All articles by Refna Tharayil

Refna Tharayil

Evelyn Partners continues to expand in Scotland with addition of PPM Wealth team

Evelyn Partners, which was created from the merger of Tilney and Smith & Williamson in 2020, has deep roots in Scotland with Smith & Williamson having been founded in Glasgow in 1881

UK-based Alfa Financial Software receives £614m buyout offer from EQT 

Under the proposal, EQT will offer 208p per share in cash to shareholders of Alfa Financial Software, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange

Google Cloud introduces Anti Money Laundering AI for financial firms 

Anti Money Laundering AI offers a combined machine learning-generated customer risk score as a substitute for rules-based transaction warnings

Santander CIB invests in Komgo to digitalise trade finance 

As part of the collaboration, both parties aim to speed up the digital transformation of several trade and working capital products

Cross River Bank and Fintainium expand fintech payment offerings for small and medium businesses 

Through the collaboration, Cross River will provide a range of payment services, including connection to the automated clearing house (ACH) network, check processing with positive pay fraud prevention, and push-to-card capabilities to enhance Fintainium’s payment offerings for their business customers

Rakbank to transform business finance operations with Newgen Software

The Trade Finance and SCF solution, which is built on low code digital transformation platform NewgenONE, will enable Rakbank to easily automate the origination and processing of transactions

Boost Payment, OneSource Virtual partner to transform fully automated invoice payments 

Through the collaboration with Boost Payment, OneSource Virtual seeks to support its customers in bolstering their supplier relationships by mitigating the friction often associated with procure-to-pay payments

US-based Cleareye.ai secures investment from J.P. Morgan 

Headquartered in California, Cleareye.ai offers a digital trade finance solution dubbed ClearTrade for digital automation of trade compliance and operations

Waverly Advisors acquires Silicon Hills Wealth Management

Silicon Hills was co-founded by entrepreneurs Tom Brown and James Werner in 2013 as an innovative and service-oriented wealth management firm

Codebase Technologies partners with Cloud4C to drive cloud-based innovation 

Codebase Technologies will join Cloud4C as a preferred ISV partner and Digibanc will be available to the latter’s clients as an advanced cloud banking solution