BCB Group has appointed Noah Sharp as Deputy CEO, who will share responsibility with the CEO for the corporate scaling strategy across geographies, client segments, products and licensing. Sharp, a pioneering, international Fintech banker and specialist in banking-as-a-service and embedded payment solutions for crypto exchanges, PSPs and marketplaces, is based in London and reports to Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, Founder and CEO.

Ugam, a Merkle company and a global leader in analytics and technology, today announced its brand migration to Merkle. This brand migration is part of the integration plan following Ugam’s acquisition by Merkle in July 2019.

Aura Blockchain Consortium and Temera are once again at the forefront of tech solution development for the luxury market, to support greater transparency and traceability for customers.

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a commitment of up to €25 million to Wilshire’s European Venture Capital Fund II through its Managed Funds Programme. This will be Wilshire’s second European venture capital fund of funds and will target venture capital managers that are based primarily in the UK and Germany and that invest in technology companies.

GoCardless, the global leader in direct bank payments has today announced at Xerocon London it has partnered with Xero, the global small business platform, to provide its Instant Bank Pay feature to Xero’s customers in the UK. 

Ondato, a technology company that streamlines KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) processes, today announces the launch of Ondato Risk Scoring, an automated tool for companies to identify and manage customer-associated risk better and faster during onboarding. The new tool reduces high acceptance and rejection error rates associated with manual AML customer risk assessment processes.

Fraud prevention expert, SEON has helped B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) business, Biller, reduce fraudulent transactions by 87% across its platform, while decreasing the company’s manual review times by 93% with its powerful fraud-fighting solution.

OPEN, the world’s fastest-growing digital banking enterprise on Tuesday received a go-ahead from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for its new cross-border payments product. This comes after OPEN completed the test phase of the second cohort under the RBI’s regulatory sandbox structure themed ‘Cross Border Payments’.

GVC Gaesco is reaffirming its commitment to strengthening the digitalisation process of investment services. As such, the Spanish financial group has signed a key partnership with FNZ, a leading global wealth management platform, under its unique platform-as-a-service model, to develop a new digital solution for Investment Services.

New consumer research from Europe’s leading open banking platform, Tink, reveals that over a quarter (28%) of the UK’s self-employed struggle to access the financial services they require, leading many to believe the current system works against them due to their employment status.