Fintech Connect, the UK’s largest fintech show, today revealed the agenda for its 2021 programme. This year’s line-up for the Leaders Summit includes CEOs from major European challenger banks such as Starling and Ziglu. The virtual event will feature speakers from major banks, challenger banks, fintechs, big techs and brands such as Facebook, Uber, and Barclays. Speaker highlights include:

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• Only 35% of Brits are satisfied with the loyalty rewards they get from their bank; while 37% of credit card holders don’t know what interest rate they are getting
• 56% of young people (18-24 year olds) are interested in a credit card from their favourite high street brand and 55% are willing to take a credit card from their favourite band or artist

Multi-asset trading venue 24 Exchange has selected financial markets data science firm FairXchange for independent execution analytics.

Leading mortgage technology provider Twenty7Tec today announces that Coutts, the wealth manager and private bank,  has added its mortgage product range including fixed rate and tracker products, to the Twenty7Tec SOURCE module. 

By adding their products to SOURCE, Coutts is now able to provide information on its product range and criteria to the more than 15,000 daily adviser users of CloudTwenty7, the Twenty7Tec platform.

Open Future World, Ozone API and UK Finance are delighted to announce the winners of the world’s first variable recurring payments hackathon. The six week event, sponsored by Accenture, Mastercard, Volt and Worldpay from FIS, was an opportunity for developers, banks, payment initiation service providers and tech platforms to demonstrate potential use cases and propositions that open banking VRPs can deliver.

New research reveals speed of response is most important factor for 23% of consumers; highlights perception gap between consumer expectations and brand performance

Xero joins Shopify Plus Certified App Program and launches new Xero & Shopify integration

Xero, the global small business platform, today announced a new integration with Shopify and revealed it has joined the Shopify Plus Certified App Program (PCAP), a select group of partners that supports the advanced needs of Shopify’s global merchants.

Combined, the M1ST Payments Network reaches over 30 million consumer accounts in Thailand alone

ION, a leading global provider of trading, analytics, business information and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, today announces the appointment of Robert Cioffi as Global Head of Equities Product Management. Robert joins ION Markets with over 25 years’ product management experience in Financial Services.

Insig AI plc (AIM: INSG), the data science and machine learning solutions company serving the asset management industry, is pleased to announce it has entered into a conditional share purchase agreement to acquire the entire issued share capital of FDB Systems Limited (“FDB Systems”) (the “Acquisition”).