Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, is proud to announce that the company’s Chief Compliance Officer & UK Chair, Willem Wellinghoff, has joined the Advisory Board of the Payments Association (PA). With more than 20 years’ experience in financial services, financial crime and technology, Willem brings to the role a unique legal and compliance perspective on payments and lending.

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More than three-quarters (76%) of business finance specialists say the Government’s policies have had a negative impact on the UK’s 5.5m small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the situation predicted to worsen at the Budget. 

The new research finds that the criticisms of the Government’s impact on SMEs has grown, rising from 70% last quarter. 

Tech Mahindra, a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, announced the launch of i.GreenFinance, an advanced sustainable lending platform designed to transform the origination, evaluation and management of green and sustainability-linked loans for financial institutions worldwide.

Grasshopper, a client-first, full service digital bank, and Narmi, a leading digital-banking-platform provider, today announced the next evolution of their groundbreaking Model Context Protocol (MCP) server deployment, with expanded functionality to support ChatGPT from OpenAI, an AI research and development company, and OAuth 2.0-based authorization for secure, permissioned data access. 

Barker, a pioneering Fintech firm that transforms illiquid asset valuations into insurance-backed instruments, secured $3.5 million in funding led by Walkabout VC. The new capital will accelerate expansion of Barker’s agentic valuation system, delivering real-time, enforceable hard asset valuations across asset-backed finance.

pay.com.au, the end-to-end payments and rewards platform, today announced it has successfully attracted AUD$53 million in its latest capital raise round, propelling the company’s strategic growth and international expansion plans. 

Today, the British Business Bank responds to an updated mandate from the UK Government by publishing a five-year strategic plan for delivering a step change in how UK smaller businesses are financed.

The Bank’s mission is to drive economic growth by helping smaller businesses get the finance they need to start, scale and stay in the UK.

Episode Six, a leading global technology provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure, today announced its partnership with leading wealth app Sharesies, to support its newly released debit card. The debit card is the first of its kind in New Zealand to allow customers to earn investments on their spending.

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