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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
AU10TIX, a global leader in identity verification (IDV) and management, today announced the appointment of Yair Tal as its new CEO. With over 20 years of leadership experience in payments, fintech, and localization services, Tal will focus on advancing AU10TIX’s machine learning capabilities and driving global growth through a tailored regional approach. He succeeds former CEO Dan Yerushalmi, who is stepping down to dedicate more time to his family.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
Global analytics software leader FICO today announced its speaker line-up for FICO® World 2025 will include executives from more than 50 companies from FICO’s A-list of customers worldwide. Sessions will feature insights from leaders at Ally, BCP BMO, Bradesco, Capital One, Citi, Credit Suisse, Hancock Whitney, Mercedes-Benz, Nationwide Building Society, Navy Federal Credit Union, PicPay, PNC, Santander and many other firms.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, has announced a multi-show strategic partnership with FXC Intelligence, the leading provider of cross-border payments intelligence, to produce a series of landmark data-led reports for Money20/20’s 2025 shows in Bangkok (April 22-24) Amsterdam (June 3-5) and Las Vegas (Oct 26-29). This is the first time Money20/20 has integrated specialised data insights on cross-border payments and across multiple shows.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |Arjun Sethi
Kraken, one of the longest standing and most secure cryptocurrency platforms, today announced the initial rollout of commission-free trading for over 11,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs to clients in New Jersey, Connecticut, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Idaho, Iowa, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Alabama and the District of Columbia. A continuous, phased, national rollout to all eligible U.S. clients will follow.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |Udi Ziv |Puneet Malhotra
Personetics, the Cognitive Banking company that is transforming the way banks build and monetize customer relationships, announced today that Puneet Malhotra has joined the organization as Chief Revenue Officer. He is responsible for Personetics’ global sales operations, overseeing leading global banking brands across 30 countries and serving 150 million active monthly end-users. Previously, Malhotra ran Digital Banking Sales at NCR Voyix and Global Sales at VSoft Corporation.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
UK health tech and life sciences startups raised $1.8 billion in venture capital investment in Q1 2025, the sector’s second strongest quarter on record, according to new analysis from HSBC Innovation Banking UK and Dealroom. Health was the UK’s most funded sector this quarter by a wide margin, attracting more than twice the investment of the next largest sector. Notably, half of the quarter’s megarounds came from health, led by Isomorphic Labs ($600 million) and Verdiva Bio ($411 million).
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
PensionBee, a leading online pension provider, has responded to reports that the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, is planning to allow companies to access surpluses in Defined Benefit (DB) pension schemes – subject to a 25% tax charge – in a move designed to unlock up to £40 billion to support the economy.While the proposal could offer a potential source of growth capital, concerns have been raised about the implications for member security and long-term trust in the pensions system.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
Announced by the Chancellor today, the Growth Guarantee Scheme will provide approximately £500m of additional lending capacity to help more smaller businesses across the UK. The extra funding is aimed at smaller businesses that may need support with cashflow issues due to changes in global tariff rates. Delivered by the British Business Bank through around 50 accredited lenders, the Growth Guarantee Scheme has so far enabled £2.1bn of finance through 13,447 facilities[1].
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
Smart money app Plum has secured £15m in debt financing from global financial group BBVA, following a transformational year of delivery. In the last year, Plum successfully launched key products across Europe, like ETFs in the EU and Cash ISAs in the UK, while accelerating its acquisition and building new AI capabilities to maximise on the potential of the technology for its customers.
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1 week ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton
ZestyAI, the leader in AI-driven risk analytics for insurance, today revealed that more than 12.6 million U.S. properties are at high risk of hail-related roof damage, representing $189.5 billion in potential replacement costs. Powered by ZestyAI’s Z-HAIL™ model, the analysis underscores the growing financial threat of severe convective storms (SCS), including hail, tornadoes, and wind events. In 2024 alone, damages from SCS were estimated at $56 billion—surpassing losses from hurricanes.
