After introducing its first three launches in Malaysia, India, and Indonesia, the international Forex broker OctaFX now makes its iOS OctaFX Trading App available on the Singaporean App Store—starting from March. The same goes for its Nigeria and Pakistan equivalents. These regional launches will be followed by a full app release for all service regions in 2022.The global Forex broker OctaFX recently dropped its iOS OctaFX Trading App to one more ––Singapore.

Funding round led by ‘Nclude by Global Ventures’ – the new Fintech fund launched to accelerate Egypt’s Financial Innovation 

Lucky, Egypt’s leading app for credit products, offers and cashback rewards, announces its completion of a $25 million fund raise. 

• SEBA Bank’s ETP suite consists of Single Coin tracker certificates in Bitcoin, Ether and Polkadot 

• SEBAX® – the market leading and award winning Digital Asset Index – exchange traded product is now also listed at Euronext

• The entire ETP offering will be listed in USD at Euronext Amsterdam and in EUR at Euronext Paris 

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The leading global market research company Forrester has included Vilja, as the only Nordic digital banking platform vendor, in their newly published report: Now Tech: Digital Banking Processing Platforms (Retail Banking), Q1 2022, authored by Forrester vice president and principal analyst Jost Hoppermann.

The overview is based on market presence and functionality. Vilja’s core banking platform is identified in the New School vendor functionality segment. Vendors in this segment offer “state-of-the-art technology.”

NATWEST LAUNCHES CARBON TRACKER PILOT TO HELP SMES GO AND GROW GREENER

●        New research from NatWest reveals 87% of UK SMEs are unaware of their businesses carbon emissions

●        Almost half (45%) say it’s important to lower carbon emissions in the next five years 

●      Climate tech company Lune has announced a funding round led by Crane, with participation from 15 angel investors

●      Lune’s API and low/no code tools enable companies to integrate emissions calculations and carbon removal into their existing products and services

●      By making climate impact a part of the customer experience, it fundamentally shifts the narrative from ‘climate impact as a cost centre’ to ‘climate impact as a growth driver’

• The new solution makes it easier for businesses to manage cash flow, expands payment options and helps suppliers get paid on time
• Nearly two-thirds of suppliers experienced increased payment times from large businesses during the pandemic, and 50,000 small businesses go under each year due to late payments
• Mastercard Track™ is a suite of products and services that are already benefiting businesses around the world, with HSBC the first issuer to bring the Card to Account Transfer solution to the UK

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