FinecoBank, one of Europe’s leading fintech banks, today reported a strong acceleration from its UK client base in the last few months of 2020, and an overall increase in active clients on brokerage. Fineco’s UK total current accounts increased by about 70% during 2020, while the ratio between active accounts on trading and total active current accounts jumped 63% from 15% in 2019.

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OpenWay was recognized as the highest-ranked vendor of payment processing platforms in the global market by Aite, a global research and advisory group.

Cobalt, a multi award-winning provider of risk and settlement infrastructure, announced today its partnership with EPAM Systems, Inc.

Itiviti, a leading technology and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, today announced that the London Metal Exchange (LME) has chosen Itiviti’s FIX Conductor and VeriFIX Enterprise solutions to automate the onboarding process for their clients. 

Valour, the Swiss-based issuer of investment products that provide exposure to innovative technologies, today announced the appointment of former HSBC Private Banking Global Head of Innovation, Diana Biggs, as CEO.

Keeping up with the upbeat momentum in the global crypto industry, CoinDCX is pleased to announce its latest crypto-to-crypto (C2C) product offering, Cosmex. Cosmex is CoinDCX’s global product that reimagines how crypto trading works and gives an entirely new, powerful, and simple model to crypto trading.

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.