Zvilo, a working capital lender to businesses in the EU, Türkiye, Africa, and the Middle East, has made a strategic appointment with Peter Maila joining the business. Peter will spearhead Zvilo’s African expansion as CEO of Zvilo Africa and serve on executive committees at Zvilo global level.

AI-powered SME business account provider ANNA Money has teamed up with embedded finance innovator Shaype to launch Australia’s first all-in-one business finance “super app”, now rolling out to startups and proprietary limited (“Pty Ltd“) companies.

The Digital Lenders Association of India (DLAI) has rebranded itself as the Unified Fintech Forum (UFF). The name change reflects the diverse mix of its member institutions within a dynamic fintech environment. UFF comprises around 120 members representing both regulated and unregulated firms engaged in digital financial services.

Plumery, a digital banking experience platform for customer-centric banking, today announces a strategic partnership with Darien Technology, a consulting and technology firm specialising in financial services across South America and Spain.

Fnality has introduced a pioneering capability that brings programmability and conditionality to the digital representation of funds at the central bank in the Sterling Fnality Payment System (£FnPS), the world’s first regulated DLT-based wholesale payment system.

Volt, the global real-time payments platform, today announces its new strategic open banking partnership with Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification platform. Volt will power Sumsub’s Penny Drop Verification flow, which involves an end user being directed to their banking app after scanning their identity document.

Candescent, a leading independent digital banking technology provider, today announced the opening of its new office in Bangalore, India, to support ongoing talent investment and accelerate product delivery. A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place today to celebrate the milestone.

TymeBank is cautioning consumers about fraudsters using notifications about the VAT increase, which is expected to come into effect on 1 May, as bait to trick you.

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications, today announced that Mediterranean Bank, a provider of retail and corporate banking services in Libya, has selected its core banking solution, Finastra Essence, to deliver advanced digital banking services to its customers.

Xceptor, the intelligent data automation platform for financial markets, and OnCorps AI, a leading provider of pre-trained AI and agents for financial operations, are partnering to bring advanced reconciliations and confirmations solutions to the industry.

Top UK accountancy and business advisory firm Johnston Carmichael has appointed a new Head of its Financial Services sector team.

Leading cashflow finance provider eCapital Commercial Finance (eCapital) has appointed Jason Sedgwick as Regional Sales Manager within their South of England team.

ING is pleased to announce the appointment of Enrique Piñel as Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Institutions Advisory based in the UK.

ECI Partners, the leading mid-market private equity firm, has announced the appointment of Neal Griffith as CFO designate. Griffith joins from pan-European private equity firm, Equistone Partners Europe, where he was CFO and Chief Risk Officer, having joined as Group Financial Controller in 2017. Prior to Equistone he was Fund Financial Controller for investment firm, BC Partners. His appointment to CFO will follow the retirement of incumbent, Philip Shuttleworth, at the end of the year, after almost 30 years with ECI.

iplicit, the cloud accounting platform purpose-built for the UK mid-market, has announced a new product that will enable accountancy partners to better serve midmarket clients with business process outsourcing (BPO).