Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading digital lending marketplaces and embedded finance providers,  has appointed Richard Parfitt as Head of Data Science. 

Following this appointment, Richard will lead Freedom Finance’s data products initiative, building and managing a multi-disciplinary team to develop new services for customers and enhance data-driven capabilities driving further automation and intelligence. 

TRANCH, a buy now pay later (BNPL) platform for SaaS sellers and services providers, has raised $100 million in seed equity and debt funding to bring payment flexibility to a wider pool of B2B customers.

AstroPay, the online payment solution of choice for millions of users worldwide, has today announced the launch of a Visa prepaid card in Peru issued by Tebca Perú, that will allow users to make purchases at any e-commerce store that accepts Visa.  The launch is part of the company’s growth plans and ambition to empower customers – especially those without a bank account – to access the digital economy and engage in online transactions.

Sprout.ai, the claims automation technology solution for the insurance industry, has signed a partnership with AdvanceCare.

Plum, the smart European money app, is today announcing its launch in five new European countries: Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus.

Travel companies are being urged to invest more in their payments and booking experiences to avoid losing out on the January holiday booking boom, as new data released today by open banking platform 

How does a Treasurer mitigate the volatility of today’s markets when they also need to manage an increasing number of different data types to return value to the CFO? A treasury platform has to, therefore, accommodate all the data that the Treasurer needs to make the right decision. Whether you are a domestic business or a large multinational, data is the empowerer - both in terms of being able to collect and accommodate high amounts of data, and translate that data into a useful visualization for effective decision-making.

Worldline, a global leader in payment services, has participated in the compilation of the report entitled “Tokenise Europe 2025: Initiative aims to drive tokenisation”. AnchorThe European Commission and the Association of German Banks have co-founded an initiative on the importance of tokenisation with the support of the management consultancy Roland Berger and the participation of over 20 member organisations from France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Liechtenstein, Sweden and Spain.

Systematic hedge funds are changing long-standing attitudes to how they source and develop their front-office technology stacks, a recent study by Acuiti shows. 

The study, Brining the case for buy-and-build to the front office, revealed a shift in attitudes among systematic hedge funds towards sourcing and developing their front-office technology stacks.