Data-driven technology company Connected Data is pleased to announce that Emma Peach has joined the team as General Counsel and Data Protection Officer.

Emma brings with her over 30 years of experience in commercial and privacy law, having held senior leadership roles across some of the world’s largest organisations in the data and financial services space, including Experian and TransUnion.

Abrigo, the leader of compliance, credit risk, and lending solutions for financial institutions, announced an alliance with Validis, a secure data ingestion platform that pulls clients’ financial information in real-time, standardized for easy consumption. This partnership will allow financial institutions to extract general ledger data quickly and efficiently.

Marketplace payment engine Paycast, the second venture of UK based fintech group SPG, has announced the appointment of Christian Elson as its Head of Partnerships.

In his new role, Christian will be responsible for Paycast’s partnerships strategy, and building and maintaining the integral relationships with key global players within the wider payments infrastructure that are essential to the company’s exciting growth plans for 2022.

Visa is today bringing the She’s Next Grant Programme back to Ireland, to support women entrepreneurs to run, fund and grow their businesses.  

Previse today announced that it has closed the first phase of its Series B financing. The UK-based fintech has raised USD 18 million of new capital to expand the availability of its innovative ‘data-driven’ working capital finance solutions, designed for SMEs.

The round was led by Tencent, a global leading technology company, along with participation from existing investors including Augmentum Fintech and Reefknot.

tell.money, the fintech platform that delivers innovative and rapidly deployable Open Banking solutions for banks and other account providers, has strengthened its Board with the appointment of Stuart Wakefield as Chief Operating Officer, and Marcus Raithatha as Chief Financial Officer.

Xceptor, the financial sector’s leading no-code software platform for data automation, today announced the appointments of Josh Monroe as Chief Revenue Officer and Ludovic Blanquet as Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer.

The number of FinTech companies has grown from 126 to 222 entities since 2016 in the Philippines. On average, about 15 to 20 new startups appear each year, while 10 to 15 companies close their doors, unable to withstand the competition. The largest growth occurred in the mobile wallets, online payments and wire transfers segments.

FOO is an award-winning, B2B Fintech solutions provider in the MENA region, which has begun to expand operations into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to support digital transformation efforts sweeping across the nation.

Nuapay (EML Payments Limited's Open Banking business), is now connected to banks in another 20 countries in Europe, becoming one of the first open banking operators to provide complete connectivity across the Eurozone and expand into Eastern Europe and non-Euro Nordics.