Copper, the London-based digital asset infrastructure provider, today announced the appointment of three new senior executives to lead the company’s international expansion. They take up their new roles with immediate effect.

Michelle Lai, Jonathan Tse and Doug Bilyk bring expertise from across the financial services landscape, from institutional asset management, traditional trading and private equity, through to cryptoasset trading and fintech.

GoCardless, a leading fintech for recurring payments, today announced the launch of GoCardless for Salesforce Billing on Salesforce AppExchange, the world’s leading enterprise cloud marketplace.

Conviction Investment Partners, today announced that it has managed and completed pre-series A financing for Konsentus, a provider of Regulatory Technology (RegTech) solutions for open banking. Conviction led the multi-million pound investment after recognising Konsentus’ high-growth potential and how it can contribute to creating a safe and secure open banking environment for banks and financial services companies.

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry, today announced that 

New data published today from open banking platform Tink reveals that UK financial institutions are continuing to recognise the competitive advantage of open banking, going beyond compliance and prioritising investments in improving the digital customer experience. 

Nuapay, powered by Sentenial, today announces it has been chosen by Gala Technology, a payment security solution specialist, to provide Open Banking payments to its partner network and direct merchants across multiple sectors including retail, hospitality, and financial services.

Wolters Kluwer has been selected by livi bank for its award winning OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting solution to manage the bank’s regulatory reporting obligations.

The US payments industry is undoubtedly ripe for change. Before the unprecedented shock of COVID-19, digitization and payments transformation initiatives had been organic, piecemeal and predominately the preserve of the largest banks.

Now, increasing pressure means that financial institutions of all sizes are working to define a digital strategy to unlock new opportunities, drive business value, and stay competitive. But beyond the immediate impact of COVID, what underlying trends are accelerating digitization in the US?

Ideal Prediction (Ideal), the independent trading analysis and data science company for capital markets, has won the FX Markets award for ‘Best Surveillance Provider’ for the second consecutive year.

Quorsus, providers of consultancy services to financial institutions, has announced the appointment of former Markit executive, Jeff Gooch as its first non-executive director. In this position, having joined in September, Jeff will provide strategic insight into business planning, financial governance, and management decision making.