• Dee Janssens, previously at Netflix and Uber, joins Juni as Vice President of People 

• The news comes as Juni was listed as Europe’s fastest-growing fintech startup in 2021, with a 644% team growth and employees spread across over 30+ countries

• Turkey’s largest fintech Papara partners with BlindLook, the organisation developing freedom technologies for the blind, to make all financial services audio-enabled and fully accessible for the visually impaired 
• The co-operation enables the blind to independently manage their finances, making it a key milestone in driving Papara’s mission of financial inclusion and freedom for all

Nucleus Commercial Finance, the fintech revolutionising how UK SMEs access finance, today announces the appointment of Gurinder Mandir as Business Development Manager for the Midlands as it looks to extend its support to businesses across the UK.

• Built in partnership with SBM Bank India and Visa, the LazyCard boasts the largest pre-approval base    of 62 million consumers

• LazyCard will enable thin-file borrowers to build their credit worthiness with its ‘booster’ feature

• -Strategically designed reward structure of LazyCard drives value for money with every transaction

Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) investment manager Deepbridge Capital has today (11 January 2022) announced that it has now deployed over £100m of capital via the Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS fund.

The Deepbridge Technology Growth EIS was launched in 2013 as one of the first growth-focused technology EIS funds, providing private investors with access to a portfolio of early-stage investee companies across various intellectual-property-rich sectors, including energy and resource innovation, hardware technologies and IT-based developments.

● Louise Chan joins Ebury’s leadership team from HSBC where she was the Global  Head of Innovation, Delivery and Capability Development 

● Louise takes on an expanded Chief Operating Officer role covering Operations as  well as Product, Data and Regulatory Reporting 

● Following appointment of the new CTO, the global rollout of Ebury’s transaction  services is accelerating 

-          Around 1446 hours annually wasted per SME on mundane, repetitive tasks and manual errors

-          66% SMEs want easier access to capital and faster means for loan approvals and verification 

 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.

 Dr Saurabh Garg, CEO, UIDAI, today said that over five crore Aadhaar authentication is taking place per day and over 40 crore last-mile banking transactions are being done every month through Aadhaar-enabled Payment System (AePS).