FinecoBank announces funds from International Asset Management (IAM) are now available on its investing platform.

IAM is one of the oldest independent asset management firms specialising in Hedge Funds and Alternative UCITS investments, with a proven track record of over 30 years.

This announcement follows on from earlier announcements that funds from AXA, BNY Mellon Investment Management, Invesco, Vontobel and Wellington joined the Fineco platform this year.

More than a quarter of decision-makers in buy-side financial firms (28%) cite a fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest data management challenge they face.

Russia is the largest country in the world.  Covering one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited area, its size makes it impossible to ignore – particularly for international ecommerce businesses looking for the next big growth opportunity.

For many consumer brands, Russia’s 21 republics, are virgin territory.  As such they represent a tempting prospect for several reasons.   

Trov (www.trov.com), a global leader in embedded insurance, today announces that Hamilton Fraser (www.hamiltonfraser.co.uk), a leading provider of insurance and services to the private rented sector, has signed-on as one of Trov’s newest partners, enabling the insurer to offer digital insurance products to its customers by deploying Trov’s white-labelled solution.

Phos, the fintech behind the leading software-only Point of Sale (SoftPoS), has teamed up with German fintech Wellet to enable merchants to accept contactless payments using their smartphone.

Fime has been empaneled as an official certifier by India’s DigiSahamati Foundation (Sahamati) to support the organic and sustainable growth of the country’s open banking account aggregator ecosystem.

Newly launched clinical tech provider, Comentis, has today announced that it closed a pre-launch funding round at £200,000, against a pre-revenue valuation of £2million. Funding has been secured from a number of senior figures from legal and financial services, with the support of Invest West.

 LPA Group, the capital market technology and innovation leader, today announced that Mark Reeves will join the firm as a senior advisor. 

Mark will be based in London and his focus will be to accelerate growth in LPA’s American and British software and consulting businesses, building on the firm’s strong client base in continental Europe. He will help develop new solutions for the complex capital markets environments, market infrastructure providers and the wider financial sector while building out a team inside LPA. 

Fidelity International (Fidelity) today became the first asset manager to sign the Fintech Pledge, demonstrating its ongoing commitment to digital innovation.

The Fintech pledge, which is part of a wider fintech strategy across the UK and  is supported by HM Treasury and the Fintech Delivery Panel, sets world-leading standards to accelerate the growth of the UK’s fintech sector by promoting valuable partnerships between financial institutions and tech scaleups.