• Pomanda is a platform for investors, advisers, professional service providers and the business owners they engage with.
• The first platform to be built around the transaction journey – no matter which stage or side of the deal you are on.
• Gives users  the tools to value companies, conduct business analytics and connect to deal-flow in a confidential and secure space. 
• Combines cutting edge technology, industry insight and academic research to modernise corporate finance.

New research released today shows that around 21million* current account holders may submit a Subject Access Request (SAR) to their bank after the General Data Protection Act goes live in May 2018. Around a further 8million** credit card holders will also ask for the information held on them.

Starting your own business can be challenging in today’s competitive and overcrowded market. Even if you have an original idea and a strong team to work with, getting access to and securing finance remains one of the biggest stumbling blocks to overcome.

The ai Corporation (ai) has acquired SmartCentric Technologies International Limited (SmartCentric) for an undisclosed sum. SmartCentric, which was established in December 2002, is a specialist solutions company, focused 100% on secure payments and transactions, particularly in the Fuel Card market.

Financial services comparison website GoCompare has selected prevero on the Azure cloud platform to enable a more sophisticated finance planning environment.

Prevero’s solution replaces previous systems and processes with flexible and sophisticated planning and forecasting capabilities in the cloud. The new system will better capture data and strengthen GoCompare’s planning and modelling capabilities. 

 Strands, a leading provider of business financial management technology, today announced the findings from its SME Banking: Intelligence - Not Applied, a study of over 200 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and banks serving over 1.3m SMEs. The study reveals SME’s current and future business banking requirements, and how close banks are to meeting those needs.

Intelligence - Not Applied

Financial IT interviews Anatoly Kvitnitsky, VP of Growth of Trulioo at PayExpo Europe 2017.

TCF National Bank (TCF Bank), a subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation (TCF) (NYSE: TCF), today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Rubicon Mortgage Advisors, LLC (Rubicon), a residential mortgage lender with offices in Minnesota and North Dakota and licenses to operate in South Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado and California. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed and the transaction is expected to close before the end of the calendar year. Rubicon’s 34 employees are expected to join TCF Bank following the closing of the agreement.

The international central securities depository (ICSD) Clearstream is about to launch its service to support the cross-border bond trading and settlement scheme “Bond Connect”, linking the China Interbank Bond Market (CIBM) with the world.