Icon Solutions today announces it has strengthened and expanded its strategic partnership with NatWest with the appointment of Ian Povey, CIO Payments Technology, and Lee McNabb, Head of Payments Strategy and Partnerships, as Board Observers.

AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking and Economics (CIBE) top management visited the heart of Francophone markets Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Guinea. The key objective of the visit was to analyze, evaluate and understanding about financial markets, adoptability and scope for Islamic Finance Industry.

While rapid advances in technology are continuing to drive business transformation agendas, less than a third (29%) of senior leaders consider their technology foundation readiness to be very high, according to a new survey from KPMG International.

Yuno, the leading global payments orchestration platform, today announces a strategic partnership with Openpay, BBVA Group’s digital payments company, making it easier for companies of all sizes to conduct online transactions seamlessly and benefit from the country’s e-commerce boom. 

Capital.com, the high-growth retail trading platform whose client trading volumes surpassed $1trillion in 2023, has announced it will remove overnight funding for non-leveraged (1:1 leverage) CFD trades on shares and cryptocurrencies (crypto trading is not available to retail clients in the UK). The decision to do away with overnight adjustments for key markets underpins Capital.com’s commitment to help traders reduce their cost as they explore longer-term, investment-style strategies.

Pyypl (pronounced “People”) – a pioneering fintech company in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is proud to announce its achievement of the latest PCI-DSS V4.0 Certification.

Ethos, a financial services company dedicated to ethically minded consumers in the UK, has partnered with Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company, to launch a Shariah-compliant digital service.

Rent2Cash, the first Italian startup that brings the “rental advance” service to Italy and advances up to 3 years of rent to property owners, closes a pre-seed round of 3 million euros. At the same time, it officially started operations in Italy with the purchase of the first rental contracts that will be financed through the innovative securitization of the contracts themselves, carried out with the support of Banca Finint.

Portend launches WhatsApp integration providing accessible real-time due diligence for portfolio safeguarding with quick and easy access to simulated governance, financial auditing, communication sentiment, and financial monitoring tools in Venture, Debt, Insurance, and Sports.

You might assume that with $100M’s AUM VC Investment Directors would monitor the finances of their portfolio businesses. Oddly, they don’t. 

Natural Capital Research Limited (Natcap) announced today it has secured $10 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round to scale its pioneering nature tech product. This funding will help accelerate Natcap’s rapid growth supporting organisations to understand their nature-related risks and opportunities.