·        Some 77% of businesses are worried about losing customers following the implementation of the new FCA regulations 

·        Yet nearly three quarters (74%) of businesses admitted that in spite of this, they plan to increase premiums  

·        More than one in five insurers (24%) plan to increase premiums by 61-70%, adding £260-£300 to the UK’s average comprehensive car insurance¹ 

Railsbank, the leading global Embedded Finance Experiences platform, has launched a new white label Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) credit solution that enables retailers to offer their own branded, fully-integrated BNPL payment experiences. 

Today the Swiss fintech startup keycount announces its partnership with the European open banking leader, Aiia - a Mastercard company.

With access to the capabilities of open banking keycount is set to bring its users a one-stop-shop of liquidity management - a platform set to be launched in the German market during 2022.

• Strengthens management team to bolster growth and M&A
• Wealth of international experience as finance expert
• Dynamic, innovative approach to CFO role

SERgroup Holding International GmbH has appointed Holger Kliebe as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Member of the Management Board. SER is a leading software vendor of enterprise content management solutions for intelligent information management.

KNEIP, a leader in fund data management and reporting solutions for the asset management industry, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Dataglide, a UK-based technology company specialised in data transformation and cloud-based automation.

Buy Now, Pay Later player Anyday has partnered with open banking platform Nordigen to provide accurate and healthy credit offerings. Using Nordigen’s premium lending categorisation tool, Anyday will be able to perform detailed credit checks, approving their customers in seconds. 

Anyday is a Denmark-based, financing solution that prioritises users’ experience, by removing interest rates and additional fees typically associated with BNPLs. Instead they work with countless merchants who take on additional fees on their sides, to benefit the users. 

The Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS), in close collaboration with Worldline and the local commercial banks, has implemented the basic infrastructure for Instant Payments (IP). As a result as of 15 January 2022, all interbank payments in and between Curaçao and Sint Maarten and in Bonaire will now be processed within ten seconds, 24 hours a day and 365 days per year. With the exception of two local commercial banks, which will join later in 2022, all banks in Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Bonaire are participating in the IP CSM.

OKLink, the well-known blockchain big-data company, has announced the launch of Chaintelligence Pro 2.0, the world's first blockchain analysis platform combining blockchain big-data technology and technical investigation methods, to assist police in cryptocurrency-related crime investigation and anti-money laundering.