·         Danske Bank, Denmark’s leading bank, supported by Nets, will bring Dankort to Apple Pay

·         Dankort is the preferred means of payment for Danish consumers and accounts for the largest number of card transactions in the country

Pole Star is pleased to announce the appointment of Peter Fen as Head of Architecture and Engineering. Peter will drive Pole Star’s solutions innovation to deliver enhanced levels of efficiency, transparency, and sustainability across the supply chain.

Tech Nation welcomes 31 fast-growing tech companies from across the UK into its Upscale growth programme

• Investment in 4R Digital Ltd to build a platform that will use digital technology to help democratise access to climate finance for small, green projects in Africa
• The Carbon Value Exchange’s (CaVEx) use of remote monitoring technology will create verifiable carbon credits from projects such as solar pumps, electric vehicles, and nature-based solutions, as well as use digital finance to deliver proceeds from credit sales directly to project participants

The two banks are expanding their long-standing partnership with Avaloq by moving their respective web and mobile banking solutions to Avaloq’s Engage platform.

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R3 has acquired the technology and team of the financial asset tokenization specialist Ivno, enabling the use of Ivno-developed capabilities across the Corda platform. This acquisition further strengthens R3’s capabilities in the digital assets and currency space.

Partnership with SWIFT enables integrated cross-border payments tracking

Bottomline (NASDAQ:EPAY), a leading provider of financial technology that makes business payments simple, smart and secure, today announced the latest API-based payments tracking service for banks worldwide, integrating SWIFTgpi data. The gpi data is captured on behalf of Bottomline clients and is integrated into their payments workflow, which simplifies and unifies the API access points.

 GoldenSource today announced that ICE’s ESG Reference Data service will now be integrated with GoldenSource ESG Impact, which provides ESG data for buyside and sellside investors. ICE’s ESG Reference Data offers detailed ESG information and analytics that can be essential for investment decisions, risk management, regulatory reporting, and meeting stated goals in sustainability.

• 84% of small businesses suffer from late payments, with one in eight waiting more than 60 days to be paid
• 92% of small business owners and sole traders say late payments have a negative impact either on their business, themselves, or both
• One in four small business owners say late payments are limiting their ability to grow their business

• New QR-code based tomato pay app offers an affordable invoicing and payment solution for small businesses