Over the past two years, the pandemic has placed numerous hurdles in front of companies trying to do business. But even before the Covid crisis began, some departments had to scale obstacles daily to accomplish their tasks. This is most true of the finance department. Accomplishing these vital financial duties - from payroll, to cashflow - is proving more and more complicated as challenges mount on a daily basis. 

 OpenPayd, a leading global payments and banking-as-a-service platform has today announced the appointment of Daniel Belda as its Head of Product Strategy. Belda will define the go-to market approach for OpenPayd’s embedded finance and BaaS product suite, oversee the continuous improvement of its services and build new fintech propositions for its diverse set of clients. 

The UK’s largest coach operator, National Express, has partnered with Clearpay, a leader in “Buy Now, Pay Later” payments known as Afterpay outside the UK and Europe, to offer increased flexibility and choice to customers purchasing tickets. 

Founder Dax Dasilva to serve as Executive Chair

New features help finance teams further automate and optimize AP processes to speed cycle time and scale to accommodate business growth

The pandemic drove thousands of millennials and Gen Zers to the financial markets. A recent survey reveals that this trend continues, with both trading volumes and number of trades recorded in the first half of 2021 surpassing full year 2020. However, the reality is also that 80% of day traders quit trading within the two years, while 40% of them quit in just one month. So, while there is huge potential to grow their client base, brokers are also dealing with traders who have specific motivations.

• Company raises further funding from leading Dutch banking giant Rabobank
• Supports Aito’s continued growth in the haptic feedback market
• Company will use funds to accelerate growth with further tier one consumer technology brands

Leading Dutch technology start-up Aito today announces a further investment – this time from the start-up and scale-up team of leading Dutch banking giant Rabobank. 

Crude Oil Slides, Stocks Reverse Fall, Bond Yields Stay Bid

CMC Markets Connect, a leading global provider of institutional trading and technology solutions, has today announced a distribution agreement with Integral. Acknowledged as the world’s most advanced technology provider of cloud-based eFX workflow solutions, the award-winning platform brings together a wide variety of liquidity providers into a single, integrated network.