Quant, the blockchain for finance pioneer, has announced its connectivity to the Avalanche blockchain via a new release of its Overledger platform.

The development is part of Quant’s push to make blockchain simple, trusted, and future-proof, allowing firms to launch projects that can work alongside their legacy systems without disruption, as well as across different blockchains.

Concerns around tight personal finances are putting people off using their own credit cards for work expenses, according to research commissioned by Emburse, the global leader in spend optimisation. The research also showed that companies were slow to respond to the demand, despite an increase in expense fraud related to current economic conditions. 

Published today, the British Business Bank’s Small Business Finance Markets 2022/23 report shows £35.5bn of bank lending came from challenger and specialist banks in 2022. This exceeded lending by the major banks during the period, giving challenger and specialist banks a 55% share of the market

Gross bank lending increased by 12.8% in 2022, however, net lending fell by £8.5bn in large part reflecting repayment of Covid loans.

Digital Asset Research (DAR), a leading provider of ‘clean’ crypto data, insights, and research, announced today that it joined the Pyth network, an oracle solution designed to deliver real-time, high-fidelity, market data on the blockchain on a sub-second timescale.

Informa PLC (“Informa”), a London-based events production, digital products and academic research services agency will host F

SESAMm, a leader in natural language processing (NLP), a field of artificial intelligence, today announced the close of a Series B2 funding round of €35 million (USD 37 million) to accelerate its ambitious growth and global expansion plans. 

Securing this funding will enable SESAMm to further expand into U.S. and Asian markets, support technology development to generate AI-powered ESG and sentiment analytics, and hire key talent across sustainability, technology, sales, and marketing.

Metia Group, the global B2B marketing agency, has appointed Liz High to the position of Practice Lead, Financial Services with a focus on growing Metia’s business in the financial services sector, supporting clients with data-driven insight, strategy, research, brand, PR, AR and digital marketing programmes.  

iFX EXPO Asia 2023 is the premier event for business networking and collaboration in the financial and fintech space. The event is set to take place from June 20 to 22, 2023, in the vibrant city of Bangkok, Thailand. Following the resounding success of the previous edition, this year the event returns to the exotic city, greater and more vibrant than ever. For over a decade, iFX EXPO has set the standard for high-calibre fintech exhibitions.

Wise, the global technology company building the best way to move and manage money is today rolling out a new look and feel. This comes as the company announced that it has reached 16 million customers served worldwide, and revealed plans for further global expansion.

The complete visual makeover features a fresh green palette and a bold new font, and draws from global currencies, languages, alphabets and places around the world.