●      Estateguru Marketplace Limited opens its UK office in Manchester

●      Estateguru Group is an international property investing and financing platform, which has funded over €500m in loans to over 3,000 business plans and projects across Continental Europe

●      Estateguru operates in eight other markets across Europe including Finland, Spain, Portugal, Estonia and Germany

“Following delays due to the pandemic, we have finally reached the deadline for implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for e-commerce transactions.

This regulation is fundamentally transforming how merchants and banks conduct payments. With levels of online fraud increasing over the course of the pandemic, adding extra layers of security to protect businesses and consumers, can only be welcomed.

After growing 10x in 2021, Atlan plans to leverage this financing to accelerate product development and invest in go-to-market.

Atlan announced that it has closed its $50M Series B round led by Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital India. Several founders in the data space participated in the round including Fivetran founder Taylor Brown and ThoughtSpot founder Ajeet Singh.

The payments provider is seeking to connect with charities and aid organisations seeking to deliver funds to those affected 

Likvidi’s carbon credit distributed ledger platform will provide a new mechanism for companies to offset their carbon footprint

mmob, the UK’s first embedded finance network has today announced the successful completion of a £5m seed round. The investment was raised from a group of angel investors including high net worth individuals and senior banking executives. mmob will use the investment to advance the development of its technology platform, enter new markets including Malaysia, and further its leadership position within embedded finance. 

 Integral (www.integral.com), a leading technology provider to the financial markets’ buy-side, announced today that its IntegralFX service is now available in Singapore’s SG1 data center. The cloud-based SaaS FX workflow platform provides banks, brokers and other market participants with a complete eFX sytem for their internal traders and external customers. 

Bottomline (NASDAQ:EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that makes complex business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced that UK-based Hargreaves Lansdown plc, the UK’s number one investment platform for private investors, has selected Bottomline PTX to support its ‘cloud-first’ payments strategy.

Personal finance management app 

 Bybit, the world's fastest growing cryptocurrency exchange, is pleased to support the digital art chapter of Art Dubai 2022 at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai. After a three-year break, the global platform for artistic expressions from the Middle East and Global South goes beyond the realms of physical art to empower creatives in the digital dimension in its 15th edition, its most ambitious and extensive to date.