More than half of compliance professionals say digital transformation of the customer due diligence process will have the biggest impact on their risk organisation over the next 12 months, according to a new poll from digital compliance specialist NorthRow.

In light of the news that England enters step three today, pubs and restaurants will be able to open indoors, and groups of six people or two households will be able to mix indoors. With this in mind, Angus Burrell SVP Retail at global payments service provider, emerchantpay, predicts that both in-store and online sales will see a significant increase. 

HIPSTO today announced the launch of its Advanced Reddit Monitoring Dataset in response to the unprecedented trading activities of the subreddit, WallStreetBets.  The Package is powered by HIPSTO’s proprietary FalconV™ AI technology, and is intended to provide the ultimate risk management tool to an investment community previously unable to effectively monitor the conversations and trading signals in social groups of this type. 

Yolt Technology Services (YTS), the leading open banking provider, has today launched their Cashflow Analyser tool, a solution powered by its Account Information Services (AIS) that gives credit underwriters deeper insights into the cashflow of credit applicants and customers to streamline and simplify affordability assessment processes.

As financial institutions become increasingly digitised, new ways are being created to make data rapidly available, whenever and wherever needed. Marcus Sehr, Head of Treasury Services Europe, BNY Mellon, explores how banks are leveraging APIs to provide fast, efficient and convenient payment services.

Tinkoff Investments has launched Tinkoff InvestIndex, a set of indices that represent Russian investors’ activity and sentiment. Tinkoff InvestIndex shows what securities investors are buying or selling, what industries they favour, and what currencies they are holding. The Index is based on anonymous data collected from more than a million investors registered on Tinkoff Investments’ Pulse social network.

Filogix, a Finastra company, announced that Real Mortgage Associates (RMA) & Broker One, Eastern Canada’s leading network for independent mortgage brokerages, has selected Filogix Expert Pro to provide its members with digital mortgage capabilities.

 Finzly, a fintech provider of modern banking applications for payments, foreign exchange, trade finance and digital account opening, announced the addition of new digital deposit core capabilities to its BankOS^TM platform, notably an Infinity Account^TM functionality powered by a multi-asset, real-time general ledger that enables financial institutions to offer customizable digital accounts so customers can track virtually any asset including foreign currencies, cryptocurrencies, and rewards points, a

Spice Money, India’s leading rural fintech, extends financial services in Chitkul, India’s last inhabited village in Himachal Pradesh with no ATM facility till date, by introducing Spice Money Mini-ATM services. The company has converted one of the only two Kirana Stores in the village into a Spice Money ‘Digital Dukaan’ to offer cash-in cash-out services to the residents and tourists.

Goal Group, the global fintech leader in withholding tax reclamation and securities class action recovery services, has announced that accomplished business leader and withholding tax specialist Dawn McGuire has joined the company as Managing Director, Americas.