NatWest announces new partnership to boost SME lending
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
NatWest has today launched a new partnership with Soldo, a pre-paid company card provider for small businesses, which will allow two of the bank’s ventures, Esme Loans and Rapid Cash, to be offered directly to Soldo’s customers, as the bank aims to increase lending to UK SMEs throughout 2020.
World’s first AI-powered company deal-flow search engine, mnAI, launches for UK investors
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Artificial Intelligence, Data
Built for the investment and acquisition markets, mnAI, a new AI-powered company intelligence platform, has launched in the UK today. mnAI reduces the time it takes companies and individuals to identify and understand relevant businesses from months to minutes.
Robo.cash doubles funding volumes in 2019
- 6 years 6 months ago
- P2P Lending
The fully automated P2P lending platform Robo.cash has summed up the results of its operation in the previous year. For the whole time, the platform has financed €140 million of loans. Out of them, €80 million were funded in 2019. Compared to 2018, it was a double increase in the financing volumes on Robo.cash.
BMLL Appoints Industry Heavyweight Paul Humphrey as Chief Executive Officer
- 6 years 6 months ago
- People Moves
BMLL Technologies, the data engineering and analytics firm, today announced the appointment of Paul Humphrey as Chief Executive Officer. A senior executive with decades of experience in leading positions across the brokerage, banking, data and exchange world, Paul Humphrey joins BMLL Technologies to drive the scale up of the business and realise the firm's mission to democratise access to granular market data and analytical products at speed and...
Nick Applebee joins Planixs’ Customer Leadership Team and to Grow Collateral Capabilities
- 6 years 6 months ago
- People Moves
Planixs, the leading provider of real time, intraday cash, collateral and liquidity management solutions, has today announced that it has appointed Nick Applebee to their Customer Leadership Team and to grow Collateral capabilities. Nick brings with him over 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector having held senior roles at Barclays PLC and Nomura International PLC across product, cash and intraday liquidity management and...
Copper’s Walled Garden Supports 2020’s Digital Gold Institutional Fund Launch by Nickel Digital
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Infrastructure
Nickel Digital Asset Management is announcing today the launch their second cryptocurrency offering, Nickel Digital Gold Institutional fund to allow for secure, efficient, and transparent access to Bitcoin, the leading digital asset. The investment team at UK-regulated manager Nickel brings multi-year experience from traditional finance to leverage opportunities in cryptocurrency.
Broadridge Accelerates Hybrid Cloud Strategy with IBM Services to Drive Next-Gen Capabilities for Clients
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Banking, Cloud
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. [NYSE:BR], a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500® Index, and IBM Services [NYSE:IBM], today announced an agreement to bring new cloud-based solutions to Broadridge’s clients in the financial services industry. As part of this strategic collaboration, Broadridge will create The Broadridge Private CloudTM powered by IBM and will transition a significant portion of its global infrastructure to IBM.
Vend and Klarna put big business software in the hands of boutique retailers across the UK & US
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
Vend, the preferred retail point-of-sale software of the British Independent Retail Association, has today announced a partnership with global payments provider Klarna. The collaboration gives customers of boutique retailers more flexible payment options, levelling the playing field for small business to compete with enterprise retail and offer Klarna’s smooth and easy payments in-store across the United Kingdom. The role out will later follow...
BNY Mellon announces innovative suite of services to deliver greater NAV oversight and contingency for the investment industry
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Fund Management, Investment Management, Banking
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (“BNY Mellon”) today announced a new suite of oversight and contingent Net Asset Value (NAV) calculation solutions to complement its existing fund accounting capabilities for clients. These new services are designed to drive greater transparency, efficiency and risk management for asset managers and asset owners. BNY Mellon’s new NAV offerings, which are platform and provider agnostic, set a new industry...
EPA publishes payment providers guidance in a call for transparency
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Payments
The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which celebrates collaboration and innovation within new and existing finance companies, has published a first of its kind guide to address the need for increased access to bank accounts.
Moneyfarm uncovers the “mid-life opportunity”
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Wealth Management
Moneyfarm, the leading European digital wealth manager, today launches a campaign urging those entering their 40s and 50s to invest in their plans for later life now, after identifying a “mid-life opportunity” which could see them benefit from thousands of pounds extra income to help them realise their retirement goals.
Temenos delivers industry first Banking Distribution Services in Temenos Infinity – a set of cloud based microservices
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Open Banking
Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company, announced that it has delivered new industry first Banking Distribution Services as part of the award-winning Temenos Infinity digital front-office banking product. Temenos Infinity is the first core-agnostic product to give banks the ability to continuously transform at scale, creating AI-driven customer experiences. Through upgradeable, standalone distribution services banks are able to retain...
SteelEye partners with TeleMessage for mobile communications archiving
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Security and Compliance, Data
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has announced a partnership and first joint client with TeleMessage.
42% Rise in Companies Reporting Attacks Attributed to Foreign Governments in 2019
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Cybersecurity
Radware®, a leading provider of cyber security and application delivery solutions, released its 2019-2020 Global Application & Network Security Report. The report found that more than one in four respondents attribute attacks against their organisation to cyberwarfare or nation-state activity. In 2018, 19% of organisations believed they were attacked by a nation-state. That figure increased to 27% in 2019. Companies in North America were...
Vanquis Bank partners with HooYu to digitalise KYC processes
- 6 years 6 months ago
- Security, AML and KYC
Leading customer onboarding and KYC technology firm, HooYu, has announced a partnership to digitalise Vanquis Bank’s KYC processes. The HooYu KYC journey has been selected to provide additional identity proofing during the customer lifecycle when customers perform a potentially high-risk action on their accounts.
