General News

November 25, 2022 @ 10:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ClearBank Ltd., the enabler of secure accounts, real-time clearing, and Embedded Banking for financial institutions, announced that it has “reached profitability.” ClearBank Ltd. has “generated £45.4m in revenue YTD and from October has reached monthly profitability in the UK.” The fintech bank “has nearly tripled… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), part of the University of Cambridge, has published its 3rd Global Fintech Regulator Survey. The document is being produced in partnership with the World Bank. CCAF is widely recognized as the top independent research firm following the development of… Read More

November 25, 2022 @ 8:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) recently published its final Guidelines on the use of remote customer onboarding solutions. These Guidelines “set out the steps credit and financial institutions should take to ensure safe and effective remote customer onboarding practices in line with applicable anti-money laundering… Read More

November 24, 2022 @ 9:39 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial services firms across the UK are being urged to prioritize investment and training in skills “including digital literacy, coaching and software development to help the sector tackle ongoing skills gaps and to boost its competitiveness.” The five core skills and behaviors also “include creative… Read More

November 24, 2022 @ 9:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of London, which claims to be the next-generation technology company and the “world’s first” purpose-built global clearing, agency, and transaction bank, announced the appointment of Phil Knight as Group Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Phil will “oversee… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 9:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Capchase, which claims to be the leading provider of non-dilutive capital to SaaS companies, recently shared its Pulse of SaaS report “to provide the most comprehensive view of SaaS startups’ performance following recent economic changes.” The Pulse of SaaS Report “found, when compared to the… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Q-CTRL, which claims to be a global leader in quantum control infrastructure software, and Classiq, a key player focused on quantum algorithm development software, announced a partnership “to provide an end-to-end platform for designing, executing, and analyzing quantum algorithms.” The new partnership will “integrate Classiq‘s… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 3:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent study by global fintech platform Airwallex revealed that small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) businesses in the U.S. “plan to expand in 2023.” While the pandemic and uncertain market conditions have impacted many businesses this year, a vast majority of SMEs (82%) still “plan… Read More

November 23, 2022 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture capital (VC) pre-money valuations remained robust through Q3 2022, as bearish macroeconomic outlooks spread across Europe,” the team at Pitchbook noted. Pitchbook also mentioned that “the drop off in public market capitalizations has not filtered into the VC ecosystem, with the valuations of VC-backed… Read More

November 22, 2022 @ 10:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Low carbon building practices, crucial to achieving greenhouse gas emissions targets, “attracted record levels of venture capital funding in 2022 with investment levels soaring to $2.2bn.” Venture capital raised by companies involved in green building design, building materials procurement and lower carbon construction methods “has… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 9:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aunalytics, a data management and analytics company delivering Insights-as-a-Service for mid-market businesses, announced it has initiated Enterprise Analytics, a managed service comprised of experts in data analytics, data engineering, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The new solution “couples the tools and technology required to… Read More

November 21, 2022 @ 4:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

MakerDAO, which claims to the “longest-standing” decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol and creator of DAI, the original, decentralized stablecoin, announces the launch of Maker Teleport, a multichain infrastructure for teleporting DAI across different blockchain networks. Maker Teleport is now “available on the smart contract chains… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 9:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

LMAX Group, the operator of institutional exchanges for trading FX and digital assets, is expanding its global technology infrastructure in Asia Pacific “following the launch of a matching engine in the Equinix IBX Data Centre in Singapore (SG1).” SG1, which went live earlier this year,… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 6:21 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Addepar has shared the latest updates as they pertain to the Addepar platform, as well as key insights from their proprietary, “anonymized” and aggregated data set, along with highlights from their client community; and updates about their team at Addepar. In November, they’re taking a… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 4:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Autumn Statement delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, last week included some grim news – including the declaration that the UK economy is in a recession. Fiscal sobriety was the message, a sharp turn from the mini-budget under Truss that caused… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 1:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), an international financial center located in UAE’s capital emirate announced a partnership with Rackspace Technology (NASDAQ:RXT), in order “to collaborate on a number of strategic technology initiatives.” As a long standing global leading service provider in multi-cloud computing, technology advisory… Read More

November 20, 2022 @ 12:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority has publicly censured Mohammad Ataur Rahman Prodhan, the former Chief Executive Officer of Sonali Bank (UK) Limited (SBUK) “for anti-money laundering (AML) failings.” Prodhan was “the senior manager at SBUK with responsibility for the establishment and maintenance of effective AML systems… Read More

November 19, 2022 @ 12:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global fintech platform Airwallex announced that UK-based small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) remain optimistic about international expansion next year, “with almost three-quarters (70%) planning to expand into, or further into, foreign markets in 2023.” The independent research, which surveyed 500 UK SME decision makers in… Read More

November 18, 2022 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The reports keep rolling in, highlighting a slowing environment for private firms. Venture capital, along with private equity activity, has been in decline for some time now – a fact that should come as no surprise to anyone. Giga high inflation and the inevitable reaction… Read More

November 17, 2022 @ 5:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

CrowdLustro, a Reg CF and alternative asset aggregation platform, has announced a new feature – a Testing the Waters option for issuers. Under current securities law, Reg CF (Regulation Crowdfunding) securities offerings may “Test the Waters” prior to an official launch of a funding round…. Read More