The move sees Atom offer far higher rates than those available from the traditional high street banks and is yet another example of Atom driving value back into the savings market.

Atom’s top rated app (rated 4.8/5 by Apple users and 4.9/5 by Android users) means that these rates are available in minutes to existing and new to bank customers.

Details of the new rates are:

The below rates go live at 00:01 on Wednesday 12^th January 2022:

6 month fixed saver: 0.75% (1^st)

1 year fixed saver: 1.35% (2^nd)

 F.INSTITUTE, a Dutch full-service finance company for Life Sciences, Clean and Deep Tech companies, has expanded its portfolio with the launch of three new products: the Incubator, Seed and Series packages. The company has also expanded its CFO Services to include Partnering and M&A Services, and Fundraising Services. These products emphasize F.INSTITUTE’s ambition to become the European one-stop market leader for financial services for start-ups and scale-ups. 

Collaboration provides pre-integrated data insights solution for banks to fight financial crime

Kharon, a leading provider of research and data analytics covering global security threats that impact commerce and finance, has joined Temenos Exchange, the open marketplace of fintech solutions for more than 3,000 banks and financial institutions worldwide. The integration of Kharon’s data and analytics solutions provides Temenos customers with access to rich data insights designed to power their financial crimes and trade compliance programs.

• The virtual reality market recorded its strongest year of private fundraising in the UK to date, driven by a surge of investment in Q4
• Virtual reality (VR) is the fastest-growing market segment, as revenues grew by 31.7 per cent and are projected to increase at the same rate over the next five years.

Private UK fundraising within the virtual reality sector recorded its strongest year to date – with over £150m worth of capital raised this year, a 72% increase on 2020.

• Avelacom will provide trading participants with one-stop-shop connectivity solutions through JPX’s arrownet-Global partnership

With more extensive data coverage, organizations can reliably verify over 5 million consumers in the Irish market

ION, a global provider of trading, clearing, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, today announces that one of its group companies, TradAir, has partnered with BlockQuake, a global regulatory-driven cryptocurrency and digital asset exchange, to improve seamless liquidity integration.

• Customer growth accelerated across all industries, led by fintech, retail/ecommerce, and travel segments
• Strong financial performance and significant company milestones were achieved; demand from global enterprises surged for its fraud prevention and account security platform

Temenos, the banking software company, has extended its strategic relationship with Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of enterprise open source solutions, by integrating Red Hat Process Automation Manager with Temenos Infinity cloud-native digital banking services.

Summary: Fed Chair Jerome Powell stated that the Federal Reserve should be able to raise interest rates without damaging the job market in hearings before the US Senate. The Dollar eased against its Rivals with the Canadian Loonie outperforming. Oil prices soared an average of 4% while Gold and Silver climbed above 1%. The Dollar Index (USD/DXY), which measures the value of the Greenback against a basket of 6 major currencies, settled 0.37% lower to 95.62 (95.89 yesterday). The US Dollar lost 0.66% against its Canadian counterpart (USD/CAD) to 1.2582 from 1.2662.