Rimes is pleased to announce the appointment of Sam Barber as Head of Data Services. Sam has over nine years’ experience operating at the Executive Director level for S&P Global and brings a wealth of specialist data and client management experience. A key highlight of Sam's career was spearheading S&P’s global business development unit, selling ETF and index products to tier-one banks, asset managers, market makers and ETF issuers.

Lyfeguard, a life planning assistant and document management platform, has selected Centropy PR to handle its external communications following a competitive pitch process.

The International Stock Exchange (TISE), the innovative provider of financial markets and securities services, and

Bdeo, a fast-growing technology company providing Visual Intelligence for the insurance and fleet industries, has raised an additional €7.5 million to accelerate its international expansion and strengthen its position across Europe and Latin America. 

According to the annual Climate Fintech report from Tenity (formerly F10), analyzing data of a total of 607 startups globally, Europe takes the lead in total funding secured across the sector in 2022. This report features a cross-section of data from Climate Fintech startups around the world working to decarbonize using digital financial technology. 

Walking With The Wounded, a charity to help injured British Armed Forces veterans in their career transition from the military to civilian life, has launched a debit card in partnership with Currensea, enabling supporters to make charitable donations each time they spend at home or abroad, boosting donations during the cost of living crisis.

Federato, the insurance industry’s first RiskOps underwriting platform, today announced that it has raised $25M in Series B funding, led by Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Emergence Capital and Pear VC. This round comes less than a year after the company announced its Series A. 

UK-based FinTech firm, Freetrade, which portrays itself as the creator of a life savings app, has successfully surpassed its Crowdcube funding target.

The firm has raised an impressive £1.76m, significantly more than the £1m target it initially set, according to a report from Crowdfund Insider.

On our mission to disrupt how retailers market and sell their products online, we are excited to announce that we have raised $10 million in a Seed Funding round led by leading U.S VC Bonfire Ventures.