Euro Hits One-Month High; US Bond Yields Extend Fall

 UTA, a leading provider of fuel and service cards in Europe and an Edenred company, has partnered with The ai Corporation (ai), an expert for fraud prevention and payment solutions. This new partnership is founded on developing additional protection for UTA customers from the evolving global threat of fuel card fraud. The ai Corporation’s services will complement UTA's established range of security measures and the activities of UTA's internal fraud prevention team.

• Owens joins Liberis to build a suite of embedded finance products to serve Liberis’ partners with frictionless finance for their small businesses

• Further expanding the API driven Credit as a Service platform and advance Liberis’ machine learning capabilities and use of AI

• Top UK CIO 100 2019 and 2020, UK Top 50 Most Influential Women in Tech 2020 and 2021, Women in IT Awards nominee and winner

OKEx continues its commitment to the advancement of the crypto industry and decentralized finance with the launch of DeFi Hub

iwoca - one of Europe’s largest small business lenders - has today launched its industry-first cash advance product on Funding Xchange for small business online sellers.

iwoca will be the first lender in the UK - using Open Banking - to offer fully automated revenue-based repayments to e-commerce businesses with a business bank account on the marketplace.

• Specialist insurance firm Inigo Ltd is the best funded start-up of 2020-21, with $800,000,000 raised since launching in 2020
• Also within the top 10 is Genesis Digital Assets, a bitcoin mining operator
• Seven London-based businesses dominate the top 10

Specialist insurance firm Inigo Limited is the best-funded start-up of 2020-21, a new study reveals.

Marlin Equity Partners acquires a majority stake in Rydoo and becomes the major shareholder of the T&E management company. 

SIA's technology infrastructure will process the transactions

of credit and prepaid cards issued by the Austrian bank

BAWAG P.S.K., one of the largest banks in Austria with 2.3 million customers, has selected SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in payment services and infrastructures, controlled by CDP Equity, as the technology partner for the management and processing of the credit and prepaid cards portfolio issued by BAWAG P.S.K., easybank and PayLife.

Over two thirds (66 per cent) of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have said they felt let down by their banking provider during the Coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey. The data, collated by researchers from the Parliament Street Think Tank, indicates that the disconnect between businesses across Europe and financial services organisations has widened since the beginning of the pandemic.

Mobility payment solutions disruptor Bussr has forecast sales of $1 billion in 2022

Bussr offers a mobility payment solutions platform for businesses and users, powering payments infrastructure for the mobility market using the latest booking and ticketing innovations. More than 800 businesses have already signed on to use Bussr's platform, 100 of which, amounting to US$150 million in annual sales, will go live in 2021