As part of its activity to support Scale Up Week (18 – 21 May), NatWest has today launched a new flagship programme open to all SMEs across the UK, to help their business grow throughout 2021. Each year a specialised team of NatWest’s Acceleration Managers will host over 200 sessions across the UK, helping 1,400 businesses to scale up.

first direct has introduced a new transaction details feature on its mobile banking app, making it easier for customers to understand their spending, reducing confusion relating to unrecognised transactions.

HSBC announced a three-year global partnership with Bud back in 2019, and this announcement marks the integration of Bud’s data enrichment capabilities into first direct’s mobile app

Deutsche Bank and Silverflow have announced a global partnership to support the bank’s payments strategy. The partnership will include two new payment services, which are expected to launch in Autumn 2021. 

 Finastra today announced that UK-based property finance specialist, Glenhawk, has selected Fusion Essence Cloud, its next-generation banking solution, to support its growing lending business, by maximizing the operational efficiency of the loan approval and completion process.

Remediation is a hot topic at the moment for Financial Institutions (FIs), with KYC (Know Your Client) or more broadly, CDD (Customer Due Diligence) remediations remaining a key focus. However, reviewing customer due diligence records on an ongoing basis can be time consuming and resource heavy. The ever-growing ‘cost of compliance’, continual changes to the regulatory landscape and pressures on internal resource can often lead to backlogs in CDD refresh, or worse still, delays in onboarding new customers.

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New research from strategy consulting firm Edgar, Dunn & Company specialized in payments and digital financial services, commissioned by Nuvei Corporation (TSX: NVEI and NVEI.U), highlights the importance for marketplaces to build a future-proof payment strategy to maximize the opportunity for growth. The report “The Evolving Needs of Today's Marketplace.

Payslip, an automation and integration technology platform for global payroll management, today announced a successful close of an additional $10M to its Series A financing round, bringing the company’s total financing to $14.5M.

Klarna, the leading global banking, payments and shopping service, has today launched a major new nationwide campaign titled #WhyPayInterest. The campaign, which runs across OOH, online, on social media and in print, highlights the difference between buy now pay later products and traditional credit cards in the UK.

Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced SwitchApp for Arista 7130, a new ultra-low latency switch that cuts latency to less than a third of existing Arista solutions.