RepRisk, a leading ESG data science firm combining machine learning with human intelligence to identify and assess ESG risks, and Apex Group Ltd. (“Apex”), a global financial services provider, have entered into a strategic partnership to expand access to material ESG risk data for private markets participants. 

VERMEG, the leading banking and insurance software solutions provider, has today launched Colline.Cloud, a highly cost-efficient end-to-end collateral management service, aimed at smaller buy and sell-side firms.

The launch comes as the global regulations for uncleared derivatives (UMR) moves to phases five and six.

The group has published the results for January-September 2020. Despite the challenging time, it has improved its portfolio quality and all the performance indicators, by optimizing the core business processes.

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today introduced new capabilities for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Red Hat OpenShift intended to help enterprises bring edge computing into hybrid cloud deployments.

Proptech Goodlord has partnered with challenger credit reference agency and Open Banking provider, Credit Kudos, to improve the rental process for agents, landlords and tenants by allowing more accurate assessments of a tenant’s financial situation.

The partnership enables Goodlord’s letting agent customers to build a more accurate picture of an individual’s personal finances, such as income and expenditure, to give a clear indication of their overall creditworthiness, using Open Banking.  

96% of businesses have had outstanding payments for 10+ days over the last year, according to a new Forrester Consulting study commissioned by GoCardless, a leading fintech for recurring payments.

Juvo, a pioneer of financial identities for the underbanked, today announced a new partnership with Mastercard. Juvo was accepted into Mastercard’s global fintech startup engagement program, Start Path, last August. Now, Juvo is collaborating with Mastercard’s Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) team to introduce its FiDaaS (Financial Identity as a Service) platform to hundreds of financial institutions across the region.

Revolut announced today the introduction of Open Banking for its users in Germany. With the new feature, German customers can now connect their accounts at Comdirect, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, ING-DiBa and Sparkasse with the Revolut App and view all their finances in one place - directly from their smartphones.

ConsenSys has acquired the team and technology of Truffle. Among the most widely used blockchain developer tools, the Truffle Suite is a development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline all rolled into one. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Over the last decade, the payments industry has changed significantly. Today, financial institutions require their system to be flexible and offer them the ability to bring products and services to the market quickly to be able to compete in the market. However, many continue to operate on card-based platforms that are entering their fourth decade, instead of moving to moving to modern, third generation payments platforms which were built to provide FIs with the means to launch ground-breaking products and solutions suitable for the market today, and in the years to come.