovator in the field Unified IT Hardware, Software, SaaS and Cloud Asset Management solutions, today announced that they have once again raised the bar with their security credentials, becoming Cyber Essentials Plus Certified.

This is the highest level of certification offered under the Cyber Essentials scheme, and is on top of Certero already being ISO 27001 Certified for Information Security Management.

For the fifth consecutive year, Muinmos has been included in the annual RegTech 100 - a list that recognises the world’s most innovative technology solution providers with products and services in compliance, risk management, information security and financial crime.

The pandemic had negatively impacted businesses worldwide. Sources of revenues became scarce due to lockdowns declared by governments. Vice President Kamala Harris and Harvard University both stated that about a third of the United States’ small businesses have closed down because of COVID-19.

 HPS, the leading global provider of payment solutions, today announced that UNObank, South East Asia’s first full-spectrum digital bank, has selected HPS’ PowerCARD solution for its card issuing activities in Asia.

The news follows the announcement that Singapore headquartered fintech UNOAsia, one of the primary incorporators of UNObank, has received approval by the Bangko Sentral Ng Pilipinas (BSP) to operate a digital bank in the Philippines.

Virtual IBAN and corporate account provider, Monneo, is excited to announce the launch of its new card acquiring service. The development allows the company to offer a full payment ecosystem to its customers and represents a true end-to-end solution.