A survey of leading global banks by Icon Solutions has revealed that Request to Pay is widely expected to challenge established payment methods, with 87% of respondents viewing it as a good alternative to direct debits and 71% expecting it will reduce merchant’s dependency on payment cards.

Business-to-business open banking payments provider Crezco has appointed Ivelina Delcheva as its first Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer. 

A finance expert with extensive fintech experience, Delcheva will lead the London-based startup’s growth agenda. 

SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has announced a record year of growth. Revenues increased 88 percent year-on-year in 2021 and the company now has over 120 institutional clients worldwide, with new clients including Oppenheimer Europe Ltd and JonesTrading.

Putting customer experience and flexibility first for ENTRIS BANKING customers

Bottomline, a leading provider of financial technology that makes complex business payments and financial messaging simple, smart and secure, today announced that ENTRIS BANKING AG, a new Swiss customer, has selected Bottomline’s SaaS-based payment connectivity platform to provide customers with an enhanced, more flexible domestic and international payment experience.

• SERIX for FTSE 100 reaches record bearish territory of 87
• British pound also loses investor confidence
• Retail investor sentiment positive on IBEX, MIB and NASDAQ

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) is delighted to announce the re-launch of its National Advisory Council (NAC) for Switzerland.

The new CISI Switzerland NAC President is Paul Heber FCSI (left), Director & Member Investment Committee at Valère Consulting SA.  The CISI NAC Committee members are:

Asma Ali, Director of Marketing and Administration at Altaira Wealth Management

Formerly OKEx, OKX’s new brand highlights the platform’s robust suite of crypto, NFT and DeFi investing products

Console Connect, an easy-to-use platform for the Software Defined Interconnection® of applications and infrastructures, and Colt Technology Services, a leading provider of agile, high bandwidth connectivity solutions, have today completed the first stage of major API-led interoperability between their global on-demand SDN platforms.

Specialist lender Cambridge & Counties Bank has selected nCino, a pioneer in cloud banking and digital transformation solutions for the global financial services industry, to further transform the bank’s back-office lending infrastructure. The partnership will deliver an enhanced customer-centric market proposition as the bank looks to capitalise on the strong momentum and reputation it has in the UK real estate market.

A decentralized ecosystem surrounding blockchain technology is needed for full-solutions operations. The blockchain represents a decentralized transaction ledger that forms a part of a larger computing infrastructure, which must consist of several other functions, including communication, storage, archiving, and file serving. Storj represents one of the projects that are developing solutions for the distributed blockchain ecosystem, as well as IPFS for file serving, storage, and link maintenance.