Irish start-up Webio, a leader in Conversational AI in the credit, collections and payments industry, has today announced a series A funding round led by Finch Capital.

Webio is primed to scale-up following the digital shift during the pandemic and the uncertain economic climate to make difficult conversations about payments easy through their Conversation AI. 

Narmi, a leading provider of open digital banking technologies, today announced $35M in Series B funding co-led by Greycroft and existing investors NEA and Picus Capital.

Narmi is one of the fastest-growing companies servicing financial institutions in the United States and plans to leverage the new capital to develop its digital banking solutions more broadly, partner with new financial institutions, and accelerate the digital modernization of the banking industry. 

Today Ascenda, the global loyalty technology company, announces a strategic partnership with Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF), the leading Saudi bank that has established itself as the most innovative financial services company in the region.
 
This best-in-class loyalty solution will tap into BSF’s JANA Rewards Program premium customer base and unlock critical high-value spending across the entire banking relationship.
 

Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, today announced that its TT platform won the award for Best Sell-Side Execution Management System (EMS) at TradingTech Insight USA Awards 2022 last evening in New York.

Proportunity, a London-based neolender, today announces it is working on bringing the UK’s first zero deposit mortgage product to market later this year. The announcement was made as part of its crowdfunding campaign with Seedrs to grow the business and help more people in the UK become homeowners sooner.

Nexi S.p.A. ("Nexi" and, together with its subsidiaries, "Nexi Group") announces that Nets CEE d.o.o., a company under Croatian law, part of Nexi Group and a subsidiary of Concardis Holding GmbH, reached an agreement with Privredna Banka Zagreb d.d. ("PBZ Bank") and PBZ Card d.o.o. ("PBZ Card") - a company under Croatian law, indirectly controlled by Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A.

PPRO, the leading provider of digital payments infrastructure, has appointed former Wayfair Europe finance chief Rahul Raswant as its new Chief Financial Officer. Rahul takes over the position from Götz Möller, who is stepping down after more than three years at the company. Rahul brings diverse international experience to the role. Prior to joining PPRO, he was the European Head of Finance at Wayfair for three years.

ION Markets, a global provider of trading platforms, analytics, and risk management solutions for capital markets, is delighted that ION MarketFactory won Best Managed Services Solution for Trading at the TradingTech Insight (TTI) USA Awards 2022.

BMLL Technologies has won the “Best Management Services Solution for Market Data” award at the TradingTech Insight Awards USA 2022. The award recognises technology providers and vendors offering exceptional and innovative trading infrastructure and data solutions dedicated to the challenges faced by firms operating in the US trading environment. 

BMLL was awarded “Best Management Services Solution for Market Data'' for the expansion of its world-class product offering to include global futures. 

Babel Finance, announced late last month that it had secured $80 million in a fresh investment round, valuing the crypto lender and asset manager at $2 billion. Jeneration Capital, Circle Ventures, and 10T Holdings joined current investors Dragonfly Capital and BAI Capital in the Series B investment round. A number of family offices from the Asia-Pacific area also participated in the round, according to Babel.