We’ve heard many stories about companies that went broke in times of crisis, but also many examples of how businesses flourished in bad times, doing better on vital financial parameters and outperforming their competitors.

The same can be said of individuals. Extraordinary leaders know that how they fight a war often determines whether they will emerge triumphant.

In this post, I’d like to share a success story of one outstanding woman and her principles that helped her become successful.

Curve, the fast-growing financial super app, today announces it’s launching a new crowdfunding round to enable its growing customer base to invest, as it fuels its expansion into the US and further into Europe. The campaign is set to go live later in May.

Having secured £72.5 million from a leading group of international investors as part of its successful Series C round, Curve is now extending the opportunity to its customers and wider community to take part in the next stage of its ambitious growth strategy.

Nationwide, the world’s largest building society, has partnered with leading technology provider Form3 and will be connecting to their cloud-native payments platform to simplify and reinforce the Society’s payments infrastructure. 

In August 2020, Nationwide was one of the first financial services providers in the UK to invest in Form3 via its Ventures Fund, recognising the potential of their platform. Now the organisation will become one of the first major financial services organisation in the UK to adopt Form3’s platform.

Multiply AI, the UK’s first fully-automated financial app provider, today announced the removal of its monthly subscription fee for Unity Mutual Lifetime ISA (LISA) customers – and launched a customer referral bonus scheme for easy access account holders.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces advances in artificial intelligence (AI), hybrid cloud, and quantum computing at the company's Think conference at 12:00 p.m. ET today. The innovations highlight IBM's role in helping its clients and partners accelerate their digital transformations, return to work smarter, and build strategic ecosystems that can drive better business outcomes.

Commerzbank will be cooperating with the Franco-German financial services group ODDO BHF in the area of equities. As part of its Strategy 2024, Commerzbank has announced that it will be reviewing the possibility of cooperation with potential partners for the areas of equity trading and equity research. The aim is to become more efficient and to offer Corporate Clients an even better platform for placement of their shares. “This cooperation means that our capital markets business will be aligned even more consistently with the needs of our core clients.

With increasing competitive pressures from small and agile Fintech firms, financial institutions are scrambling to modernize legacy systems to become truly data-driven.  However, Gartner predicts that by 2023, 90% of applications will still not be updated to run on new flexible system architectures.

Etrading Software, the global provider of technology-led solutions designed for financial institutions and industry initiatives, has today announced the hire of Victoria Mcllroy, who will be joining the company in May, in a newly created role to focus on sales for Etrading Software and Artis Holding’s new loan technology partnership. 

The SNP’s historic win in the Holyrood elections increases pressure for a second independence referendum that could see Scotland re-joining the EU. ParcelHero says ensuring the free flow of goods across English-Scottish borders must be part of any ‘Scexit’ plans from the very beginning.

The Scottish Nationalist Party’s (SNP) victory in the Scottish Parliamentary elections could pave the way for a second referendum, as pro-independence parties now hold the majority in Holyrood.

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