Digital payments have helped businesses get paid safely and efficiently through the COVID-19 lockdowns and associated restrictions, but new challenges are arising as economies reopen. With supply chain disruptions, the ‘great resignation’, rising inputs such as fuel, and the expense of reopening top of mind for businesses, now is an opportune time to build on the processes optimised throughout the pandemic, especially across B2B trade. 

Spice Money, India’s leading rural fintech that is revolutionising the way Bharat banks, today announced that it has partnered with Religare Broking Ltd. (RBL) to enable rural citizens to apply for the mega LIC IPO, a first-of-its-kind investment opportunity. Through this association, Religare Broking and Spice Money aim to provide rural citizens with equitable access to investment opportunities, thus, taking a step further in bridging the rural-urban divide and augmenting financial inclusion.

Cohesity, a leader in next-gen data management, today announced it was named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System 2022 Vendor Assessment. This is the first year this MarketScape has been published. 

BingX has upgraded its platform to Version 3.0, which aims to improve its competitiveness and ease of use for traders.

Among the new features, an integration of spot and contract markets allows users to easily view their favourite spot and contract markets simultaneously. This current market conditions at any instant is especially useful to professional traders.

As the world's leading social trading platform, BingX is committed to a user-centric experience and is always looking to enhance its offerings.

Tech-focussed investment bank ICON Corporate Finance has hired Mobility sector expert, Sumeet Pillai. With a background in VC, investment banking and corporate development, Sumeet has partnered with companies and investors throughout the growth lifecycle: from Series A, and mid-to-late-stage growth, to publicly listed companies.  

Spectrum Markets, the pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, announced today it has further strengthened its European presence as it welcomes Equita, one of Italy’s largest independent investment banks, and among the leaders in market making and specialist activities in Italy, as a direct Member of the exchange.

Equita will provide its network of clients and banking groups access to Spectrum Markets via its brokerage service offering, enabling their retail clients to trade securitised derivatives on the venue.

The Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) predicts that by 2026, £1.3bn could be made in cost savings for British businesses and consumers through real-time payments – helping to generate an additional add £2.6bn economic output, equivalent to 0.11% of formal GDP, as part of a new report, Prime Time for Real Time, published by ACI Worldwide.

SQream announced today that Panoply, their no-code cloud data platform that makes it easy to sync, store, and access business data, has partnered with globally trusted commerce solutions company Square to deliver deeper analytics insights to Square sellers. Panoply’s new pre-built dashboards feature uses data recipes to provide Square sellers with robust reporting and analytics, in just a few clicks.