NORTH West headquartered Quint Group, a leading international, highly innovative fintech group operating in the consumer finance market, has secured a £16.5m financing deal from Natwest Bank.

Founded in 2009, Quint is one of the fastest growing fintech businesses in Europe, with operations in the UK, US, Australia, Poland, China and South Africa. 

Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI), a leading provider of consulting services and system solutions, announced today the company’s I-STAR/CORE has been updated for international Financial Stability Board (FSB)’s Standards and Processes for Global Securities Financing Data Collection and Aggregation. The system updates have been completed and NRI began offering the service on January 4^th, 2019.

Since August 2018, the FCA has required banks to supply information about current account services to help consumers and small businesses make comparisons. This month, for the first time the data included the number of IT-related shutdowns, over the previous nine months. 

TradingScreen Inc. (TS), the all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), today announced the global launch of 

OC&C Strategy Consultants has surveyed 400 C-suite executives and thought leaders across the US and UK, including 80 deep-dive interviews to better understand how AI is shaping business.

Key findings

Blueliv, a leading enterprise-class cyberthreat intelligence company, today launched its 2018-2019 Annual Cyberthreat Landscape Report providing insights into emerging and evolving cybersecurity trends. The report reveals that botnet stolen credentials increased by a staggering fifty percent in 2017-2018, with technology and telco sectors being the target for over half of th

Innovate Finance, the independent industry body for UK FinTech, today launches its FinTech for Schools Initiative, with the aim of inspiring the next generation of FinTech leaders and raising young people’s ambitions for innovation in financial services. 

FinTech for Schools is an important piece of Innovate Finance’s Skills and Talent work, which aims to support a future domestic pipeline of talent as well as showcasing the various skills initiatives of its members in one, easily accessible place. 

The world’s first BORDERLESS Marketplace is opening and it is cannot be stopped. The product of thousands of hours of work by a dedicated team and community, Block Collider is releasing the world’s first unstoppable, honestly decentralized exchange. The momentum of this event will resound through the cryptocurrency space first but make its way to broader markets as people realize there are options to centralization.

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with Canadian financial institution, Wirexend.

Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today announced the next release of its low-code platform, making it easier than ever to build powerful enterprise applications up to 20x faster. The new version accelerates development and expands low-code/no-code platform capabilities in a number of key areas, including integration, robotic process automation (RPA), interface design, enterprise mobility, and customer engagement.