Financial IT: Hello Erez, first of all thanks for this interview. Could you please tell us more about GoCardless and what is your role in it?

Yolt, a new money platform backed by ING, one of the leading banks in Europe, has launched its open beta today for iOS and Android, offering users across the UK access to a new way of managing their money smartly and intuitively. The app has been tested and improved in closed beta since October last year, and is now ready to invite more people to the platform. Yolt brings the UK market one step closer to Open Banking.

Deloitte, the business advisory firm, today announces the acquisition of Market Gravity, the proposition design consultancy.*

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in London with teams in New York, Edinburgh and Toronto, Market Gravity helps the world’s leading brands across multiple sectors including financial services, retail, energy, telecoms and automotive to create and launch innovative products and services. 

Numerix, the leader in risk technology today is proud to announce it’s been recognized with two prestigious honors in this year’s Global Capital Americas Derivatives awards. Jim Jockle, CMO of Numerix accepted the awards for Analytics Ve

Starting a small business is tough. Establishing and maintaining that business is tougher. The government’s G-Cloud framework is one more tool to assist SMEs in gaining a foothold against the competition by connecting SMEs directly with anyone the public sector looking for cloud service providers.

Flywire, a leading provider of international payment solutions, today announced that it has acquired PACE Invoice, a multi-currency invoicing platform provider based in London. With the acquisition, Flywire adds international invoicing to its cross-border payments and receivables services, enabling its business, education and healthcare clients to more easily link invoices to cross-border receivables, saving time and costs in invoice preparation and payment reconciliation. 

Intellect Design Arena Ltd, a digital technology product provider across Banking and Insurance, announced the successful rollout of Intellect’s Quantum Collateral Management Solution at Sveriges Riksbank, the oldest Central Bank in the World. 

Since announcing the new Business Intelligence FX Performance Insights tool at Sibos 2016, SWIFT has extended the offering beyond G16 broker-dealers to now provide this service to the wider financial community.

FinTech Hive at DIFC, the region’s first FinTech accelerator launched by Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) earlier this year, has received over 100 applications from more than 32 countries for its inaugural programme. 

An interview with Madhur Jain of SunTec Business Solutions