Chip, the digital savings account, has raised a total of £11.5 million from 12,954 investors, making it the biggest equity crowdfund of the year as well as the biggest equity crowdfund held on Crowdcube of all time.

As part of the record-breaking round, Chip raised £1 million in under 10 minutes and hit £8.6+ million in under 48 hours. Off the back of the crowdfund, the company added 6,500 new investors, growing its shareholder community to over 23,000 and making it the second biggest investor community in the UK’s fintech and as well as one of Europe’s largest.

Industry’s first solution to marry intercompany with global vendor invoice management to centralize and automate invoice receipt, validation, audit, approval, payment, and disputes

With a $5.5B valuation, Deel cements its position as the highest valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space

Deel, the remote hiring company shattering job barriers worldwide, announced today that it has raised $425 million in Series D funding, taking the total amount raised by the company to over $630 million. The latest funding round values the company at $5.5 billion. Deel has become the highest valued company in the global hiring, payments, and compliance space with this investment.

FinTech driven specialized lender to repurchase up to 2 million outstanding common shares

New Partner hire signals major investment in region’s booming finance sector.

PKF, one of the UK’s largest and most successful accountancy brands, has today announced ambitious plans to grow its Northern office with the creation of a new Financial Services team. Spearheaded by new Financial Services Partner, Martin Watson, PKF’s expansion will create up to 50 new jobs in Leeds over the next three years.

Financial services hub

Petroleum Service Corporation (PSC), the North American leader in product handling, site logistics and sustainability services for the petrochemical and refining industries, has selected corporate performance management (CPM) vendor OneStream Software to streamline and unify the company’s fi

The joint project of Rosbank, part of the Societe General Group, and Diasoft has been named finalist of the global Banking Tech Awards 2021 in the category “Best Use of IT for Lending”. The large-scale IT transformation project “Core Engine for Loans and Deposits” (CELD) based on Diasoft’s digital solutions allowed the bank to fully move its corporate lending business processes into the digital environment.

Former Microsoft, VMware executive, and pioneer of cloud computing, will focus on strengthening Acronis’ position as a leading vendor of cyber protection products and services to service providers.

Lightspin, the provider of the next-generation cloud security platform, announced today that it won the 2021 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation. 

Bolero International, the leading provider of cloud-based trade finance digitisation solutions, announce the relocation of company co-founder Paul Mallon to Singapore in a strategic move.

Paul Mallon will take up the role of COO Asia-Pacific and will be leading Bolero’s ambitious global growth strategy as trade finance digitisation thrives in the region. This move will provide increased engagement with Bolero’s clients, partners and other stakeholders in the region.