Tinkoff Group Holding, Russia's leading provider of online financial and lifestyle services via its Tinkoff ecosystem, today announces its consolidated financial results for the three months and twelve months ended 31 December 2020.

Mollie, one of the fastest-growing payment service providers in Europe, has published research unveiling the state of payments in retail today as well as the challenges and opportunities in the retail market following a turbulent year.

 Tradeteq, the technology provider for bank asset distribution, has announced the appointment of James Baxter as the company’s Head of Structuring. The news follows Tradeteq’s recently completed Series A funding round and is part of the company’s investment into expanding the team and its products.  

equensWorldline, a subsidiary of Worldline (Euronext: WLN),  the European leader in the payments and transactional services industry and #4 player  worldwide, and comdirect, a Commerzbank AG brand, have extended their existing service agreement: equensWorldline will process the bank’s new Visa debit card via its API based  WL Extended Issuing service. Within that agreement the existing debit cards are switched over to the new product. The contract has been signed for an initial period until 2025. 

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, today announced that Crédit du Maroc, a subsidiary of Crédit Agricole, has selected Temenos to digitally transform its core banking and payments infrastructure. The core transformation project with Temenos will prepare Crédit du Maroc for the future, to deliver improved, frictionless and innovative omnichannel experience for its retail and business customers and grow sustainably. 

Canoe Intelligence (“Canoe”), a financial technology company focused on reimagining data management processes for alternative investors, wealth managers, asset servicing firms and capital allocators, today announced it has expanded its EMEA presence with new clients, a new London office and the hire of Toby Bailey as Vice President of Sales, EMEA. 

Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has launched paper trading for the Honey Framework, enabling users to test drive automated trading strategies in a simulated environment without putting real funds at risk.

Bitfinex’s launch of paper trading on the Honey Framework serves to further democratise access to sophisticated algorithmic trading tools and data that has historically been the exclusive preserve of traders at investment funds.

Exabel, the simple-to-use Al, analytics and data platform for investment teams, announced it has closed a fourth seed investment round from investor AWC (formerly AwilhelmsenCapital Holdings), bringing its total capital raised to over $21M. The company also announced today the launch of the new "Exabel Insights Platform" product for alternative datavendors.

Digiterre, a software and data engineering consultancy, today announced that it has partnered with Juniper Place, an investor intelligence, advisory and placement services provider, to build Juniper Place’s new intelligence platform for alternative asset raising.

Vacuumlabs, the global provider of full-stack fintech solutions, today announced a global partnership with Thought Machine, the cloud native core b