Solactive is pleased to announce the acquisition of a minority stake in Spark Change. Inflows in ESG linked investments are at their all-time peak, and more investors are well-disposed towards integrating ESG factors into the investment process. At the same time, product providers’ and institutions’ ESG requirements are many-faceted, and one-size-fits-all solutions are simply non-existent.

DOM.RF Bank, one of the largest Russian mortgage banks, has been shortlisted as a finalist of the prestigious international Banking Tech Awards 2020 in the category “The Best Digital Initiative”. The Bank nominated a large-scale project for implementation of its own digital IT Platform based on the Digital Backbone concept, which is aimed to move the Bank’s housing finance and mortgage services to the fully digital environment.

With physical outlets locked down or suffering greatly reduced footfall during much of 2020, online has become the go-to sales channel for the majority of merchants across a huge variety of industries. e-commerce providers are under pressure to optimise their sales experience, which resurrects the thorny issue of ‘cart abandonment’ and how to minimise its impact.

LiquidityBook, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, announced the launch of a new Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) reporting solution. CAT reporting has always been among the sell-side reporting functionalities available to LiquidityBook’s OMS customers, but demand from non-OMS clients prompted the firm to develop a solution on a standalone basis for those who using either a competing OMS or no OMS at all.

Tinkoff, Russia's leading provider of online financial and lifestyle services via its Tinkoff ecosystem, announced its interim condensed consolidated IFRS results for the three months and nine months ended 30 September 2020.

Chip, the automatic saving app offering the best returns, celebrates four years since launch, as it evolves into a wealth builder. The fintech originally launched in beta in October 2016 before officially introducing the saving app to the public in February 2017. Since then, Chip has evolved from an app that helps people save their spare cash into a wealth builder, helping users put aside over £165 million along the way.

SIA, a leading European hi-tech company in the payment services and infrastructures sector, controlled by CDP Equity, launches a new digital service for banks, payment service providers and other financial institutions across Europe to allow their customers to speed-up the authentication process for online payments, in line with PSD2 security standards.

The initiative is powered by RiskShield, an advanced risk-evaluation system developed by the German company, INFORM.