Cedar Oxygen, a Luxembourg domiciled, impact investment trade finance platform, has announced that it has arranged its first finance facility to Lebanese Roasting Group Sal (‘Castania’), a leading Lebanese player in the nuts and snacks sector. The finance will support the import of needed raw materials and is the first in a series of major deployments which are hoped will breathe long-term life into the Lebanese economy.

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Intuit QuickBooks, the UK’s leading financial management platform, announces new features in its recently launched Self Assessment tool, arming small businesses (SMBs) with an efficient and stress-free way of helping to prepare their tax return in advance of the upcoming January deadline.

Other updates in the QuickBooks Winter Product Release include a special offer with ‘GoCardless’, and updated VAT codes ahead of changes to import tax in 2021.

Data platform company, RegulAItion has won the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) 2020 Global Fintech Hackcelerator.

Competing against over 270 submissions from across more than 40 countries, the RegulAItion team impressed the judges in the Global Fintech Programme by developing an innovative market-ready solution that is to be rolled out in the Singapore financial market in 2021.

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Solactive, a technology-enabled provider of indices and index solutions to the global financial services industry, announces a €50 million minority investment from global growth equity firm Summit Partners. The investment will help support Solactive’s continued global growth, as the company expands its product offering and presence worldwide and further builds upon its proprietary technology platform, infrastructure and global team.

Opencast Software, the independent tech consultancy, has appointed digital transformation heavyweight Jason Kay as Digital & Technology Services Director. Opencast Software specialises in developing end-to-end enterprise solutions for Government, financial services, health and social care and renewable energy sectors.