Pension-finding platform, Raindrop reveals a year of strong growth with £251m recovered in lost pension pots for customers in 2024.

This marks a 61% increase in the number of lost pension pots the Raindrop solution located in 2023, when it traced £156 million. Since launch, Raindrop has found over £460 million in lost pots.

Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, has added Swedish banking app, Swish, to its growing list of Alternative Payment Methods (APMs). The app, which boasts a 39%+ share of checkout in Sweden, is the Swedish consumers’ preferred way to pay. By adding it to the Ecommpay payment platform for payments in SEK, merchants targeting the Swedish market will be able to optimise checkout performance.

Since it was established in 2014, the British Business Bank has delivered more than £32bn in combined public and private sector funding, supporting 209,000 smaller businesses which are expected to create 250,000 additional jobs and sustain almost 2.3 million existing positions, cementing its role as a critical driver of growth and employment in the UK since its inception.

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Marqeta , the global modern card issuing platform that enables embedded finance solutions for the world’s innovators, today announced it is powering Trading 212’s launch into 20 countries in continental Europe.

NomuPay, a leading fintech platform, together with its subsidiary KlickEx Pacific Limited and the global money movement company TerraPay, has launched a strategic partnership to deliver seamless and affordable money transfer services to the Pacific Islands.

Aslan, the next-generation financial wellbeing solution, today announces its oversubscribed $5m (£3.9m) seed funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, a leading European software and cloud venture capital investor, alongside Redstone, and an impressive roster of angels. Stephen Chandler, Notion’s Managing Partner, will join the Board.

Aslan exists to make employees’ pay go further, with a highly engaging benefit that they use every single day.

Paymob, the leading financial services enabler in MENA-P, announces it has been granted the Retail Payment Services License by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) after successfully meeting all regulatory conditions and requirements through a rigorous approval process.

The European Payments Council (EPC) is pleased to announce the start of the delivery project for the EPC Directory Service (EDS), after selecting Swift as supplier for the development and operations of the EDS and after signing an agreement at the end of 2024. Swift has been selected as EDS provider after a Request for Proposal (RFP) process running in the second and third quarters of 2024 and the subsequent approval by the EPC Board in September 2024.

New data released by SmartSearch, the UK’s leading provider of digital compliance and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions, found that almost three-quarters (72%) of regulated companies feel overwhelmed by ongoing anti-financial crime compliance demands.