BVNK, the crypto-powered payments and banking platform for businesses, has secured USD 40m in Series-A funding to drive growth as it brings traditional finance and crypto together. The investment will fuel BVNK's launch into new markets, including the USA, accelerate its acquisition of regulatory licences, and support the expansion of product capabilities. 

Application programming interfaces (APIs), which enable communication between different applications and between applications and end-users, are more common than ever. In fact, nearly 90% of developers now use APIs. But as they’ve become more ubiquitous, they’ve also become easier to exploit.

The world’s only freemium open banking platform, 

Fintech business HUB Group has appointed Rob Hudson into the new role of Chief  Commercial Officer. Rob will start in June and report to Group Chief Executive David Cooper. 

HUB Group is a part of the FTSE 250 retirement specialist Just Group and provides corporate  solutions to some of the biggest UK companies; pension schemes and regulated advice and  guidance services to employees and scheme members. 

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), a global private investment firm, announced today that Amr Nosseir, who has spent the past 30 years working closely with sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, and other institutional and non-institutional investors across the Middle East, has become a Senior Advisor to the Firm.  

Temenos, the cloud banking platform, today announced that Saigon-Hanoi Bank (SHB) has selected Temenos to accelerate its digital transformation. SHB is one of the largest joint-stock commercial banks in Vietnam, serving more than five million individual and corporate customers.

OTC Markets Group Inc., operator of financial markets for 12,000 U.S. and global securities, announced that Fearnley Securities, a leading independent full-service investment bank with offices in Oslo and New York, has been designated as an OTCQX sponsor.

MANGOPAY, a major European payment solutions provider for marketplaces and platforms, announced the appointment of Luke Trayfoot as Chief Revenue Officer. In this newly created position, Luke takes on a critical leadership role to help MANGOPAY accelerate its international expansion as well as improve revenue streams for this next phase of growth.

As part of its drive to expand its financial services offering, global cloud-based payments provider Checkout.com today announced its intent to acquire digital identity verification (IDV) startup, ubble.
 

For the first time, THE INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS OF CYPRUS (ICPAC) held the ICPAC Mediterranean Finance Summit at the Parklane Hotel Limassol, Cyprus on the 5th - 6th of May 2022.