All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

Chatham Financial expands capital markets capabilities with acquisition of New York City-based EA Markets

The addition of the premier talent from EA Markets brings significant experience and expertise to Chatham

Iwoca raises £200m from Barclays and Värde Partners 

Launched in 2012, iwoca has lent more than £2.5bn across the UK and Germany to over 120,000 business loans

Revnue unveils AI-powered mobile app to transform asset and contract lifecycle management

The new mobile app is designed to improve and optimise businesses’ asset, contract, customer, supplier, and services data management

Intuit launches QuickBooks Bill Pay to deliver B2B payments with AP automation

The new fully integrated, Intuit-built solution addresses the bill pay requirements of businesses of any size, including the ability to generate seamless approval workflows

Tavant launches data platform Data Beats for fintechs and financial institutions 

Built to inform, provide insights, act, recommend, and predict, Data Beats ushers in a new era of data-driven intelligence for the industry

Deutsche Bank wraps up £410m acquisition of Numis

Upon closing of the acquisition, Deutsche Bank introduced Deutsche Numis, a UK investment banking and adviser for UK-listed companies.

UK FCA fines Equifax £11m over consumer data breaches

The breach allowed cyber-hackers to access the personal data of nearly 13.8 million UK consumers as Equifax outsourced data to Equifax Inc’s servers in the US for processing

QIIB to expand digital transformation plan with fintech firm FynPay

Through the partnership, QIIB aims to boost the bank’s digital channels and local footprint as well as to utilise FynPay to make an impact

RBC, Xero to help Canadian enterprises to automate payables process

The partnership between the parties will allow business customers to integrate their RBC PayEdge account with Xero to streamline and automate payments to suppliers across the globe

Fiserv and Plaid join forces to transform secure data sharing for financial institutions

By connecting to the Plaid network through Fiserv’s AllData Connect, financial institutions can guarantee that consumers enjoy dependable access to their data