Hero Innovation Group Inc. (“Hero Group” or the “Company”), a Vancouver-based fintech solutions provider, is pleased to announce the launch of Hero Financials^TM (“Hero”), a full-service alternative-to-banking solution for the Canadian market. Hero is designed specifically for young Canadian consumers, with a total addressable market of up to 6 million users.

The embedded finance market is expected to grow to tenfold its 2020-value by 2025 - just three years from now. The term has been generating buzz and changing the financial services landscape by improving access and lowering costs. But it's not quite as new as many people think.

Total Expert, the CRM and customer engagement platform purpose-built for modern financial institutions, is rolling out new capabilities to help banks, lenders, and credit unions fill their pipelines with high-quality leads as market conditions have made capitalizing on every opportunity more critical.  

United Fintech, the fintech one-stop shop for banks, hedge funds, and asset managers, has expanded its team in New York with two new appointments.

Mitch Vine joins the rapidly growing firm as Head of New Business Sales in the Americas and Danny Finnerty has been appointed as a Sales Executive.

Founderpath, the platform 6,500 bootstrapped B2B SaaS founders use to get capital, announced $145m in debt and equity funding to continue helping more B2B SaaS founders hit $10m in revenue without selling equity.

Founderpath chose to bypass traditional VC’s and instead raised from a collection of top SaaS founders. These founders include:

Simpl, India’s foremost checkout network, has announced a partnership with ConfirmTkt to simplify payments. Through this alliance, Simpl will enable convenient digital payments to ConfirmTkt’s vast customer base, empowering them to plan their train travel better.

AQRU plc, a company specialising in decentralised finance (“DeFi”), announces today that Digby Try, Executive Director and Co-founder of AQRU, has been appointed Chief Commercial Officer of the Company.  

As concerns around sustainability have grown exponentially in the last few years, the focus on how to measure environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks has swiftly sharpened for the global trade community.

Today the British Business Bank announces that it has accredited the first batch of five lenders under the new iteration of the Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS).