LPA, the capital market technology and advisory firm, today announced the hire of Kristian Liiv as the new Regional Manager for Scandinavia. 

Arbor Steel has raised £200,000 in a pre-seed funding round to bring its digital identity citadel to customers. Developed following a £100,000 InnovateUK Grant, the platform provides a secure and efficient way to share personal data and interact with services whilst maintaining control.

Legatics, the leading legal transaction management platform, has appointed David Biggs as Chief Financial Officer. Biggs joins Legatics from Farewill, the digital will and probate provider, and he will work with the board and the growing executive team to help scale the business. 

The Dow Jones looks like it is breaking up out of a significant consolidation period to re-continue the previous up-trend higher.

The Nasdaq appears ready to collapse through the bottom of its recent trading range.

The SP500 looks confused running from one side of the boat to the other.

While Australian equities and currency are torn between slowing global growth and high commodity prices?

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Consumer attitudes to financial services have changed radically. A waning enthusiasm for traditional banking services in favour of digital alternatives, especially among the young, was already apparent pre-COVID. Now it is becoming clear just how much the pandemic has hastened new behaviours and expectations.

Earlier this year, UK financial regulators expressed their concerns over British banks’ increased dependency on a handful of cloud service providers. There is genuine fear that an outage or cyberattack on a cloud provider could severely disrupt a banking system, preventing millions of people from accessing their finances or having their financial data leaked. This has caused regulatory bodies to step up their scrutiny of cloud computing. 

A new processing solution from leading banking-as-a-service provider (BaaS) Contis is set to supercharge the company's growth in the UK and EEA listed countries, enabling client expansion into new geographies. The solution will be available across both small and large banks, fintechs, businesses and non finance players in the gaming and gifting sector.

Objectway, a global wealth, banking & asset management software provider, has been included in the annual WealthTech100 list for the fourth consecutive year.

The prestigious list, announced yesterday by specialist research firm FinTech Global, recognises the world’s most innovative technology solution providers addressing the digital transformation challenges and opportunities faced by investment firms, private banks and financial advisors.