Mastercard’s Open Banking Connect service is now enabled for credit card holders of Lloyds Banking Group brands: Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank itself. The new functionality means cardholders can pay their credit card bills via their mobile app and draw on funds directly from a current account of their choice.

Primer, the UK-founded fintech backed by Accel and Balderton, today announces the launch of Primer Connect, an open app framework that enables third-party payments services to build integrations, or ‘connections’, on top of Primer’s unified checkout and payments APIs.

SIX is taking a majority stake via growth investment in Orenda Software Solutions (“Orenda”), a Canadian-based AI platform specializing in ESG and alternative data sets. This step is part of the strategy of SIX to help its customers drive more insights with data, providing consumption-ready data and analytics for faster and more informed decisions.

TrueLayer, the leading technology company building financial infrastructure that’s open to everyone, has announced that former SVP of Engineering at Checkout.com, Ben Foster, has joined the firm as its VP of Engineering.

Solactive today announces the launch of the Solactive Climate Change Europe BTI Index. Returns of the new index are available to investors through products exclusively offered by Barclays.

Ledgermatic, which recently announced it is developing treasury tools to allow enterprise and financial institutions to operate with digital assets and associated payments and workflows, has chosen Algorand as its blockchain protocol partner. Ledgermatic has also received funding from Borderless Capital, a venture capital firm focused on supporting and developing the Algorand ecosystem.

SunTec Business Solutions, the world’s #1 relationship-based pricing and billing software company today announced the constitution of its first Client Advisory Board (CAB), comprising senior banking, telecom and travel executives representing six continents.

The inaugural board has members from ABSA, Bancolombia, Comcast, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, DBS Bank, First National Bank, Global Business Travel, Goldman Sachs, Kotak Mahindra Bank, and Nordea Bank.

MACROBOND Financial [Macrobond], a leading provider of economic and financial data, announced today that it has appointed Howard Rees as Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately. He will oversee all global sales, customer activities; and strategic partnerships from the company’s London office. 

Enveil, the pioneering data security company protecting Data in Use, today announced the release of version 3.0 of its flagship ZeroReveal® product line. ZeroReveal® 3.0 is the most mature encrypted search, analytic, and machine learning solution on the market, delivering the company’s core homomorphic encryption-powered capabilities through an efficient and decentralized framework designed to reduce risk and address business challenges including data sharing, collaboration, monetization, and regulatory compliance.

Overbond’s fixed income artificial intelligence (AI) now offers protocol and system agnostic integration with venues and e-trading systems used by sell-side and buy-side trading desks thanks to a strategic alliance with electronic trading innovator, Rapid Addition.

The collaboration will help fixed income traders around the globe to harness the power of Overbond AI and automate up to 50% of RFQs.