• Former Nomura and HSBC technology and risk leaders join LPA to grow the firm’s UK consulting business
• The firm hired five new senior consultants in 2021 as it adds new talent and wins clients

Descartes Underwriting, the InsurTech company specializing in next-generation corporate insurance solutions to address climate and emerging risks, announces a $120 million Series B funding round.

Mphasis, an Information Technology solutions provider specializing in cloud and cognitive services, today announced that it has been recognized as a “Major Contender” by Everest Group, in its PEAK Matrix® for Banking Operations Service Providers for 2022. 

Growth Capital Ventures has led a £1.3 million super seed investment round into Business Finance Market (BFM), a fintech platform set to boost access to finance for the country’s 5.9 million SMEs.

The funds will be used to drive the development of BFM’s technology forward and further enhance the team. This round, which saw pledges exceed the initial target of £1 million, is further to an oversubscribed seed round of £225,000 in June 2021.

Customer Experience Software provider sees users double as it boosted its turnover to £2.3m.

Kooth Work has been selected by Panmure Gordon, a UK Investment Bank to help deliver proactive and preventative mental health and wellbeing support to all its employees and their families. 

• Users can trade cryptocurrencies without paying any purchase, trading, transfer or maintenance fees
• First digital wallet in Latin America to support ADA Cardano, in addition to Bitcoins, Bitcoin Cash and Litecoins

 Global financial technology company SumUp and PrestaShop - the leading e-commerce platform in Europe and Latin America - announce a partnership that will give hundreds of thousands of merchants on the PrestaShop platform access to SumUp’s extensive product suite of tailor-made business tools thanks to PrestaShop’s SumUp Payment Module. 

Today, leading payments platform Modulr, announced a partnership with Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, to enable seamless payments into the UK and Europe. Trust Payments, the global unified payments group, is the first customer to go live and begin benefitin

Buying a house amid the pandemic has been incredibly competitive in most areas, with demand for properties on the up as people outgrow their lockdown homes and the supply of new-build houses became limited due to delays with material and logistical issues - snapping up a pandemic property means home buyers need to be ahead of the game.