EUR Extends Slide, USD/JPY Hits 5-Year High; Stocks Tumble

People are only now waking up to the Food Threat.

Oil game may be over for the moment.

Military strikes within 10km of Polish border likely to overwhelm modest peace talks as the day progresses.

• Nearly two thirds (62%) of consumers would avoid merchants with a poor payment experience and 22% would avoid them even if they needed to use them.
• Less than a tenth (6%) of UK adults would continue to shop as normal with a company if they experienced a poor payment experience with them.
• Such a commercial risk for businesses makes investment in checkout technology critical, and will drive e-commerce investment trends

Encompass’ £25 million capital raise will be used to automate KYC for banks on an international scale

Encompass Corporation, the provider of intelligently automated Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, today announced the completion of a successful capital raise of £25M.

Perennial Partners, a major Australian investment management company, served as the lead investor, joined by financial services focused principal investing firm Serendipity Capital, Seven Seat Capital, and FinTech investment firm Microequities Asset Management.

 CQG, a leading global provider of high-performance technology solutions for traders, brokers, commercial hedgers and exchanges, announced today the phased roll-out of its newest trading platform, CQG One.

 Bybit is pleased to be recognized as the Best Cryptocurrency Market Exchange at the Cryptocurrency World Expo 2022. Industry leaders and rising stars in the blockchain and cryptocurrency community gathered at the two-day event in Warsaw, Poland from 9 to 10 March, 2022.

●      Estateguru Marketplace Limited opens its UK office in Manchester

●      Estateguru Group is an international property investing and financing platform, which has funded over €500m in loans to over 3,000 business plans and projects across Continental Europe

●      Estateguru operates in eight other markets across Europe including Finland, Spain, Portugal, Estonia and Germany

“Following delays due to the pandemic, we have finally reached the deadline for implementation of Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) for e-commerce transactions.

This regulation is fundamentally transforming how merchants and banks conduct payments. With levels of online fraud increasing over the course of the pandemic, adding extra layers of security to protect businesses and consumers, can only be welcomed.

After growing 10x in 2021, Atlan plans to leverage this financing to accelerate product development and invest in go-to-market.

Atlan announced that it has closed its $50M Series B round led by Insight Partners, Salesforce Ventures, and Sequoia Capital India. Several founders in the data space participated in the round including Fivetran founder Taylor Brown and ThoughtSpot founder Ajeet Singh.

The payments provider is seeking to connect with charities and aid organisations seeking to deliver funds to those affected