Europe’s first certified credit rating for SMEs has launched today in London. The service means that SMEs can, for the first time, receive a specific credit rating that traditionally only larger, public corporates have been able to rely on to demonstrate their value and creditworthiness.

The Analyst Report Digital Identity & Document Verification Market & Technology Analysis & Forecasts 2019-2024, Goode Intelligence (www.goodeintelligence.com) reveals that the demand to digitally onboard customers will result in over two billion separate digital identity and document verification checks annually by 2024 – up from 518 million checks by the end of 2019.

F-Secure’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution Countercept has won a multi-year deal worth than more than EUR 2m to defend a major European enterprise customer.

“Countercept keeps impressing businesses that know cyber security is critical to their success,” says Tim Orchard, Managing Director, F-Secure Countercept. “It’s not just the technical capabilities or the ability to detect the world’s most sophisticated cyber attacks. Companies love knowing Countercept takes control and guides the response to cyber incidents.”

FNZ, the global financial technology company, has acquired JHC Systems Ltd (JHC), a leading UK-based provider of platform software to the wealth management industry.

As well as realising significant synergy opportunities, the acquisition results in the combined group becoming one of the top broking platforms in the UK, by bringing together FNZ’s and JHC’s respective existing customers in this market.

China Merchants Bank has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting to provide its regulatory reporting software in the U.S.

OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting combines bank data into a single source of data to ensure consistency, reconciliation and accuracy and includes Wolters Kluwer’s Regulatory Update Service. This unique service is maintained by Wolters Kluwer experts who actively monitor regulation in 30 countries.

In the last 24 hours, it has been reported in Cointelegraph that Coinbase has suspended UK customer deposits via Faster Payments and is relying on international bank transfers made through SWIFT, with a minimum deposit of £1,000.

World-leading biometrics company, Fingerprint Cards (Fingerprints™) and Giesecke + Devrient Mobile Security (G+D), a global mobile security technology company, are collaborating to bring contactless biometric payment cards to the market.

Rosecut, the wealth management platform powered by artificial intelligence, has launched to meet the needs of affluent ‘middle-market’ investors abandoned by traditional wealth managers and private banks. Combining learning algorithms and human insight, Rosecut provides fast, informed and bespoke investment focused financial advice, whilst keeping fees lower for the investor.

Avelacom, the high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has added Gemini Trust Company, LLC, a digital asset exchange and custodian, to its list of cryptocurrency exchange tech vendors in Equinix’s NY5 data center. The partnership will support both firms’ clients by providing increased connectivity options to Gemini.

A few days ago, the first-ever CoinCola meet up took place at the prestigious Tayo Aderinokun Lecture Theatre located in the University of Lagos, Nigeria. The event which took place on the 13th of July 2019 had over 120 persons in attendance including businessmen, students, crypto traders, blockchain analyst, crypto experts, local media companies and many newbies to cryptocurrency.