Spectrum Markets (“Spectrum”), the pan-European trading venue for securitised derivatives, has joined the German Derivatives Association (DDV), as a supporting member to underpin the association's work for structured products.

The DDV represents the issuers of structured securities to improve the political and regulatory framework for structured products in Germany and Europe and to contribute to the increasing level of private investors opting for certificates and warrants.

One of the biggest challenges faced by regulated and non-regulated companies is assessing whether or not another business is safe to work with. 

Existing approaches rely on manual research across multiple siloed sources. This is time-consuming and fails to give the holistic risk overview necessary to make an informed decision.

TS Imagine, the leading global, cross-asset provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for financial institutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Christian Dietmann to its EMEA sales team. Based in the company’s London office, Christian will focus primarily on UK sales, reinforcing the growing team's capabilities.

TaxNodes, a crypto tax computation and expert-assisted ITR filing platform today announced complimentary Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) for all eligible customers filing Income Tax Return through their platform. This announcement is an effort by TaxNodes to bring more users into the realm of Web3.0, and show gratitude to Indian taxpayers for staying compliant and filing their taxes on time using the platform. 

The UK’s largest independent invoice finance provider, Bibby Financial Services (“BFS”) has appointed Gayle Robertson as Business Development Manager as it continues to drive new business volumes throughout Scotland.

With almost two decades of experience in banking and commercial finance, Gayle joins from Lloyds Banking Group where she spent 19 years supporting SMEs in both operational and sales roles. Her most recent role with the bank was Associate Director Invoice Finance.

Iliad Solutions is pleased to announce the general release of its T3 test and certification platform for New Payments Architecture. The solution is used in precertification mode to underpin the Pay.UK Self Validation Testing. The general release is further enhanced to integrate and simulate the back-end systems that Financial Institutions use to interoperate with NPA. This results in a fully automated end-to-end solution.

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated innovation and forced insurers to attract market share through digital solutions that drive efficient distribution and create an excellent customer experience. The future for insurers has to be to finally make the shift from push selling to engaging with their customers based on understanding their needs, creating customer learning and new experiences. And a big portion of these interactions along customer journeys will be predominantly digital.

Doorda announces that insurance clients Intelligent AI and Konsileo are using their unique and trusted UK data sets to enable more complete and accurate client profiling.

The UK commercial property insurance sector has faced tough times over the past several years - inflation, valuations, supply chains, Brexit and wider global unrest have all impacted risk measurement processes and premiums.

HedgeFlows, a FinTech platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has partnered with Travelex to help people plan against volatile exchange rates.

The partnership sees the launch of a secure exchange rate product, enabling UK holidaymakers to secure rates ahead of their holiday and protect travel money against currency fluctuations.

Siqi Chen, the former president of Sandbox VR, the brick-and-mortar VR experience franchise, didn’t always have a strong grasp of finance. And it’s something he felt self-conscious about.