NatWest has today launched MentorDigital, a free new digital advice platform for SMEs, which offers employment law, HR and health and safety guidance, as the UK takes its next steps out of lockdown. 

The bank’s new Mentor digital service aims to help SMEs plan ahead to ensure both business owners and their staff are well protected, as they return to their workplaces in the months ahead, and increasing numbers of staff return to full time employment in a much changed work environment. 

ALPIMA, the SaaS platform for investment management and product design, has appointed Karen Tierney as Chief Product Officer. A member of ALPIMA’s leadership team, Karen is responsible for ensuring ALPIMA’s strategy and product build up is aligned with customer needs and that new capabilities are prioritised, planned and executed effectively. 

Karen joins ALPIMA from DWS, having previously held roles at RBS, Barclays, Deloitte and The National Bank of New Zealand. 

Murex, the global leader in trading, risk management and processing solutions for capital markets, is pleased to announce a significant partnership and platform integration with DDCAP Group™ (“DDCAP”), a leading provider of asset facilitation and trade execution services, which will streamline booking and processing of Sharia compliant transactions by financial institutions worldwide.

On February 20th 2020 the markets began to react to Covid-19, as one country after another was plunged into lockdown. On the 11th March the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic and by March 23rd the S&P had lost 34% of its value.  

Fast forward twelve months and the trading landscape has changed forever – but not necessarily as a consequence of the virus. Instead, the retail trading revolt of Reddit users has been the true catalyst to change the game entirely. Even more so than a global pandemic. 

SoePay, a FinTech subsidiary of Spectra Technologies Holdings Co. Ltd., today announced the launch of the SoftPOS solution for accepting contactless Visa and Mastercard card payments on any NFC-enabled Android smartphones that will revolutionize the customer experience of small and micro-merchants in Hong Kong.

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CubeLogic, the market leading provider of award-winning enterprise risk and compliance solutions announces the availability of S&P Global Market Intelligence data on its platform.

 Boku Inc., (AIM: BOKU), the world's leading provider of mobile payment and identity solutions and DAZN, the leading global sports streaming platform, today announced the launch of mobile payments for NTT Docomo. For 80 million NTT Docomo subscribers, they can now purchase DAZN subscriptions with just their phone number.

Today Nordic API Gateway further scales its fintech reach in Norway by empowering one of the fastest growing fintech companies Horde. With the open banking collaboration, Horde is making it possible to manage loans and receive better loan opportunities by consolidating credit card debt. Alongside that Horde has launched a social lending platform in which friends and family can lend each other money in a structured way based on open banking payments.

Hudson Fintech, the London-based Capital Markets technology firm, today announced the launch of Trade Hospital. A key component of the Hudson Edge technology platform, Trade Hospital acts as an advanced workflow management service which filters, aggregates and reconciles trade messages before sending optimised submissions to back office systems for confirmation and settlement.