Impact First fund seeks up to £5M following successful market entry -

Scotland’s leading impact investor, SIS Ventures, is launching a second round of fundraising with the aim of attracting up to £5 million to scale up its support for Scotland’s high impact potential early-stage businesses.

Sokin, the next generation payments provider, has partnered with Visa as the London-based fintech prepares to roll-out its inclusive Global Currency Account and debit cards across Asia Pacific.

Metaverse Bubble begins to collapse.

There are a lot of tech stocks already down 30%, but Facebook/Meta just joined them in one day.

Everyone and their dog was buying the Meta story with a keen 'buy the dip' approach. This created a tremendous stop loss snow-balling affair all the way down.

This is classic market behaviour.

CoinSwitch, the largest Crypto investing app in India, announced a limited waitlist opening for a recurring buy plan for Crypto.

Crypto investing app CoinSwitch has launched recurring buy plan (RBP), a systematic way to buy Crypto assets in India, as part of its mission to make money equal for all. With this launch, the Crypto unicorn aims to enable users to beat market volatility and avoid making impulsive buying or selling decisions. Users can now sign up through a waitlist to get early access to explore this new feature.

Freemium open banking platform, 

Mphasis (BSE: 526299; NSE: MPHASIS), an information technology (IT) solutions provider specializing in cloud and 

Pluto announces joint venture to form new gaming blockchain and metaverse studio

Pires Investments plc (AIM: PIRI), the investment company focused on next generation technology, is pleased to provide an update on its investment in Pluto Digital plc ("Pluto"), a technology company operating in the exciting digital assets sector. 

AlHuda CIBE and Tawhid Bank signed an agreement to set up first Shariah Based Insurance (Takaful) company in Tajikistan

AlHuda CIBE UAE and Tawhid Bank Tajikistan signed an agreement to set-up the first Takaful Company in Tajikistan. It is the first Shariah legitimate solution to Tajikistan's insurance industry. The MoU signing ceremony was held Dubai - UAE.

• SuperSeed is a London based seed-stage venture capital firm investing in startups focusing on business and industrial automation. The firm has now completed the first closing at £31m of its Fund II, which will target a final close of £50m.
• Started in 2018 by Partners Dan Bowyer and Mads Jensen, both ex-founders with multiple exits, who passionately believe that venture capital investors need to better support early stage entrepreneurs.

SME retailers currently spend £22k on average a month on transaction fees
Open Banking technology could reduce these fees by 90%, according to new research from Yolt
Other innovations for UK retailers include instant refunds and fraud reduction