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ESF/ThinCats announces £200 million funding programme to support lending to UK SMEs

ESF/ThinCats announces £200 million funding programme to support lending to UK SMEs

ESF Capital, together with its operating subsidiary, ThinCats, has concluded a funding programme for loans of up to £5m for growing UK..

SIX Securities Services goes live with its trade repository to report derivatives transactions in Switzerland

SIX Securities Services goes live with its trade repository to report derivatives transactions in Switzerland

Today – six months after receiving approval from FINMA – the Swiss trade repository service provided by SIX Securities Services offici..

Cardano launches with Bittrex as first exchange partner

Cardano launches with Bittrex as first exchange partner

New Ada cryptocurrency token will tradable on one of the largest digital currency exchanges Cardano Foundation, IOHK and Emurgo, the t..

Anthony Di Iorio Joins Bancor Co-Founder and Bittrex CEO on StormX Advisory Board

Anthony Di Iorio Joins Bancor Co-Founder and Bittrex CEO on StormX Advisory Board

StormX releases whitepaper for STORM Token StormX, Inc., the blockchain, adtech, and micro-task company, has announced Jaxx Founder an..

Squirro launches new advanced AI platform TRINITY to enable Machine Learning to deliver insights driven applications across the enterprise

Squirro launches new advanced AI platform TRINITY to enable Machine Learning to deliver insights driven applications across the enterprise

Squirro’s TRINITY platform to become the digital nervous system for the enterprise Squirro,the advanced context intelligence and insig..

Delio Appoints New Senior Client Director

Delio Appoints New Senior Client Director

UK FinTech Delio, the leading white-label platform for private assets, has announced the appointment of a senior client director to fo..

Gateley appoints new director to launch Global Mobility practice

Gateley appoints new director to launch Global Mobility practice

Gateley, the national commercial law and professional services group, has appointed director, Steve Asher, to launch a new service off..

IMF Publishes Fiscal Transparency Evaluation for Georgia

IMF Publishes Fiscal Transparency Evaluation for Georgia

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has today published a Fiscal Transparency Evaluation report for Georgia. The report assesses Geo..

Polymath Unveils Stacked Board of Advisors, First Token Issuers & a ‘GitHub for Lawyers’

Polymath Unveils Stacked Board of Advisors, First Token Issuers & a ‘GitHub for Lawyers’

First-ever tokenized securities platform gains interest from industry heads, VC funds, REITs, and PE firms   Polymath, the first-ever ..

BankEx, the Decentralized Bank-as-a-Service Exchange, Welcomes Stanford and Maryland Academics as Advisors

BankEx, the Decentralized Bank-as-a-Service Exchange, Welcomes Stanford and Maryland Academics as Advisors

Ostrovsky and Cramton Join Chris Skinner and Executives from Waves, ChronoBank and Symphony Foundation on BankEx Advisory Board BankEx..

Lionel Grosclaude appointed CEO at FIME

Lionel Grosclaude appointed CEO at FIME

Recruited to lead FIME into the next phase of its growth strategy FIME, a global leader in consulting, testing solutions and certifica..

Hiring boom adds pressure to firms’ retention plans

Hiring boom adds pressure to firms’ retention plans

New research revealed by recruitment specialist Robert Half Technology UK suggests that the IT and technology market is changing with ..

StormX Establishes Strategic Partnership WithZenCash

StormX Establishes Strategic Partnership WithZenCash

StormX, Inc. has closed its seed round of financing StormX, Inc., the blockchainad tech and micro-task company previously known as Cak..

IMF and the National Bank of Belgium Sign SDR 350 million Borrowing Agreement to Support Lending to Low-Income Countries

IMF and the National Bank of Belgium Sign SDR 350 million Borrowing Agreement to Support Lending to Low-Income Countries

The International Monetary Fund (IMF), as Trustee of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT), and the National Bank of Belgium h..

Colnvestor partners with leading cohort of fund managers ahead of peak tax season

Colnvestor partners with leading cohort of fund managers ahead of peak tax season

CoInvestor, the alternative assets platform, has partnered with five major fund managers in the run-up to the height of the tax season..

RavenPack Opens Its Big Data Analytics Platform to Fundamental Investors

RavenPack Opens Its Big Data Analytics Platform to Fundamental Investors

New enhancements and functionality empowers wider investment community to construct trading signals from big data RavenPack, the leadi..

New report by Synechron and Efma examines the bank branch of the future

New report by Synechron and Efma examines the bank branch of the future

Global banks look at changing model to improve customer experience through digitization  Synechron, Inc, the global financial services..

New Forex Comparison Site Aims To Stop UkSmes From Being Burned On International Transfers Fees

New Forex Comparison Site Aims To Stop UkSmes From Being Burned On International Transfers Fees

WhichFX, the first forex broker comparison site, launches  SMEs will get the same deals as large corporates  Focused on making the ex..

Investor & CNBC Contributor BRIAN KELLY Joins Veridium Labs Board of Advisors

Investor & CNBC Contributor BRIAN KELLY Joins Veridium Labs Board of Advisors

Kelly will advise and invest in cryptocurrency project creating corporate sustainability solutions and liquid markets for carbon credi..

