smartKYC, the world’s most advanced multilingual semantic search engine, has been recognized as one of the top category leaders across the 2022 Chartis KYC Solutions Market Update and Vendor Landscape report. 

smartKYC was rated ‘best in class’ for reporting and customer profile enrichment, recognising smartKYC’s industry-leading solutions in potential markets of customer satisfaction and growth strategy. 

Episode Six, the leading global payments and banking infrastructure provider, and Immersve, a multichain payments protocol and Scheme card issuer, have announced a partnership to facilitate Scheme payments directly from Web3 digital wallets.

Finastra has today announced that NBP (National Bank of Pakistan) has implemented Finastra’s Fusion Trade Innovation solution to power its trade finance operations. InfoTech (Pvt) Ltd., a leading systems integrator and Finastra’s exclusive authorized and certified reseller in Pakistan, led the deal and implemented the solution, which will enable NBP to lower transaction costs and provide corporate customers with a superior user experience.

Nanny finance in the form of central banks and their years of excessive quantitative easing and desire to cut rates, at the first sign of trouble or discontent, has dominated the world for many years. This seemingly overly soft approach and desire to step in and make things better have created a generation of investors with a dependency on being financially bailed out or rescued.

Leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor ACA Group (ACA) today announces it has bolstered its comprehensive Managed Services offering in response to a global economic downturn, increasing budget pressure and growing recruitment and retention challenges.

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, announced today it is welcoming iBroker, the Spanish online multi-product broker specialising in derivatives, as its newest member. The broker will extend its current offering to include securitised derivatives, with retail investor clients in Spain and Italy able to trade these via Spectrum.

METACO, the leading provider of digital asset management technology to complex, global financial institutions, today announces that Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), one of the largest universal banks in the Philippines, has gone live on METACO’s flagship platform, Harmonize, to pilot the launch of crypto services for its clients.

Weavr, a London-headquartered technology provider that empowers businesses with plug-and-play embedded finance solutions, is today announcing its launch in Singapore.

Backed by a US$40m Series A round, led by American investment firm Tiger Global, the official launch of Weavr in Singapore signals the firm's continued global expansion.