Esme Loans, the digital lending platform for SMEs and scale up businesses, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Pollen Street Capital, a London-based private equity and credit manager, further enhancing Esme’s ability to serve UK SMEs.

The partnership, through Pollen Street’s Honeycomb Investment Fund, will accelerate and expand Esme’s product offering, whilst helping Esme to achieve its strategic growth ambitions.

ITRS Group (“ITRS”) the leading provider of real-time monitoring, has announced a partnership with Velocimetrics, a leader in real-time business insight to the global financial community. This will enable ITRS Geneos customers to independently track and analyse the real-time performance of every trade or payment traversing business critical processes and improve operational resilience.

Alexander Filshie has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer Designate at Earthport plc (AIM: EPO.L) with immediate effect. Alexander will also join the Board as an Executive Director, subject to regulatory approvals.

The insurance industry is entering an age of disruption and digital transformation. Bespoke products and personalized outreach will soon be the new norm, and insurance carriers will see pivotal changes powered by AI solutions.

New data reveals the maturity of the financial sector in business continuity and operational resilience

Organisations – regardless of sector – should use the FCA & BoE’s recommendations to improve operational resilience. This is according to Peter Groucutt, managing director of Databarracks. 

Breakthrough deep learning processor boosts processing power of autonomous vehicles, smart home appliances, cameras and TVs

SatoshiPay (‘the Company’), at the vanguard of providing frictionless global micropayment infrastructure based on blockchain technology, initially to digital content creators, has received a €566,000 cash injection from serial technology/crypto investor Daniel Masters and announced its intention to IPO in London.  Already backed by Axel Springer, one of Europe’s biggest media houses, as well as specialised funds including Blue Star Capital and KR1 and experienced business angels such as Jim Mellon, the Company is aiming to rapidly scale its micropayment technology and build on its existing

EuroCCP, Europe’s leading equities clearinghouse, today announces the appointment of Cécile Nagel as Chief Executive Officer. Ms Nagel joins from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) where she was most recently Head of LSE Markets Global Product Development and LSE Exchange Traded Products.

CoAssets Limited (CoAssets or the "Company") (ASX: CA8), a financial technology platform specialising in providing funding solutions for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), is pleased to announce the launch of the CoAssets Stirling Fort Absolute Return Fund (CASFAR Fund or Fund) by its wholly owned Singapore based subsidiary CoAssets International Pte Ltd.

So far, not much has been written about treasury functions in the context of cryptographic utility tokens. However, as the distinctions between different classes of utility and security tokens becomes more defined, it will become a more important topic of discussion, research and experimentation.