Digital vouchers available for purchase at retailers within a one mile radius of 99% of the UK’s urban households

2^nd CIS Islamic Banking and Finance Forum will convene in Tashkent – Uzbekistan on October 21, 2021 to explore and discuss innovative financial inclusion strategies that can create clear pathways to financial and economic Solutions. AlHuda CIBE organizing the 2^nd CIS Forum with the collaboration of Multilateral Partner Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector- ICD. ICD is one of the premier Islamic multilateral financial institutions for the development of the private sector.

• Virgin Money Sustainable Business Coach provides an objective assessment of a business’ ESG impacts, with guidance on how to improve
• Free app is available to all UK businesses, not just Virgin Money customers
• App was developed in partnership with fintech Life Moments and not-for-profit Future-Fit Foundation

• Angular Ventures announces $80M Fund II to continue backing early-stage enterprise and deep-tech companies across Europe and Israel

• Open Banking credit reference agency, Credit Kudos, launches highly accurate, explainable Open Banking credit score, Signal.
• Signal leverages Credit Kudos’ wealth of Open Banking insights to translate transaction data into a score to accurately assess someone’s creditworthiness in real-time. 
• Signal enables lenders to accurately assess all applicants - not just those with previous credit history - using highly relevant, up-to-date financial behaviour. 

Europe’s leading fintech scales its operations within the U.S. through the acquisition of America’s largest local commerce network 

Digital bank Zopa has announced the appointment of Helen Beurier as its first Chief People Officer. 

Implementation of TRM Labs’ tools further strengthens XREX’s ability to monitor transactions to ensure a clean and secure ecosystem

- China Minsheng Bank, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Chase  are latest to go live to support small businesses and consumers  with fast, secure, predictable cross-border payments 

- Rapid adoption of SWIFT Go since launch in July reinforces  SWIFT strategy for instant, frictionless cross-border transactions 

• Today, Creditspring launches ‘Step’, a new credit builder product which helps people improve their credit score, restore their financial health and to access affordable forms of credit.
• This comes as new Creditspring research finds that 28% of 18–34-year-olds are unaware of how to improve their credit score.