The £169 Billion Opportunity: Empowering Shoppers with Technology

• 1 year 9 months ago
• E-Commerce

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, is publishing economic research that finds that retailers could potentially add £169 billion in revenue to the sector in the UK if they switched to a unified commerce approach and stopped operating in silos.  The economic analysis conducted by the Centre for Economic and Business Research (Cebr) found that unified commerce gave retailers a 16 percentage point boost...

C. Hoare & Co. Goes Live with Integral’s SaaS FX Technology Solution

• 1 year 9 months ago
• SaaS

Integral, a leading currency technology provider to the financial markets, announced today that C. Hoare & Co., the UK’s oldest privately owned bank, has used Integral’s cloud-based SaaS FX technology to enable its customers to access market liquidity and competitive FX rates across both their business and personal accounts.

OSTTRA Launches New Service for Cross-currency Swap (CCS) Conversion from Libor to Risk-free Rates

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Trading Systems

OSTTRA, the global post-trade solutions company, today announced it has successfully delivered the first cross-currency swap conversions of USD/SGD swaps from SOR to SORA. The service will expand to cover other indices subject to cessation in the coming months.

Bright Data Joins AWS ISV Accelerate Programme, Adding Web-Data-Collection Capabilities to the AWS Cloud

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Cloud

Bright Data, the market-leading public web data platform, has been added to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) ISV Accelerate program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners who provide software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS.

InvestEngine Launches New Savings Plans, Bringing the Success of ‘Little and Often’ Investing in Europe to the UK

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Personal Finance

Exchange-traded funds (ETF) investment platform, InvestEngine, has today launched its new Savings Plan feature for customers in the UK, giving both new and experienced investors an easy solution to regularly transfer their income and savings into investments.

Griffin Raises $13.5 Million in Series A Funding Round Led by MassMutual Ventures

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Fundraising News

Griffin, the UK’s first full-stack Banking as a Service platform, today announced that it has raised $13.5 million (£11 million) in a Series A funding round led by global VC firm, MassMutual Ventures, with participation from existing investors Seedcamp, Notion Capital and EQT Ventures. 

Intellect Global Consumer Banking Launches Open Finance Enabled Retail Banking Platform Built on eMACH.ai to Revolutionise the Retail Banking Industry

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Retail Banking

Intellect Global Consumer Banking (iGCB), the consumer banking arm of Intellect Design Arena Limited, has launched its Open Finance Enabled Retail banking platform built on eMACH.ai at Money20/20 in Amsterdam. The new Retail Banking Platform empowers banks to create unique products and curate experiences by partnering with country-ready marketplace players. The platform encompasses end-to-end Retail Banking across Savings,  Deposits, Payments,...

Soochow Securities (HK) Chooses ION’s Fidessa Equities Trading Platform

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Trading Systems

ION, a global leader in trading, analytics, treasury, and risk management solutions for capital markets, commodities, and treasury management, announces that Soochow Securities Co. Ltd of Hong Kong has chosen its Fidessa equities trading platform. Soochow is an international financial services firm, headquartered in Suzhou, China, and will use Fidessa to grow its Hong Kong-based investment banking and brokerage services, and stay competitive in...

The GBA Recognizes Blockchain Trailblazers

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Blockchain

The Government Blockchain Association (GBA) honoured exceptional individuals and organizations for their groundbreaking use of blockchain technology in solving public sector challenges. The Annual Achievement Awards, presented on May 24, 2023, in Washington, DC, celebrated this year's outstanding winners.

Allica Bank Enlists ClearBank to Boost Business Banking for UK SMEs

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Banking

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking for financial institutions, today announced its partnership with Allica Bank, the fintech challenger bank dedicated to supporting established UK small and medium businesses.

American Express and Bluechain Announce Partnership to Streamline SME Payment Processes

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Payments

American Express today announces a new partnership with Request to Pay-focused fintech startup, Bluechain to help streamline the supplier payment process for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). 

Money20/20 Celebrates Five Years of Empowering Women in Financial Services Through RiseUp

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Infrastructure

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, regarded as the place where money does business, celebrates five years of RiseUp, a global programme for promoting diversity and empowering women in the financial services and fintech sector at its flagship European show at RAI Amsterdam.

Collaboration Between Finastra and S&P Global Market Intelligence Aims to Deliver Significant Efficiencies in Corporate and Syndicated Lending

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Lending

Finastra today announced a collaboration with S&P Global Market Intelligence focused on the corporate and syndicated lending market. The companies have agreed to collaborate and integrate their solutions for corporate and syndicated lending, with the aim of delivering significant benefits to common clients.

Is Fear Of Change Paralysing UK Finance Departments?

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Financial

Cogo Raises the Bar in Sustainable Stand Design at Money2020

• 1 year 9 months ago
• Management

Carbon footprint management fintech, Cogo is proud to be ‘walking the walk’ when it comes to taking climate action by creating a sustainable stand at this year’s Money20/20 banking conference in Amsterdam.