Leading UK anti-money laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch expanded its senior team with three new appointments in November. The recruitment reflects the continuing growth of the Ilkley-based business which has also broken into new international markets this year.

The roles of vice president of customer success, head of sales and enterprise development manager have been created in response to the increasing demand for the award-winning solution.

Path Solutions has been named winner of the ‘Best Islamic Banking Implementation’ category following its successful implementation of iMAL at Al Baraka Banking Group in the IBSI Global FinTech Innovation Awards 2020.

Copenhagen-based startup Dreamdata has today announced it has closed a $4.4M investment round to help B2B companies drive growth by better connecting their marketing and growth activities with revenue generation.

B2Bs operate in an incredibly complex world. There are numerous stakeholders involved in decision making, while negotiations are spread out over months or even years. This means there is little transparency into which commercial activity impacted the process and which were least efficient.

Propel, one of the UK’s largest independent finance houses, has launched Propeller, a revolutionary new online asset finance portal developed to power vendors’ sales and redefine the customer finance journey.

SEON, the fraud fighters, today announces it has partnered with leading UK RegTech platform, TruNarrative, allowing TruNarrative users to leverage SEON’s extensive data to make informed onboarding decisions. It will also provide customers a solution for making safe commerce simple, combining SEON’s data with TruNarrative’s decisioning technology.

Identitii Limited (Identitii, Company) (ASX:ID8) is pleased to announce that it has been granted patent approval in the United States. The newly granted approval covers Identitii’s global ecosystem for secure sharing of financial transaction information and is a key part of its Intellectual Property (IP) protection strategy.

Cedar Oxygen, a Luxembourg domiciled, impact investment trade finance platform, has announced that it has arranged its first finance facility to Lebanese Roasting Group Sal (‘Castania’), a leading Lebanese player in the nuts and snacks sector. The finance will support the import of needed raw materials and is the first in a series of major deployments which are hoped will breathe long-term life into the Lebanese economy.

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Intuit QuickBooks, the UK’s leading financial management platform, announces new features in its recently launched Self Assessment tool, arming small businesses (SMBs) with an efficient and stress-free way of helping to prepare their tax return in advance of the upcoming January deadline.

Other updates in the QuickBooks Winter Product Release include a special offer with ‘GoCardless’, and updated VAT codes ahead of changes to import tax in 2021.