India is known to be the world’s largest recipient of remittances, receiving $87bn in 2021*

Sokin, the next generation payments provider, is set to disrupt India’s $87bn* remittances market by giving the 18 million** Indian migrants living outside their homeland access to 51% cheaper global money transfers***.

The joint solution will provide fully integrated POS and digital ordering for 
hotels

• Leading fintech provider finova fully migrates its servicing solution to the cloud using cloud computing service, Microsoft Azure
• The enhanced product has built-in security controls, advanced self-serve features and leverages finova’s API gateway for rapid third-party integration
• The proposition is integrated to finova’s market-leading Apprivo2 core banking platform

Questions of security, opportunity and diversity

This Editor-in-Chief’s letter is being written as Russia’s armed forces are mounting what appears to be a full-scale invasion of Ukraine – a truly appalling outcome after months of mounting geo-political tension.

To support its new obligations under the Shareholder Rights Directive (SRD II), WealthSeed, a breakthrough digital application for easy investing and personal finance in Poland launched by Fair Place Finance S.A., announced it will utilize a blockchain-based disclosure solution from global Fintech leader, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR).

DSB aims to ensure industry readiness in light of market and regulatory developments 

• ‘Kingswood Go’ will allow clients to access their investments and hold all of their financial information online and in one place securely

• Kingswood Go will allow Kingswood to launch their own fully branded client app that delivers compliance confidence and builds client loyalty

• Providing a single client view, the portal will be available via desktop and mobile app and is driven by technology from wealthtech firm, moneyinfo

One in seven P2P investors use their smartphones primarily as financial instruments. At the same time, computers are preferable for investors when working with P2P sites. These are the results of the latest survey conducted by the investment platform Robocash. 

Financial institutions are adopting Open Banking and its capabilities at pace, but what will the future hold as wider financial services providers adopt similar technologies? 

Delivering new products and services

LPA, the capital market technology and advisory firm, today announced the hire of Paolo de Vito as the new Head of Business Development, Italy.

In his role, Paolo will lead the opening of the Italian branch of LPA and be responsible for the business development, strategy, and growth of LPA’s activity in the region. Paolo will be based in Italy and will work to help LPA’s clients to transform and digitise their activity, maximising productivity and ensure regulatory compliance.