• iwoca announces expansion of its merchant cash advance product to all businesses accepting card payments in the UK following successful launch with FundingXchange

• Research reveals that 87% of SME owners who use loan products said they believe that a revenue-based loan would be better or the same as using a term loan 

Synechron, Inc., a leading digital transformation consulting firm focused exclusively on the fi

International payments are the most significant barrier to British SMBs expanding internationally, according to new research by Wise Business, the business account for going global. 

The new research, which saw YouGov poll more than 4,800 SMBs worldwide, found that almost a third (30%) of all British SMBs surveyed who have been put off from international expansion, have been put off by the cost and complexity of managing international payments. Handling tariffs and taxes (28%) came second, with supply chain disruption (24%) third. 

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time digital payment software and solutions, today announced it is extending its partnership with PayPoint, the leading provider of innovative technology and payment services, to drive modernization of its payments business. PayPoint, a long-standing customer, will utilize 

Undoubtedly, the pandemic has left a significant impact on the day-to-day life of most businesses and people. In just a few days, all the live conferences and events were canceled or postponed. These engagements were drastically adjusted online, and virtual events became the new normal.

WHO declares Omi "Very High Risk".

Rally on new information. Now sell.

Quick question, why are our politicians constantly saying Australia is best in the world at everything?

Something is going off the rails in this country.

Oh, you already noticed!

As the importance of cybersecurity has increased, so has our awareness of it. Poor cybersecurity has been identified as the most pressing threat to businesses today. Issues with cybersecurity often stem from a lack of cybersecurity awareness. In fact, according to the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report, a lack of cybersecurity awareness was identified as the biggest detriment to an organisation’s cyber-defences.

Summary: Risk aversion dominated financial markets after Fed Chair Jerome Powell signalled an earlier end to bond tapering. Powell said that it is time to retire the term “transitory” for inflation. Uncertainty over Omicron rose after the chief executive of vaccine developer Moderna, told the Financial Times that existing vaccines may not be as effective against the new variant. The CBOE VIX Index, a popular measure of the stock market’s expectation of volatility rebounded to 27.56 from 22.90, up 18.4%.

It’s all about the clues in the price action and less about how severe the actual health impact will be at the moment. The bargain hinters are exhausted. That buying is spent. The real money is bewildered, unsure, holding in hope or selling a little. We have not seen the big selling yet. This is something to take into account, if you think we have already seen a big fall. It is all about the leveraged invested broad market long positioning globally, being hit by national border controls being re-instituted. As well as fresh national restrictions in parts of Europe.

The former head of JP Morgan’s Americas electronic equity sales, Fischer joins as Tourmaline also adds two key operations hires to meet increasing industry demand for outsourced trading services.