One of the UK’s top alternative SME fintech lenders has announced a new £50 million Small Business Fund, which has been created to support SMEs that require additional finance to kickstart their recovery.

Capify, which has provided finance to thousands of small and medium-sized businesses for more than a decade, will now offer business funding of up to £1m specifically to help the UK’s small businesses post-Covid.

Acronis, a global leader in cyber protection, today released the findings of its second annual Cyber Protection Week survey, which uncovered a dangerous disconnect between the need for organisations to keep their data protected and the ineffective investments they’ve made trying to reach that goal.

Slovakia is a burgeoning fintech region and home to the best IT-ranked developers in the world. To promote and nurture the rising innovation, three industry leaders have come together to create the official FinTech Hub Slovakia.

Sinequa, recognized by Gartner and Forrester as a leader in Enterprise Search, today announced that it has appointed Bob Lewis as Senior Vice President (SVP) of its North America operations. As SVP, Lewis will drive continued and accelerated growth in North America.

Planixs, the leading provider of real-time cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions to banking firms, has announced today it is further strengthening its presence in Europe with a new office in Frankfurt, Germany - allowing the firm to better serve its existing European customers and develop new opportunities in the region.

Based in the heart of Frankfurt’s Financial District, the new premises will provide Planixs will a permanent base in Europe, with the facilities to hold meetings and workshops and host customer networking events.

Crown Agents Bank today announces the availability of EMpower Payments. The latest addition to the EMpower suite of FX and cross-border payment products, EMpower Payments is Crown Agents Bank’s automated gateway for cross-border transactions into emerging markets.

Google Cloud and Commerzbank, a leading German commercial bank with a strong international focus, announced today that they are expanding their collaboration by entering into a five-year, strategic partnership. With the help of Google Cloud, Commerzbank will move a significant number of its banking applications to the cloud, a continuation of a comprehensive digital transformation strategy underway since 2017.

E-wallet provider STICPAY is signing a partnership agreement with CWG Marke

The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB), founded by the Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) to facilitate the allocation and maintenance of International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs) and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISNs) for OTC derivatives, has today opened a Request for Information (RFI) process to identify a reference data provider for provision of underlier identifiers for the Unique Product Identifier (UPI).