For over two years, Covid-19 disrupted global trade. Torben Sauer, CEO of Conpend, explains how, as traditional manual documentary checking became infeasible, AI and automation came to the rescue, ensuring trade finance and global trade could continue to flow – and fuelling the case for accelerated adoption of digital processes in trade finance across the world. 

AML RightSource, the leading global provider of Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”), Know Your Customer (“KYC”), and Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) compliance solutions, unveiled its new brand which reflects the company’s global transformation and the integrated nature of its financial crime compliance portfolio. 

Prograd, the fintech startup dedicated to helping young people understand finance, has today announced its $2.5m seed round. The company, founded by two recent university graduates in London, is a platform allowing users to set up financial goals and find personalised paths to either earn, save or borrow their way to their goals - to promote financial literacy for Gen-Zers. 

Love Ventures, the venture capital firm, has today announced that it has appointed Carolyn Maddox as Senior Advisor and is welcoming Alex Packham as a Venture Partner. The appointments come as Love Ventures launches its third and largest fund to date with a close at the start of next year.

A challenging year ahead will demand a balance between bold data use and governance. What do the data experts think? We’ve got the top five predictions from TIBCO’s leading data thinkers.

Utimaco, a leading global provider of IT security solutions, today announces its partnership with Spencer Technologies, the leading provider of end-to-end IT life cycle solutions for every type of major corporation in the retail market.

Tradeteq, the technology provider for securitisation-as-a-service and bank asset distribution, is expanding into private debt and real assets to help banks, other asset sellers and institutional investors overcome the barriers to trading instruments such as direct lending, infrastructure and real-estate debt.  

In March 2022, the UK Government introduced a new piece of legislation called the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (the ‘Act’). This legislation’s main aim is to create a public register of overseas entities owning UK property.

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Inspera, the leading global digital assessment and proctoring SaaS provider,

Allianz Trade, the world leader in trade credit insurance, Two, the pioneering business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce payments platform, and Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), one of the Top Trade Finance banks in the banking sector, have partnered to provide the first global B2B Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) solution for large multinational corporates.