International markets provide unique diversification opportunities for investors.  Especially in times of economic uncertainty, having viable instruments of portfolio diversification at hand  becomes utterly vital. FinEx ETF, the leader of the booming Russian ETF market, launches an Exchange  Traded Fund aimed precisely at delivering investors this opportunity. The fund, which is the FinEx  Developed Markets ex-USA UCITS ETF, tracks the Solactive GBS Developed Markets ex United States 200  USD Index.

Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, has announced a partnership with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company. The partnership, the first of its kind in Africa, will enable merchants to accurately identify legitimate buyers from fraudsters, resulting in increased transaction approvals and reduced friction in the purchasing experience, all without the fear of fraud.

Payink, a fast-growing payments and receivables provider to professional services firms, has appointed Branislav Trajkovski as its CEO. Prior to joining Payink, Branislav scaled cross-border payments company Dlocal into a unicorn as the Global Head of Corporate Development and a Board Member.

Global FinTech Paysend has reached a new milestone of 3.5 million customers on its digital money and global money transfer platform.

Having reached 2.5 million customers on November 4th, 2020, the firm’s growth acceleration has continued at pace, and 2 million new users have joined the platform since the start of the pandemic in March of last year.

Venture capital investment manager Deepbridge Capital today announces that it has seen a record year of Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) fundraising, with £29.4 million deployed across 37 growth companies. This represents an increase from 2019/20 and 2018/19 in which £21 million and £28 million were deployed respectively.  Deepbridge manages the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS and the Deepbridge Life Sciences EIS.

RTGS.global, the world’s first real-time cross-border liquidity network, today announces the appointment of Dave Sissens as CEO. Dave will drive an accelerated commercial strategy at RTGS.global and operationalisation of the company’s services, as announced by RTGS.global founder Nick Ogden.

FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group’ or ‘FXCM’), the leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading and related services, is today announcing an expansion of its Single Share CFD and proprietary Stock Basket product lines.

Leading AI technology solutions provider, Pelican, announced today that Bank of Montreal (BMO) has recently gone live with Pelican Intelligent Financial Hub – STP, Pelican’s payment analytics, intelligent automation and straight-through processing (STP) solution. The bank and its customers will benefit from enhanced infrastructure and operational payment capabilities. 

Maven Capital Partners, one of the UK’s most active investors in growth businesses, has today announced that it has invested £2.5 million in Cardinality Ltd, a software and service provider which has developed a data ingestion and analytics platform called ‘Perception’, that enables its customers to run, manage and derive value from datasets in real time and at massive scale.

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a leading global payment processor and provider of integrated payment products, today announced the appointment of Sanjoy Bose as the Chief Revenue Officer – South Asia. Sanjoy will be responsible for growing FSS Business in the region, taking a customer-centric approach and driving high-quality engagements.