The Board of Directors of SIX has appointed Bjørn Sibbern as new CEO effective 1 January 2025. Bjørn Sibbern will succeed Jos Dijsselhof, who will step down to pursue a new professional opportunity in the Middle East after seven years with SIX. Jos Dijsselhof successfully developed SIX commercially and expanded it internationally.

Soldo, the proactive spend management solution that frees progressive businesses to accomplish more, today announced its Winter 2024 Updates. Available today to Soldo customers, the new features help companies of all sizes scale their finance operations.

The new updates enable better control over teams' spending, automate employee onboarding and offboarding processes, and track CO2e emissions, ensuring compliance and efficiency across all financial processes and sustainability initiatives.

Investment platform Lightyear announces that it received direct authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) earlier this year, and will be relaunching for consumers and businesses in the UK, with FSCS protection, ISAs and more. 

Global fintech SumUp, one of the fastest-growing fintech companies globally, has achieved a significant milestone by processing over 1 billion transactions on an annual basis. 

European Regtech scale-up Salv has announced the launch of its Collaborative Scenario Library, an innovative tool designed to help AML teams improve their transaction and customer monitoring in order to catch more financial crime.

Research from Moneyhub, the Open Banking data and payments platform, has revealed that younger generations are more likely to have been victims of financial fraud than older generations, who have traditionally been seen as the primary target. The research, which surveyed over 2000 people, brings into focus the extent and scale of the issue across the country and across the generations.

Bank payment company GoCardless has announced a partnership with Total Grassroots and kit manufacturer Kelme to simplify payment collection for grassroots football clubs and kit out their team.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform, reports today that a growing number of UK SMEs are turning to embedded financing to secure vital capital ahead of the most important sales period of the year—Black Friday and Christmas. YouLend data reveals a 30% surge in financing applications leading up to Black Friday in 2024, with ecommerce platforms being the main driver of this jump, illustrating the growing demand for flexible financing options at the point-of-need.

Data is the fuel that keeps the engine of any organisation running efficiently. Its growing importance is becoming a frequent topic of conversation in boardrooms and strategy meetings. Companies increasingly know the need to protect their sensitive information and continue investing heavily in cybersecurity measures. However, this approach has a critical oversight: The assumption that investing in cybersecurity alone is sufficient to safeguard data.