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A recent bi-annual study by Toluna has found that a majority of UK consumers still have strong confidence in banks and see bank branches as playing an important role.

Wealth managers might not be aware, but there is a revolution underway in how they handle customer journeys. Traditionally a firm has used a customer relationship management (CRM) solution to track engagements, but this is being made redundant by the better equipped client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions.

Cyber insurance and security firm Coalition has raised $205m from a Series E funding round, lifting its valuation to $3.5bn.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published in 2022 Annual Work Programme to set out what it intends to work on over the next 12 months.

Card issuing company Highnote has raised $54m in seed and Series A funding as the firm emerges from stealth.

Mastercard has entered the buy now, pay later (BNPL) market after it unveiled flexible payment platform Installments in the US, the UK and Australia.

Zendrive, which claims to use data and analytics to improve auto insurance and claims, has teamed up with bolt to help insurers acquire safer drivers.

Insurance company H.W Kaufman has bolstered its footprint in the Americas with the acquisition of Chilean firm Prospect Brokers.

Nucoro, a WealthTech100 company, has made its cloud-native platform available for purchase through Finastra’s FusionStore.

Retail giant Amazon will begin offering insurance to UK SMEs through a partnership with broker Superscript.