Tech-focussed investment bank ICON Corporate Finance has advised on the sale of printing and packaging specialists Edale to global leader, Canon Production printing. The deal highlights the continuing attractiveness of cross-border transactions and is the latest in a string of international deals advised on by ICON.

PaySprint is a star-up Fintech launched in December 2020 with the vision is to empower millions of Indians to Digital Banking. The recent guidelines of RBI on establishment of Digital banking Units is line with their vision of empowering the expansion of digital financial services across India. In a short period, PaySprint, has raised seed capital funding from Fino Payment Bank. Fino is acquiring 12.19% stake in PaySprint.

Tarek AbdelKader joins the business finance start-up bringing experience from The Co-Operative Bank and Think Money Group

Muse Finance - the business finance start-up - has hired Tarek AbdelKader as its Chief Technology Officer.

Competition for the provision of investment research decreases due to MiFID II:  bulge-bracket providers reassert dominance 

Pires Investments plc, the investment company focused on next generation technology, is pleased to note that one of its investments, Pluto Digital PLC ("Pluto"), has just finalised its audited accounts ("Accounts") and has recently held a webinar to provide an update to shareholders. 

 Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, in collaboration with fiat on-ramp services provider OpenPayd, is enabling real-time Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments for euro-denominated deposits and withdrawals. 

• The cost to businesses who aren’t SCA compliant has risen since two-factor authentication in the UK became mandatory for online transactions on 14 March
• Barclaycard Payments data shows 664,000 online transactions worth £130m in the UK were declined during the month since SCA became mandatory

· Salesforce joins the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

· Focus on developing fit-for-purpose blue carbon markets