Vesttoo, a leading insurance risk transfer platform, announced that it had signed a partnership agreement with Clear Blue to supply the latter with reinsurance capacity sourced from capital markets investors, totaling a sum of $1 billion USD. Vesttoo’s mission is to bridge the gap between insurance and capital markets by growing insurance-linked investments as a
September 12-15, 2022 | Las Vegas
September 12-15, 2022 | Las Vegas The conference brings together finance, accounting, ESG, and compliance professionals. Join us in person or virtually to deep dive into finance, audit, ESG, accounting, and more. Read More
The property sector across the UK is set for a £3bn boost as specialist bank GB Bank officially launches after receiving its full UK banking license. The Middlesbrough-based GB Bank is now able to go forward with its ambitious plans thanks to the banking license. It has agreed to lend £3 billion over a five-year period.
Crypto.com, the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency platform, announced today it has received regulatory approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom (UK) as a crypto asset business. This registration will enable Crypto.com to offer a suite of products and services to customers in the UK, compliant with local regulations. “This is a significant
Scalable Capital has exceeded the ten-billion-euro mark in client assets. Within one year, the company has more than doubled client assets. With more than 600,000 clients on its platform, Scalable Capital is one of the leading digital investment platforms in Europe and one of the fastest-growing European FinTechs. ‘In just a few years, our assets went
The majority of job postings for positions in finance specify “an ability to deal with numbers” or “like working with numbers” as requirements for candidates. So it makes sense to think that those in the financial and accounting fields would also possess some degree of data literacy—the capacity to read, work with, evaluate, and communicate
26 September - 28 September 2022 | London‚ United Kingdom
26 September – 28 September 2022 | London‚ United Kingdom With in-depth sessions on ensuring effective compliance with regulations like the FRTB and SA-CCR, adapting to climate risk, enhancing capital planning, and overcoming macroeconomic challenges, the 25th edition of the Marcus Evans Capital Management for Banking Institutions conference, to be held between September 26 and 28,
Florida-based B2B payments platform Plastiq is to become a publicly traded company following a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Colonnade Acquisition Corporation. The new company, with an estimated $480 million in value, will continue to be run by CEO Eliot Buchanan and go by the name Plastiq. Plastiq expects the transaction to increase
Companies all throughout the world, particularly retailers, wholesalers, transporters, and logistics service providers, are experiencing the effects of increased fuel prices. Diesel prices increased by 65% in the US, 58% in Canada, 28% in Germany, and 36% in the UK in May 2022 compared to the same month last year. Few businesses have made major
Ohio-based KeyBank has tapped fintech Quavo for its QFD automated dispute management platform. When a credit transaction is contested or fraud is discovered, KeyBank will implement the cloud-based QFD system to streamline its fraud and dispute procedures and automate the manual tasks needed, from claim intake and investigation to claim resolution and recovery. “We are
Savana, a financial software player that helps banks and fintechs go digital, has raised $45 million in a Series A funding round led by growth-stage investor Georgian. Fiserv, a major player in the fintech industry and a reseller of Savana, participated in the round. A bank’s technological ecosystem is supposed to be “orchestrated” by Savana’s
Moving boxes across nations is only one aspect of the supply chain, and there are other factors at play in the current global issue than just capacity and driver shortages. Participants in international trade must deal with dozens of vendors and the difficulties that come with them, including moving and storing products, passing customs, navigating
