NatWest’s asset finance arm, Lombard, has today announced the launch of a new digital service that allows businesses to receive instant agreement to fund assets such as cars, vans, machinery and technology, up to a maximum of £250,000.

The new function, available through Lombard’s website, allows customers to create a personalised quote across any one of 40 asset classes, with an instant decision provided at the end of a quick and simple application process.

Colt Technology Services today announced that it has upgraded its award-winning Colt IQ Network by deploying the most advanced optical technology.

This upgrade saw Colt deploy a combination of Ciena’s (NYSE: CIEN) market-leading WaveLogic Ai technology with a conversion to flexible grid photonics. This combination will deliver a significant uplift in the core network capacity, and pave the way for the launch of new product capabilities including higher bandwidth services.

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with online business account provider, Intergiro. Regulated in Sweden as an eMoney institution (EMI), Intergiro is now fully equipped to provide its international customers with access to easy-to-manage, online multi-currency payments.

Money20/20 USA today played host to the launch of the latest Banking Circle insight paper. ‘Pay, Set, Match! Payment services for SMEs – Jump-starting a virtuous digital payment circle’, uncovers the challenges and opportunities for payment providers serving SMEs.

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) solutions provider, today completed a proof of concept for an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning module within its existing TLM Cash and Liquidity Management solution for receipts and payments - essential for any business in terms of liquidity risk and regulatory reporting.

With the first implementations of EMVCo’s EMV SRC specification entering the ecosystem, now is the perfect time to ask ‘what is EMV SRC and how will it interact with tokenization?’, not least because the specification has been making waves since its publication in June 2019.

Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management sector, has been featured by Celent in the report “European Wealth Management Technology Vendors”.

This report examines the leading vendors of front-to-back office wealth management platforms available in EMEA, focusing on major trends, technology, functionalities, and client preferences.

US neobank Current has raised $20 million in a bid to grow its user base to one million personal checking accounts.

Barclays says it will no longer stop customers withdrawing cash from the UK's network of post offices, reversing its earlier position after accusations of "penny-pinching" by politicians.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group has joined forces with Fujitsu and the Japan Research Institute (JRI) to trial the use of AI to scan for bugs in coding and automatically recommend software repairs.