Atom has appointed Andy Sturrock as the bank’s new Chief Technologist.

Andy joins Atom from BP plc, where he most recently ran the company’s Digital Consumer Channels and Offers teams, including the BPMe app and loyalty schemes. During his time at BP, Andy introduced a number of new methodologies and technologies including Agile, DevOps and the cloud, first in the trading business, before rolling them out across the entire company.

Kiln, a leading enterprise-grade staking platform for institutions, crypto-native and fintech companies, today announced the completion of a $5 million funding round. The funding round included Third Kind Managing Partner and Andreessen Horowitz board partner Shana Fisher, SV Angel, Blue Yard, Alven and Kima Ventures. 

DivideBuy, the leading UK point-of-sale (POS) finance pioneer, has today announced the appointment of Teresa Byrne to Chief Commercial Officer to drive its ongoing growth strategy of enhancing platform automation and product innovation.

DIGISEQ, the wearable payments tech pioneer, has today announced its partnership with German mobile payment and banking app, VIMpay, to provide prepaid or tokenised payment accounts to customers’ wearable items.

JARVIS Invest, India’s first Artificial Intelligence (AI) based investment advisory startup, has crossed an important milestone in April 2022. Founded in December 2016, JARVIS Invest has since grown to onboard 75000+ clients across 800 partners as of April 2022. The registered client base has grown multifold from about 500 in 2020 to over 75000+ now. The assets under advisory (AUA) has crossed INR 100 crore as of April 2022 from INR 13.7 lakh in 2019-20, a rise of 730x in two years. 

In the previous decade, a popular narrative has emerged warning of the significant threats that fintech firms like Revolut, Monzo, Starling and Atom Bank pose to the

Olea Global Pte. Ltd., a digitised supply chain platform that empowers sustainable trade, and Vayana Network, India's largest trade finance platform have announced a partnership which plans to provide exporters and importers in India with timely access to alternative liquidity.

Temenos today announced that stc pay, the Middle East’s leading digital wallet, is live on Temenos open platform for composable banking. Temenos’ cloud-native platform has supported stc pay to scale efficiently to more than 8 million accounts.

stc pay makes it easy for customers to manage money on their smartphone, send and receive payments from anywhere around the globe, shop online and withdraw funds from ATMs.

The pandemic, left little option for consumers but to turn to online solutions that offered seamless access to products and services when they were otherwise unavailable. In the process, they gained more confidence in online and ecommerce services - especially with the associated improvements in security and protection during this time.

While a good product or service offering is crucial in running a successful business, it’s important not to neglect the behind-the-scenes functionality. Here’s what you need to keep in mind:

1. Security first