UK-based checkout finance platform provider Divido has announced a partnership with Novuna Consumer Finance, one of the UK’s leading point of sale finance providers, to enable merchants to provide competitive white-labelled finance to their customers.  

The partnership combines Novuna Consumer Finance’s 40+ years of retail finance expertise with Divido’s award-winning technology. 

ATRAM Trust Corporation (ATRAM), the largest independent asset and wealth manager in the Philippines, today announced that it has signed a strategic partnership with additiv, a leading global wealthtech platform provider. 

European branded payments company Recharge.com today announced the appointment of Martine Tiemersma as Chief of Staff. Reporting directly to the CEO, Martine will be an instrumental member of the senior team, driving organisational effectiveness and company-wide alignment as the firm enters the next phase of growth.

BCB Group has appointed Noah Sharp as Deputy CEO, who will share responsibility with the CEO for the corporate scaling strategy across geographies, client segments, products and licensing. Sharp, a pioneering, international Fintech banker and specialist in banking-as-a-service and embedded payment solutions for crypto exchanges, PSPs and marketplaces, is based in London and reports to Oliver von Landsberg-Sadie, Founder and CEO.

Ugam, a Merkle company and a global leader in analytics and technology, today announced its brand migration to Merkle. This brand migration is part of the integration plan following Ugam’s acquisition by Merkle in July 2019.

Aura Blockchain Consortium and Temera are once again at the forefront of tech solution development for the luxury market, to support greater transparency and traceability for customers.

British Business Investments, a wholly-owned commercial subsidiary of the British Business Bank, today announces a commitment of up to €25 million to Wilshire’s European Venture Capital Fund II through its Managed Funds Programme. This will be Wilshire’s second European venture capital fund of funds and will target venture capital managers that are based primarily in the UK and Germany and that invest in technology companies.

GoCardless, the global leader in direct bank payments has today announced at Xerocon London it has partnered with Xero, the global small business platform, to provide its Instant Bank Pay feature to Xero’s customers in the UK. 

Ondato, a technology company that streamlines KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) processes, today announces the launch of Ondato Risk Scoring, an automated tool for companies to identify and manage customer-associated risk better and faster during onboarding. The new tool reduces high acceptance and rejection error rates associated with manual AML customer risk assessment processes.

Fraud prevention expert, SEON has helped B2B buy now, pay later (BNPL) business, Biller, reduce fraudulent transactions by 87% across its platform, while decreasing the company’s manual review times by 93% with its powerful fraud-fighting solution.