When Charles Schwab joined forces with TD Ameritrade in a $26 billion deal at the start of last year, many analysts predicted that this would only be the beginning of consolidation in the brokerage market. Since then, ongoing consolidation within the space is further shrinking the research options available to investors. This is because many of the firms folding into each other had covered overlapping equities, and at the same time as this consolidation these very same brokers are reducing their overall research coverage.

Latest offering brings the simplicity of modern Software as a Service (SaaS) onboarding and support to cloud payment processing for financial institutions  

Despite the perception they are too small to target, SMBs are increasingly vulnerable due to supply-chain attacks and greater use of automation by ransomware groups

·         Media buying: £271b spent on digital ad spend every year, BLKBOX has set out to disrupt the way advertisers and agencies buy and manage digital media as spend

·         Speed: Using BLKBOX, companies can leverage intelligent automation to acquire high-value retained users faster, while reducing campaign management from 6 hours down to 6min. 

AxiaFunder, Europe’s first for-profit litigation funding platform, has secured £1.9m from investors since launching in January 2019, with a 100% success rate on completed cases.

Co-founded by investment banker Cormac Leech and entrepreneur Sophie Liu, AxiaFunder has fully funded a total of 13 cases via its platform so far, winning all five that have been concluded with an average investors’ return of 55%, and as high as 94%*. Of course, we would like to remind investors past performance is not indicative of future results

Fintechs collaborate with traditional bank to bring better services to consumers and businesses 

Today, EedenBull, the leading fintech specialising in B2B commercial payments technology, has announced participation in Mastercard Track™ Business Payment Service to enhance its innovative Commercial Payments as-a-service (CPaaS) solution 

What does the product do?

Unizest is a digital app that provides e-current accounts for newcomers to the UK - namely overseas workers and international students. As well as providing accounts direct to customers, we partner with recruitment agencies in order to help them recruit and retain international candidates by providing a much needed digital banking solution, specifically tailored to the needs of non-UK nationals. 

Who needs the product?

• Interactive Brokers will use LPA Group’s Capmatix Doc and Data Cockpit solution for regulatory compliance across its entire product range
• A 24/7 automated process will ensure that the correct documentation for every financial product is available and up-to-date 

• Industry leader reinvents digital trust, adding pre-transaction behavioral intelligence to prevent financial crime in real-time before it happens, without compromising user privacy or experience
• Game-changing acquisition will culminate in the world’s largest Financial Intelligence Network (FIN), a vault of more than a trillion data points, sessions, and profiles of both good and bad actors