Pelican today announced its support for SWIFT as it develops a new service for low value cross-border payments. This new service will enable banks to provide fast, easy, predictable, and frictionless cross-border payments for consumers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The service is expected to be ready by end of March 2021.

Global enterprise software firm R3 has launched Conclave, a confidential computing platform that secures sensitive business data while it’s being used.

Financial services organizations are increasingly challenged to efficiently screen parties and payments against required sanctions lists.

GTreasury, a treasury and risk management platform provider, today announced a partnership with Treasury Strategies (a division of Novantas, Inc.) that fully integrates Treasury Strategies’ NDepth bank fee analysis (BFA) capabilities into GTreasury’s comprehensive system for digital treasury.

Solidatus, the award-winning data lineage and metadata management company, is today announcing it has raised £14m ($19.2m+) in Series A funding to transform how organisations view, understand and manage data. AlbionVC led the round, which also includes HSBC Ventures, and Citi, two of Solidatus’ global enterprise clients. The deal was led by Emil Gigov and Jay Wilson of AlbionVC with Jay Wilson joining the Solidatus’ Board of Directors following the investment.

Allfunds Blockchain, the revolutionary blockchain technology arm of Allfunds, and ConsenSys, the leading Ethereum software company, have signed a partnership agreement to further support the streamlining of the fund distribution value chain, and other regulated industries.

Genesis, the global financial markets software firm, has been selected by StoneX (formerly known as INTL FCStone), to fully automate and digitise middle office workflows for its equities and fixed income trading business.

Mastercard and CleverCards have signed a strategic partnership to expand the usage of digital cards across Europe. The deal comes as CleverCards also joins Mastercard’s Fintech Express programme, propelling CleverCards to simplify the payments value chain across Europe to enable anyone, anywhere, anytime to be paid instantly by businesses.

Exberry (the exchange technology pioneer), Digital Asset (the creators of the open source Daml shared ledger development framework) and Baymarkets (the developer of the Clara clearing system) today announced the availability of cutting edge exchange infrastructure with central counterparty clearing functionality. This partnership will enable new digital asset marketplaces to launch on a fully-compliant, end-to-end exchange platform encompassing registry, custody, trading, matching and clearing services.

TreasurySpring, the London-based financial technology company that enables firms to minimise risk and maximise returns on excess cash balances, and Global Reach, a leading provider of foreign exchange and international payments, today announced that they have entered into a partnership to deliver seamless access to each other’s services for their clients.