Former SEC Enforcement Chief and Deutsche Bank General Counsel Richard H. Walker Joins King & Spalding in New York

Former SEC Enforcement Chief and Deutsche Bank General Counsel Richard H. Walker Joins King & Spalding in New York

King & Spalding announced that Richard H. Walker, former Director of Enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission who for..

Stroock Expands Private Funds Group with Addition of Partner Eric Requenez

Stroock Expands Private Funds Group with Addition of Partner Eric Requenez

Mr.Requenez advises investment advisers, investment banks and other financial institutions in fund formation and related regulatory an..

UK BANKING GROUP STRENGTHENS CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY AHEAD OF GDPR

UK BANKING GROUP STRENGTHENS CUSTOMER DATA SECURITY AHEAD OF GDPR

 Close Brothers Technology Services has partnered with DataRaze to expand its secure data destruction offering for customers  UK mer..

ID Finance grows footprint in Latin America with launch of Mexico operations

ID Finance grows footprint in Latin America with launch of Mexico operations

Alternative lender now issuing over 60,000 loans each month ID Finance, the emerging markets fintech company, has expanded its presenc..

Atom bank teams up with Reevoo to improve customer engagement and service transparency 

Atom bank teams up with Reevoo to improve customer engagement and service transparency 

Atom, the UK’s first bank built exclusively for mobile, has partnered with user-generated content platform Reevoo to drive great..

Varengold Bank AG to provide £45m to UK SMEs through MarketInvoice

Varengold Bank AG to provide £45m to UK SMEs through MarketInvoice

German Bank Varengold enters strategic partnership with MarketInvoice MarketInvoice reaches landmark £1.5b funding milestone MarketIn..

Over 8,500 New Jobs Created In Financial Services From Foreign Direct Investment In 2016-17

Over 8,500 New Jobs Created In Financial Services From Foreign Direct Investment In 2016-17

FDI made in financial services will provide 8,847 new jobs FDI projects in business and consumer services are set to create the hig..

Phillips Nizer Adds Two New Partners, Litigator Craig Penn And Corporate Attorney Carl Kleidman, To New York Office

Phillips Nizer Adds Two New Partners, Litigator Craig Penn And Corporate Attorney Carl Kleidman, To New York Office

Penn represents clients in wide range of industries in litigation matters; Kleidman, a former managing partner of a private equity fir..

New client Secondsight continues Psyon’s transformation of employee benefits data management in the UK

New client Secondsight continues Psyon’s transformation of employee benefits data management in the UK

Psyon has worked with its new client Secondsight, the employee benefits division of Foster Denovo Limited, to enable Secondsight clien..

INNIS & GUNN ACCEPTS INVESTMENT OFFER

INNIS & GUNN ACCEPTS INVESTMENT OFFER

L Catterton, the world’s leading consumer goods private equity firm has made an investment in the craft brewer following outstanding b..

Alderbrooke appoints former Vice President, Workforce Analytics at IBM, Jonathan Ferrar as Board Advisor

Alderbrooke appoints former Vice President, Workforce Analytics at IBM, Jonathan Ferrar as Board Advisor

Alderbrooke, the human capital consultancy, has today announced the appointment of Jonathan Ferrar, the globally respected HR strategy..

Major Port Group Warns UK Businesses Against ‘Brexit Blinkers’

Major Port Group Warns UK Businesses Against ‘Brexit Blinkers’

EXPORTERS URGED TO EXPLORE EMERGING MARKETS AS INDUSTRY UNITES FOR LONDON INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING WEEK. In the week that global maritim..

Leading Point Financial Markets Acquires LMMC to Strengthen its Insurance Services Offering

Leading Point Financial Markets Acquires LMMC to Strengthen its Insurance Services Offering

Leading Point Financial Markets, a specialist financial services business consultancy, has acquired LMMC, a data and transformation in..

McDermott Maintains Private Equity Growth Momentum in Chicago

McDermott Maintains Private Equity Growth Momentum in Chicago

International law firm McDermott Will & Emery announced today that it is continuing the expansion of its finance and private equit..

IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Lebanon

IMF Staff Concludes Visit to Lebanon

End-of-Mission press releases include statements of IMF staff teams that convey preliminary findings after a visit to a country. The v..

Former General Counsel For The U.S. Intelligence Community Joins Morrison &Foerster In Washington, D.C.

Former General Counsel For The U.S. Intelligence Community Joins Morrison &Foerster In Washington, D.C.

Robert S. Litt further strengthens the firm’s growing National Security and Global Risk & Crisis Management Practices Morrison &a..

Croatia’s First ICO Aims to Create a Democratized Wall Street

Croatia’s First ICO Aims to Create a Democratized Wall Street

Digital Assets Power Play announces novice-friendly crypto-trading platform Digital Assets Power Play (DPP or DA Power Play), a finte..

TCS Global Trend Study on Artificial Intelligence Reveals Industry Wide Investment by 2020

TCS Global Trend Study on Artificial Intelligence Reveals Industry Wide Investment by 2020

Disrupted Industries like Travel, Hospitality and Telecom Making Boldest Investments in Artificial Intelligence Consumer Packaged Good..