• New business model: Pleo expands its European services and moves into the free price segment with its new ‘Free’ product offering.

• The new strategy comes as the scale-up moves to establish itself as a go-to spending solution for forward-thinking teams.

The mobile app is planned to communicate with GBT’s AI engine for intelligent health monitoring and alert capabilities

National Funding, Inc., one of the largest U.S. specialty finance companies serving small- and medium-sized businesses, announced the recent renewal and upsize of a $60.0 million senior secured warehouse line of credit. The facility, which includes an accordion to expand to $75.0 million, was provided by a prominent U.S.-based commercial bank. The facility will continue to be used by the Company to fund new originations and support additional growth of the platform.

Amazon Connect users across the globe can now leverage PCI Pal’s secure payments solutions for additional payment security and compliance options

the global provider of secure payment solutions – today announced a new integration with Amazon Connect to offer its customers worldwide with additional options for payment security and compliance with PCI Pal omnichannel secure payment solutions.

Exabel, a data and analytics platform for investment teams, is partnering with LinkUp to deliver a powerful new insights platform for LinkUp’s investment clients.

The LinkUp Data Insights Platform will give portfolio managers additional insights based on LinkUp’s job listings data. The platform delivers user-friendly dashboards, visualizations and KPI monitoring capabilities.  This assists investors in idea generation by spotting trend shifts in LinkUp’s jobs data.

“The slowing of sales throughout September reflects a challenging retail environment borne from issues like fuel and labour shortages. Overall sales performance was the weakest since January, and although total sales increased by 0.6% against 2020 levels, this marks a fall compared with the average of 3.1% growth throughout the past three months.  

• Investment marks first major foreign investment into a Sudanese technology business since sanctions were lifted in 2020 – a major milestone for the tech sector in the country.
• alsoug is the largest digital classifieds and marketplace nationwide and will now expand its reach into fintech and payments, becoming the largest digital payments network in Sudan.
• Fundraise co-led by Egypt-based Fawry and wider consortium of Western venture capital firms.

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M2P Fintech, Asia's largest API infrastructure company, today announced that it has secured US$35 million in a Series C financing. Tiger Global Management led the round with existing investors BEENEXT, Flourish Ventures, Omidyar Network India, 8i Ventures, Better Capital and the DMI Group via its investment vehicle Sparkle Fund participating in the round. 

Attivo Networks®, the experts in preventing identity privilege escalation and detecting lateral movement attacks, today announced the availability of a new research report conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and commissioned in part by Attivo Networks. The report focuses on Active Directory (AD), the directory-based identity services platform used by 90% of enterprises worldwide, exploring the obstacles and threats organizations face when protecting AD and how they adapt to address these growing concerns.

The collaboration will deliver an enhanced customer experience for StormPay’s customers and more control over their data.

Today, we are delighted to announce our partnership with StormPay, a London-based fintech company that provides embedded financial services for both business and personal customers. The collaboration will deliver a truly embedded and digital experience to StormPay’s customers.