Uber introduced Uber Money, a team within Uber working on financial products and technologies that deliver additional value for the Uber community, all at Uber speed.

We’re excited to kick things off with several new features and improvements coming this year:

Trade Ledger, the ground-breaking business lending platform, which automates commercial lending processes for global banks and alternative finance providers, today announces strategic investment in a £1.5M round led by Hambro Perks, to further accelerate revenue growth.

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Red Deer, the financial technology company dedicated to enhancing the performance of active investment managers, is pleased to announce that Charles Stanley, one of the UK’s leading wealth management firms with £24.4bn in assets under management, has selected its Research Management solution. The solution will enable Charles Stanley to seamlessly integrate MiFID II compliance across their investment process, whilst being better placed to fully understand the value of their research.

Polish consumers are now able to shop and pay at more places online direct from their mobile phone via BLIK, thanks to a partnership between PPRO, the leading global payments platform, and the Polish Payment Standard (PPS), operator of BLIK. International retailers wanting to close sales with Polish customers can also receive payment simply and securely via BLIK.

Marqeta, the first global modern card issuing platform, announced the results today of its new digital banking survey, which found that demand for physical bank branches continues to decline as digital banking platforms offer more seamless access to remote money management tools.

TransferGo, one of the world’s fastest growing money transfer companies, has today announced that it has now completed over five million transactions, with its user base continuing to grow in the thousands each day. To support this rapid growth, the remittance company has made four senior hires from some of the biggest names in the technology and financial services sector like PayPal and Santander and launched its service in four new markets making it available in over 50 countries.  

Ahead of its highly anticipated launch in 2020, new SME banking entrant Recognise has appointed cloud banking provider Mambu. Recognise’s appointment of Mambu and its market leading cloud-native solution, will transform and improve banking service levels by enhanced transparency, communication and speed of transactions for SMEs. 

Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints™) today launched its Touchless 2.0 platform, combining the convenience of face recognition with the security of iris, to meet demand from smartphone and emerging IoT OEMs. 

The new platform – which can be leveraged independently or as part of a multimodal biometric authentication solution together with fingerprint touch sensors – enables an improved user experience that works indoors or outside, in daylight or in rain. Fingerprints’ touchless solution is beneficial for multiple use cases including mobile devices, payments, automotive and access.

Capitalise.com, the leading business funding platform for accountants, has appointed ex Receipt Bank CRO, Nelson Da Silva, as Chief Revenue Officer. The new hire comes following a period of growth for the company, which closed a £3.5m funding round in February 2019, subsequently doubling its staff headcount, and confirms Capitalise.com’s position as an accounting technology business.