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UK-based intermediary platform Acre has a new name and brand identity, Score, marking the next step in its evolution, and accelerating ClearScore’s expansion into mortgages.
Monizze Pay enables users to pay with their smartphone directly from the Monizze app, on both iOS and Android, while strengthening the country’s local employee benefits ecosystem.
Bank payment company GoCardless has processed the first agentic account-to-account transaction in the UK, an AI-driven donation on its website for Trussell, an anti-poverty charity and community of food banks.
A Financial Conduct Authority review into SME access to finance found that the challenges are often greatest for microbusinesses in the UK.
Novello Chartered Surveyors has joined the Open Property Data Association, bringing its frontline surveying experience and growing use of AI and Smart Data to the development of Open Property data standards across the UK housing market.
The new Experian Marketplace feature helps individuals better understand their likelihood of approval before applying for products such as loans and credit cards.
The new product analyses customer behaviour, primacy, and financial signals across their entire portfolio.
The round was led by European fintech specialist BlackFin Capital Partners.
Through the partnership, government agencies can verify both the person requesting a benefit and the associated financial account receiving it, in one place.
The integration will allow merchants to accept AI-initiated purchases across multiple platforms with a unified setup.
