The Mayor of the West Midlands, Andy Street, has launched £15bn worth of housing, regeneration, commercial and infrastructure development opportunities to international investors at the MIPIM property conference in Cannes, South of France.

MIPIM is the world’s leading real estate event, bringing together over 20,000 property professionals from around the world, including over 4,000 investors, representing hundreds of billions of pounds in capital.

Prizeout’s integration brings benefits directly to the local communities of Q2’s banking partners.

Baton Systems (“Baton”), the global fintech digitally transforming post-trade processing using distributed ledger technology (DLT), has announced the appointment of Ronn Baker as Senior Director of North American Sales.

Flutterwave will process payments for all events on Afritickets across the continent.

Event organisers on Afritickets will have access to eventgoers in over 34 countries.

Flutterwave, a leading technology company, has partnered with Afritickets – an end-to-end event ticketing platform – to create more revenue opportunities for event organisers in Africa and improve the ticketing experience for event goers.

Spring update to support tax, revenue recognition and regional compliance mandates to help customers expand globally

•        By partnering with leading gaming, entertainment, webtoon, metaverse, art and service companies, LINE NEXT aims to grow NFT markets

•        Partnerships will launch NFT collections and support trading on LINE NEXT's global NFT platform DOSI

GLMX Technologies LLC (“GLMX”), a comprehensive technology solution for trading money market instruments including repurchase agreements (repo) and securities lending, has announced the appointment of two senior executives: Gareth O'Loughlin as VP of Engineering and Joseph Russo as Director of Money Market Sales. Based in New York, they will support GLMX in its next phase of growth and play an important role in the firm’s development of a fully integrated digital ecosystem for trading front-end products.

December 2021 card spending data from UK Finance reveals that the average amount spent per contactless card transaction rose by almost 30 per cent following the contactless spending limit increasing from £45 to £100 in October last year.  

In September, prior to the contactless limit increase, the average spend per contactless payment was £11.86, which increased to £15.30 in December.  

The new solution, ITP Data Analytics, enables firms to research and optimize the timeliness and accuracy of their trade processing and compare it against peers while gaining operational insights as they prepare for T+1 in the U.S. and to meet regulations such as CSDR in Europe