Acquisition bolsters Diligent’s data, analytics and ESG offerings to drive better decision-making in the evolving fields of shareholder activism, proxy voting and corporate governance

Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move money around the world, has been awarded the Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognising the UK’s Best Places to Work in

The .LERN blockchain top-level domain will give access to decentralized storage and data privacy for global learners

ABN AMRO Bank among the banks that have successfully transitioned to new structured and more complex message formats for Guarantees and Standby Letters of Credit

Once brushed off as a science fiction trope, the ‘robot revolution’ is already here and transforming the way the world does business. For the finance sector, the rise of robotic process automation (RPA) and intelligent automation (IA) is driving efficiency and saving time and money by performing cumbersome tasks previously assigned to teams of people. The 24/7 performance of robots – or ‘bots’ – ensures greater operational accuracy and faster turnaround, as well as increased accountability through automated audit logs.

Worldline, the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry, is attending the NRF 2022 Retail’s Big Show in New-York, on January 16-18, showcasing innovative and futuristic live demos in a high-tech immersive experience room.

Retail's Big Show will be in-person, bringing an entire industry back together.

Immersive eXperience room to live a next level demo experience

The move sees Atom offer far higher rates than those available from the traditional high street banks and is yet another example of Atom driving value back into the savings market.

Atom’s top rated app (rated 4.8/5 by Apple users and 4.9/5 by Android users) means that these rates are available in minutes to existing and new to bank customers.

Details of the new rates are:

The below rates go live at 00:01 on Wednesday 12^th January 2022:

6 month fixed saver: 0.75% (1^st)

1 year fixed saver: 1.35% (2^nd)

 F.INSTITUTE, a Dutch full-service finance company for Life Sciences, Clean and Deep Tech companies, has expanded its portfolio with the launch of three new products: the Incubator, Seed and Series packages. The company has also expanded its CFO Services to include Partnering and M&A Services, and Fundraising Services. These products emphasize F.INSTITUTE’s ambition to become the European one-stop market leader for financial services for start-ups and scale-ups. 

Collaboration provides pre-integrated data insights solution for banks to fight financial crime

Kharon, a leading provider of research and data analytics covering global security threats that impact commerce and finance, has joined Temenos Exchange, the open marketplace of fintech solutions for more than 3,000 banks and financial institutions worldwide. The integration of Kharon’s data and analytics solutions provides Temenos customers with access to rich data insights designed to power their financial crimes and trade compliance programs.

• The virtual reality market recorded its strongest year of private fundraising in the UK to date, driven by a surge of investment in Q4
• Virtual reality (VR) is the fastest-growing market segment, as revenues grew by 31.7 per cent and are projected to increase at the same rate over the next five years.

Private UK fundraising within the virtual reality sector recorded its strongest year to date – with over £150m worth of capital raised this year, a 72% increase on 2020.