Danish startup, Female Invest (www.femaleinvest.com), is an EdTech platform and community which, through approachable subscription-based e-learning, empowers millennial and Gen Z women by increasing their understanding of personal finance and investing.

Dynamic Planner has boosted specialist expertise in its Proposition Team with the appointment of Steph Willcox as Head of Actuarial Implementation.  This latest appointment follows the recent expansion of Dynamic Planner’s Sales and Marketing teams and underlines the accelerating growth of the business. 

PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Power Finance Corporation Ltd. (PFC), has complete the process of incorporating Lucknow based Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) Company- Mohanlalganj Transmission Limited as its wholly owned subsidy.

Validis, a leader in Open Finance technology, announces its membership with the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA) Europe.

Validis connects global banks, fintechs and accounting firms via a single API to access on-demand business information, data and analytics. Joining the FDATA member community will open up further collaboration with the growing Open Finance ecosystem and provide a platform for shared intelligence and market insight.  

Global FinTech Paysend today announces the global rollout of its new Paysend 4.0 app, combining the firm’s international transfers, multicurrency accounts and cross-border payments in a simple, top performing, all-in-one digital APP. The launch started in UK and is being rolled-out all over Europe.

The elephant in the room

What will happen at the intersection of financial services and IT as the world returns to inflation?

What is at the front of mind of entrepreneurs and executives who work at that part of the global economy where financial services and technology meet? If you only have two minutes or so, skim read every article and advertisement  in this edition of Financial IT.

As one of the Kiwi pioneers in responsible investing, major Aotearoa New Zealand asset manager Kiwi Wealth has collaboratedwith German index engineer Solactive  to create a bespoke benchmark aligned with the asset manager’s own sustainability principles. This new  index – the Solactive Kiwi Global Markets Screened Index – took effect on 1 June and is now utilised as the  benchmark for Kiwi Wealth’s Core Global Equity Fund. The index covers the largest c.3,000 companies in  Developed and Emerging Markets and excludes any company on the Kiwi Wealth exclusion list. 

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA), a global member association seeking to foster standardisation within the financial industry by upholding the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) principles and by promoting International Securities Identification Numbers (ISINs), Classification of Financial Instrument codes (CFIs), and Financial Instrument Short Names (FISN), for financial instruments, announced today the appointment of a new board member Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartościowych SA, (KDPW SA), represented by  Slawomir Zajac, as well as th

Interview with Mark Jenkinson, Co-Founder and Director of Strategy of Chetwood Financial

Financial IT: Chetwood Financial (Chetwood) was launched in 2016 and gained a full banking license at the end of 2018. What was the motivation to start a new challenger bank in the first place? Put another way, what were the problems of banking customers that you sought to solve?