More than 80% of small business owners admit to being ‘scared’ by big contract wins due to fears over affordability and resourcing, a Censuswide poll commissioned by Monspire has found.

The study highlights a confidence problem among the UK’s small business community, with cashflow ranking as the number one concern for company bosses, followed by finding new business, keeping new business and funding.

Starling Bank today launches the first-ever Fantasy Football game for the UEFA Women’s EURO ahead of the official tournament kick-off on Wednesday 6th July. 

London-based insurtech Superscript announces its expansion to the Netherlands today, in the latest development towards its goal of becoming a global leader in SME insurance.

Moolahgo, a leading Asian Fintech, and Checkout.com, a global payments provider have partnered to offer payment to Visa accounts in a move that would allow Moolahgo users to make convenient and fast cross-border money transfers to over 3 Billion Visa cards globally. 
 

International students at the University of Toronto can now make purchases in campus bookstores with greater ease by paying in foreign currency.

The University of Toronto (UofT) Bookstore and leading payment service provider OTT Pay, today, announced the launch of online payment options for students to pay in Chinese yuan, broadening a partnership to streamline campus shopping.

CanDeal Group (“CanDeal”), a leading operator of Canadian market and infrastructure services, has partnered with five of Canada’s largest domestic banks to deliver a comprehensive, centralized Know Your Client (“KYC”) solution to the Capital Markets Industry. The landmark collaboration mutualizes many of the costs and efforts of complying with KYC requirements and The Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (“PCMLTFA”) and delivers unparalleled operational efficiencies.

ZEN.COM, an innovative European fintech, has been awarded the Digital First certificate by Mastercard. The key benefit that ZEN.COM will provide to individual customers through its certification is a higher level of card security. This is another step in the company's global strategy to deliver the most secure and fully mobile financial services.

Accounting firms are missing a key opportunity to adopt Open Banking to help meet the needs of small businesses facing a cash flow squeeze, according to a report by iwoca, one of Europe’s largest small business lenders, and AccountingWeb.

Embedded finance startup Monite has appointed Alex Akimov as Head of API, formerly also Head of API of Adyen, in the latest move in its platform scaling strategy.

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a pioneer in cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry, today announced that Chris Ainsworth has joined the Company as its first Chief People Officer, serving as a member of the nCino Executive Leadership Team.