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Thought Machine and Quantifeed join forces for private banking drive

Thought Machine, the cloud-native banking technology company and Quantifeed, the leading provider of digital wealth management solutions, today announce a new partnership which brings together their joint capabilities to service the private banking sector worldwide.

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Kraken signs sponsorship deal with Tottenham Hotspur

Tottenham Hotspur has today announced a global brand partnership with Kraken. Ahead of the 2024/25 season, Kraken will become the Club’s first-ever Official Crypto and Web3 Partner, and the Official Sleeve Partner for its Men’s and Women’s teams.

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FIS ships digital lending platform developed with Lendio

FIS® (NYSE: FIS), a global leader in financial technology, today announced the launch of its new SMB Digital Lending solution.

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Salt Edge delivers new version of API

Salt Edge, a leading open banking solutions provider, recently launched its 6th Open Banking Gateway API version.

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Capco names Paul Riseborough as UK managing partner

Capco, the global management and technology consultancy, today announced the appointment of Paul Riseborough as Managing Partner for Capco’s business in the UK, effective July 1.

/payments

FSB bids to address legal, supervisory and regulatory frictions in cross-border payments

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published today, for public consultation, its proposed recommendations to promote greater alignment in data frameworks related to cross-border payments and consistency in the regulation and supervision of bank and non-bank payment service providers.

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EBA consults on guidelines on reporting of data under MiCAR

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation on draft Guidelines on reporting requirements to assist competent authorities and the EBA in performing their duties under the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR).

/markets

Abaxx taps Baymarket technology for Singapore commodity futures exchange

Baymarkets AS (“Baymarkets”), and Abaxx Technologies Inc. (NEO:ABXX)(OTCQX:ABXXF) (“Abaxx”), today announced that Abaxx’s indirectly held, majority-owned Singapore-based exchange (“Abaxx Exchange”) and clearinghouse (“Abaxx Clearing”), has chosen the award-winning Baymarkets clearing technology and platform, Clara, to power their newly-launched, Singapore-based Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse, licensed as a Recognised Market Operator (“RMO”) and Approved Clearing House (“ACH”) with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (“MAS”).

/retail

Lemonade expands home insurance offering in the UK

Lemonade, the digital insurance company powered by AI and social impact, today announced the launch of Buildings and Contents insurance in the UK.

/security

PayPoint issues warning over unauthorised cheque fraud

PayPoint today issues a warning over the risks of Unauthorised Cheque Fraud which last year cost victims in the UK £5.6 million according to the UK Finance Annual Fraud Report 2024.

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Oanda introduces cryptocurrencies as payment method in prop trading business

OANDA announced today that it has introduced cryptocurrencies* as a payment method in its prop trading business, OANDA Prop Trader, giving customers globally the option to pay for trading Challenges using cryptocurrencies via the program’s user portal.

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Capital markets tech startup Assiduous secures €500k funding package

Assiduous Corp Ltd. (“Assiduous”), the Irish capital markets technology pioneer, today announced that it has been selected by EIT Digital to join the Open Innovation Factory 2024.