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How to Harness Technology to Avoid Failure in Business

4 years 4 months ago
IT Innovations, Risk Management

Picture Source: Pixabay Creating a business is tough but maintaining a business and making it successful is even tougher. According to Business 4 Beginners, at least one in five (20%) start-ups fail within their first year. By year three, more than 60% of new businesses have failed. That doesn’t mean you’ll fail. What it does mean, however, is that success can be hard to come by and that surviving, based on the statistics, is tough.

Satchel.eu and Plastics for Change Partner to Reduce Plastic Footprint

4 years 4 months ago
Payments

Satchel.eu announces the launch of a partnership with the Plastics for Change initiative to prevent plastic pollution and support social change.

Marie Luchet Joins ACA Group to head up ESG Advisory for Europe

4 years 4 months ago
People Moves

ACA Group (ACA), the leading governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisor in financial services, announced that Marie Luchet has joined the firm as Managing Director of ESG, heading up the practice’s strategy and vision for Europe.

Tillful Announces Partnership With Experian to Help Small Businesses Get the Credit They Deserve

4 years 4 months ago
Banking

Small business credit platform Tillful, backed by ING Ventures, Experian Ventures, Bitrock Capital, and Katalyst Ventures, announced today that it's partnering with Experian® to help establish credit profiles for businesses that are new to credit or otherwise credit invisible and thereby potentially expand the range of credit options that can be made available to them.

AutoRek Appoints New CTO Andrew Elmore

4 years 4 months ago
People Moves

Andrew Elmore has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer at AutoRek. Elmore comes with significant experience as CTO of PagoFX and in C24 Technologies during its sale to Gresham in 2016. He has extensive financial services knowledge gained from previous roles including Head of Technical Architecture at PagoNxt, VP Engineering at Velo Payments and heading up development at SmartStream.

Impel Launches Next-Gen Alternative to SWIFT, SEPA on the XDC Network

4 years 4 months ago
Blockchain

Impel and the XDC Network (XinFin) today announced the official launch of Impel, an alternative solutions platform for quickly and securely sending ISO 20022-compliant financial messages. It includes the option to add $XDC as collateral for instant settlement and a bridge to the R3 Corda platform for future-facing banks and fintechs.

Bybit Launches Grid Trading Bot

4 years 4 months ago
Cryptocurrencies

Bybit, one of the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced the launch of its grid trading bot. Bybit’s new grid trading functionalities will be available to all registered users on June 20. Bybit users will be able to utilize the grid trading bot to automate their buy and sell orders and adjust their investment amount.

ION Launches FI EMS to Simplify Fixed Income Trading

4 years 4 months ago
Trading Systems

ION, a global leader in trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management announces the launch of a new product for both buy and sell-side fixed income traders. ION’s new FI EMS will ease challenges around selecting counterparties and sourcing liquidity by digitalizing the entire dealer-to-customer (D2C) trading process.

Finastra and ITC Infotech Extend European Partnership to Deliver Treasury Automation in the Cloud

4 years 4 months ago
Cloud

Finastra today announced a strategic partnership with ITC Infotech to deliver Finastra’s Fusion Kondor cloud-based Treasury as a Service solution to its growing customer base in Europe. Customers will benefit from increased automation of treasury services, an evergreen system that keeps pace with regulatory change, and rapid time to go live for new features and functionalities.

Alternative Lending Dominates in Asia but Bank Loans Hold Strong in Malaysia and India

4 years 4 months ago
Lending

Robocash Group revealed that the lending from traditional banks is being replaced by the non-bank options with the fastest-growing rates in the Philippines and Singapore. The total opposites are Malaysia and India, where the banking sector is currently experiencing more rapid growth.

Sella Launches the First Italian Acceleration Program Dedicated to Startups Focused on Finance in the Metaverse

4 years 4 months ago
Banking

Metaverse 4 Finance Accelerator has started. Representing the first Italian acceleration program - fostered by the Sella group and implemented by dpixel, its Venture Incubator, in partnership with OGR Torino – it aims to identify and support the growth of national and international startups for the development of innovative, economically sustainable, inclusive and safe solutions and technologies within the financial applied Metaverse.

Zumo Appoints Digital Visionary Clark Povey as Operations Director

4 years 4 months ago
People Moves

Zumo, the Edinburgh-based crypto wallet and payments platform, has appointed Clark Povey as its new Operations Director to shape the moments that matter in people's crypto experience. Clark has over 20 years of experience leading global operations at financial services and technology companies. He will oversee Zumo’s operations and customer service strategy, and implement digital-first solutions to help the company to scale and expand...

Interswitch and Compass Plus Technologies Partner to Ease Payments Across Africa

4 years 4 months ago
Payments

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, have announced a partnership to further strengthen Interswitch’s payment card processing capacity in Africa.