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The Future of Fintech in the UK 2023

13 April 2023 686 downloads

Mind the gap: Revolut's mean gender pay differential increases

Revolut's attempts to bridge the gender pay gap at its business appears to be going into reverse, with the mean differential between women and men increasing from 22.7% last year to 25.4% as of April 2022.

05 April 2023

News/people

European Payments Council names Giorgio Andreoli Director General

Etienne Goosse will step down as Director General of the EPC from April 2023 after 12 years in the role.

31 March 2023

News/people

Accenture to cut 19,000 employees as corporate spending wanes

Accenture has announced it will cut 19,000 jobs, 2.5% of its workforce, over the next 18 months. This follows a number of cutbacks in the finance and fintech sector amid a slowdown in IT spending.

24 March 2023

News/payments

Earned wage access platform Rain raises $116m

Earned wage access platform Rain has closed a Series A round comprised of $66 million in equity and another $50 million in debt.

23 March 2023

Company update/identity

Keystone Talent Bank integrates ID-Pal for right-to-work checks

Global identity verification provider ID-Pal today announced a partnership with Keystone Talent Bank to deliver real-time digital right to work checks.

20 March 2023

News/retail

CBA using productivity app to spy on staff

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has come under fire for using an app that tracks workers' downtime, ordering 'non-productive' workers to apply for a leave of absence.

15 March 2023

Company update/people

Provenir taps Vincent Camara as regional leader for France

Provenir, a global leader in data and AI-powered risk decisioning software, today announced that Vincent Camara has been appointed Regional Manager in France. Camara will lead Provenir’s sales operations in the region, serving the growing number of financial services businesses in need of data and AI-powered risk decisioning solutions.

10 March 2023

Company update/people

World Federation of Exchanges publishes Women Leaders List for 2023

The World Federation of Exchanges (“The WFE”), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, today published its annual Women Leaders List.

03 March 2023

News/people

N26 chief risk officer quits

German digital bank N26 has lost its third senior executive in a year, with chief risk officer Thomas Grosse leaving for personal reasons.

03 March 2023

News/cloud

Financial Cloud Summit 2023: Strategising digital transformation and balancing trust with partners

To successfully engage in digital transformation in the transition to the cloud, financial firms are looking for creative methods to approach their cloud strategy. In doing so, companies are dealing with issues of cost, security, and scalability. The first stage of the conference explores how companies are making strategic on visibility, data ownership, cloud providers, and more.

02 March 2023

News/people

Swiss fintech Radicant sacks CEO

Radicant Bank, a Switzerland-based digital bank, has sacked its CEO and co-founder after an internal email blasting critics and local politicians was leaked online.

23 February 2023

Company update/people

FintechX appoints Viljar Kähari as chief compliance officer

Viljar Kähari has joined FintechX OÜ as chief compliance officer. Based in the company’s Tallinn, Estonia, headquarters, he will serve as a member of the management board.

17 February 2023

Company update/retail

Bank of Ireland introduces family friendly policies for staff

As part of its ambition to be one of the best places to work in Ireland and Northern Ireland, Bank of Ireland Group plc has announced a range of both new and enhanced family friendly policies and supports.

15 February 2023

News/people

PayPal’s Dan Schulman to step down

PayPal’s president and CEO Dan Schulman has announced his plans to retire from the payments giant on December 31st, 2023.

10 February 2023

News/people

Zenus Bank appoints John Woods as chief revenue officer

The Puerto Rico-based digital bank that allows people and businesses around the world to open a US bank account, Zenus Bank, has promoted John Woods to chief revenue officer (CRO).

09 February 2023

News/people

BNPL provider Affirm cuts 19% of staff, ends crypto initiative

BNPL platform Affirm announced it has cut 19% of its workforce, amounting to 500 employees.

09 February 2023

Company update/people

MarketAxess selects Pierce Lord as head of data product

MarketAxess a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income market, has today announced the appointment of Pierce Lord as Head of Data Product, a new role for the business.

09 February 2023

Company update/people

Detected names Mike Ainslie as new CFO

Detected, the London based fintech business is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Ainslie as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mike brings a wealth of experience in the financial and operations industry, having served as COO of World-Check and more recently as CFO at Yell.

02 February 2023

Company update/people

Hans Wijers steps down as ING supervisory board chairman

ING announced today that Hans Wijers has expressed the intention for personal reasons to hand over his duties as chairman and retire from the ING Group Supervisory Board in the second half of 2023. Hans Wijers was appointed to the Supervisory Board in 2017 and became its chairman in 2018. In 2021 he was reappointed for a second term.

02 February 2023