• Investment: £2.1m seed funding round led by Finnish VC Lifeline Ventures
• Growth: Risk Ledger hits 300% year on year revenue growth as it secures contracts with NHS Test & Trace, wealth managers Quilter and others
• Opportunity: The global cybersecurity market is forecast to exceed $330 Bn by 2027, and Risk Ledger’s platform provides value for security teams within every B2B company globally.

 Square, the globally trusted software, payments, and hardware solution for businesses of all sizes, has today released new research that looks at the Future of Restaurants and the Future of Retail in the UK. 

Will Cop26 be the catalyst for financial institutions to apply digitisation strategies to back-office operations? 

 Pressure is mounting on financial organisations to quickly improve their efforts in the fight against climate change. A statement from the UN’s annual climate change conference (Cop26) says every company, financial firm and bank must change to meet climate goalsⁱ . It adds that every financial decision has to take the environment into account. 

The Finance Magnates London Summit is taking place 16-17 November 2021 at Old Billingsgate London, and it’s set to be the last big finance event of the year. The UK capital has been at the centre of global finance for centuries, boasting long-established trading exchanges and trusted banking and insurance institutions. In the digital era, it is now an emerging hub for fintech companies using technology to improve financial services.

Cryptography standard enables robust EMV® contact chip security long-term as payment technology evolves    

• 2021 has been the year where decentralised applications became mainstream for consumers with digital collectible (NFTs) and decentralised finance (DeFi)
• 25 million developers globally -- but more blockchain expertise needed
• New funding will enable Moralis to build the most robust and scalable platform for developers to build Web3 applications for the masses

Powered by Procentia’s software engine IntelliPen, BTPS has delivered a world-class self-service online member portal

LHV UK (‘LHV’ or the ’Company’), the financial and payment services provider for fintech companies, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Tuum, the leading modular core banking platform offering back-end systems which support transactional retail and business banking. 

  This partnership enables Tuum to offer a single API-based payments platform, which gives fintechs and financial institutions 24/7 access to instant payments, in both GBP and Euro, via the UK Faster Payments and SEPA Instant Schemes. 

• Zopa and Tesco Bank’s car finance product now available online at ClearScore marketplace
• Zopa’s Hire Purchase loan gives eligible consumers access to a pre-approved, guaranteed rate in as little as three minutes
• Partnership takes the guesswork out of buying a car and introduces more choice for millions of car buyers

Tesco Bank is partnering with digital bank Zopa to offer online car financing to millions of UK drivers.

 As part of the ongoing worldwide rollout of its innovation program to promote and enable the highest standards of corporate governance in local and global markets, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) today announced the live operational availability of its “golden copy” event sourcing and proxy vote execution service for custodians and local agents in Switzerland.