Leading international payments platform Currencycloud has today announced the appointment of Anthemis partner and payments expert Samantha Ghiotti as a new board member, to underpin Currencycloud’s ambitious international growth plans.

Leading peer-to-peer business lender, Assetz Capital, has launched a new promotion which rewards its investors with a 1% or 2% cashback bonus on newly lent funds.

To benefit from the cashback offer investors simply need to invest new cash and leave it on the platform until 17^th December 2018 – resulting in a 1% cash back on those funds – and if they leave those funds invested until 17^th June 2019 they will receive an additional 1% cash back. Payment of the bonuses will be made on 20^th December and 20^th June, respectively.

The official collaboration between Projective and B-Hive has been launched at the festive opening of banking services provider Projective’s new offices. Projective, which already has a significant international footprint and offices in Frankfurt, Amsterdam, London, and Paris, will become B-Hive’s associate partner and assist them in expanding their fintech innovation platform at an international level.

Belgium is at the cutting edge of international fintech innovation

Mambu, the SaaS banking engine powering modern digital financial services, today announced the launch of Mambu Process Orchestrator (MPO). An Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) built around the core engine, MPO enables clients to rapidly and intuitively compose, run and monitor API-driven and cloud-based processes.

To mark the start of British Savings Week, new research from MoneySuperMarket, the UK’s leading comparison site, today maps the nation’s attitudes towards saving money and uncovers the regional saving hotspots.

Compass Plus, an international provider of electronic payments and retail banking software to processors and financial institutions, has announced the global expansion of its processing business with its fully compliant, Mastercard and Visa certified UK-based processing centre.

Pini Yakuel, CEO of Optimove, discusses the importance of traditional banks embracing personalised customer marketing strategies to ensure they remain competitive.

NatWest and G4S are working together to pilot the UK’s first intelligent cash management solution for businesses later this year. This innovative and secure cash solution enables businesses to benefit from automated account crediting of its cash transactions without having to deposit that day’s takings in their local branch.

The Western Union Company (NYSE: WU), a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement, and Techstars, a worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, have come together to spur the next generation of disruption in the fintech sector with a focus on payments and seamless global money transfer. Over the next three years, Western Union will work with Techstars to run a mentorship-driven accelerator program and provide seed funding for startups out of its new Denver-based headquarters.