Eventus, a leading global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions, announced today that cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit has selected the firm’s Validus platform to provide market abuse monitoring on the exchange.

The global card-to-card pioneer and international payments platform Paysend today announced the appointment of Rupert Bedell as the Chief Marketing Officer. As one of the UK’s most experienced financial services marketers, Bedell’s appointment completes Paysend’s global executive team.

Responsible lender, Creditspring, has seen a spike in demand over the last 12 months with 260,000 members seeking credit as the cost of living crisis extends into 2023.

The lender’s membership base has spiked over the last 12 months – increasing from 100,000 at the start of 2022 to over a quarter of a million today. 

Managing compliance risks can feel intimidating, especially because identity crime and fraud attempts jumped by 36% in 2021 relative to 2020, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. As global regulations and accessibility increase, so do compliance risks.

People love paying in instalments, this isn’t anything new. And the latest version of this offering, buy now pay later (BNPL), has taken the world by storm. Around 17 million consumers have used BNPL instalments in the UK alone.

Financial decision-makers across regions are investing in automation (37%) and supply chain technology (37%)  as businesses respond to inflation and lingering concerns about a recession, according to new research from Taulia, the working capital management solutions provider.

LendInvest, the UK’s leading asset manager for property finance, announces a partnership with the British Business Bank to help finance smaller property developers provide more homes across the UK.

Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital lending marketplaces and embedded finance providers,  has appointed Richard Parfitt as Head of Data Science. 

Following this appointment, Richard will lead Freedom Finance’s data products initiative, building and managing a multi-disciplinary team to develop new services for customers and enhance data-driven capabilities driving further automation and intelligence. 

TRANCH, a buy now pay later (BNPL) platform for SaaS sellers and services providers, has raised $100 million in seed equity and debt funding to bring payment flexibility to a wider pool of B2B customers.