Reward Finance Group has reached a key business milestone by growing its regional loan book to £15m in London and the South East, with the SME lender also opening its London operational centre late last year and quadrupling the size of its team. 

Reward has supported over 40 firms across the region by providing the working capital to drive increased revenue, innovate, create new jobs or navigate through a difficult trading period.

Lloyds Bank Business & Commercial Banking has appointed Melinda Roylett as Managing Director, Merchant Services. Melinda will be based in London and report into Elyn Corfield, CEO, Business & Commercial Banking.

peaq, the Web3 network powering the Economy of Things, announces the expansion of its ecosystem. bloXmove, a developer of a shared mobility blockchain platform, joins in to launch its decentralized application and NFTicket components on peaq’s layer-1 blockchain network.

Bergos AG, an independent Swiss private bank specialising in wealth management, is delighted to announce the successful go-live of its new core banking solution in partnership with the global wealth management platform, FNZ. The successful implementation of the core solution was delivered in eight months thanks to the close collaboration and partnership between both companies. 

Paymob, the leading financial services enabler in the MENA-P region and Khazenly, Egypt’s premier on-demand digital warehousing and fulfilment management platform, announced today that they have signed a partnership agreement that will enable merchants to fully digitize business operations.

MyBank, the account-to-account payment solution, closes out 2022 with a record total annual transaction value above EUR 10 billion. 

The solution gained further traction over the last year thanks to a growing number of consumers and businesses that adopted MyBank to pay online and the increasing number of participating banks and other payment service providers that joined the solution. 

Liberis, a leading global embedded business finance platform, today announced that it has secured additional financing from Silicon Valley Bank UK to grow its European business.  

CellPoint Digital, the London-based pioneer of Payment Orchestration, has announced it is partnering with Akwaaba, a multinational food, grocery and household goods retailer.

Cashflows, the platform that makes it easy for merchants to accept payments, today announces it has been selected by Shawbrook Bank to process a selection of payments. The news comes as Cashflows marks another year of impressive growth with a pipeline of new products and innovations set to launch in 2023.