A Rare first in banking: Thought Machine unveils Vault Rare feature
Thought Machine, a UK-based core banking software provider, has unveiled Vault Rare, claiming this new feature of its flagship Vault offering will allow banks’ customers to edit, adjust and even visually style banking products themselves. Dharmesh Mistry reports for FinTech Futures.
Oxford Drug Design wins UK-China antimicrobial resistance grant
Oxford Drug Design has won a UK-China antimicrobial resistance grant and also boosted its funding with investment from the Angel CoFund.
Bango partners with MobileAction to boost app monetization
Bango and MobileAction, the app store optimization and app intelligence platform, are collaborating to boost in-app payment revenues for app developers through smart campaign targeting.
Arecor strengthens management team to accelerate partnership opportunities
Arecor Limited, the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, today announces the appointment of Jim MacDonald-Clink as Vice President, Business Development with immediate effect.
Arecor pushes to meet unmet needs in diabetes care
Arecor is waiting for the results from phase I clinical trials of its ultra-rapid acting insulin candidate, AT247, expected by the end of the year
Repositive repositions into Science Exchange
Repositive has made its directory of 5,300 preclinical cancer models available on Science Exchange.
Faculty appoints DfE strategy chief Tom Nixon to lead government practice
Tom Nixon has left his role as the Department for Education’s strategy chief to head up British AI firm Faculty’s new government practice.
Taking the RF lab outdoors - CRFS launches portable, high-fidelity RF recorder
RF hardware and software innovator CRFS announces the launch of its new RFeye SenS Portable, a small, lightweight, high-fidelity RF recorder for long-duration signal recording and playback, with applications in defense, manufacturing and telecommunications.
Recycling the previously non-recyclable
Lots of cat foods and certain drinks come in pouches made out of plastic aluminium laminate. This is a decent material environmentally, because it’s so light compared to pure aluminium, so it saves resources and fuel during transportation. But until recently it couldn’t be recycled at all. That’s changed thanks to a company called Enval, which has developed a process to separate the plastic from the aluminium. And supposedly this technique both powers and pays for itself. Phil Sansom went to visit the plant and meet Enval CEO Carlos-Ludlow Palafox...
CRFS unveils RFeye AirDefense
CRFS, a global leader in RF spectrum monitoring, management and geolocation solutions, prepares to unveil its passive 3D airborne tracking system, RFeye AirDefense, at the 56th Annual AOC International Symposium & Convention in Washington DC next week (October 28-30).
Thought Machine Helps Standard Chartered Launch Digital Bank in Hong Kong
Standard Chartered has selected Thought Machine to provide core banking capabilities for its new digital bank launching in Hong Kong, reports Alex Hamilton of Fintech Futures (Finovate’s sister publication).
Arecor and JDRF sign a joint research, development and commercialisation agreement
Arecor Ltd, the biopharmaceutical company advancing today’s therapies to enable healthier lives, announces that it has signed a Research, Development and Commercialisation agreement with JDRF, the leading global organisation funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research.
Repositive launches world-leading directory of preclinical cancer models on Science Exchange
Cambridge, UK and Palo Alto, CA, USA -- Repositive today announced that its Cancer Models Directory, containing over 5,300 preclinical cancer models, is available on Science Exchange, the widely used technology platform for outsourced R&D.
Cambridge to trial crowdfunding open access book
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is launching a crowdfunding campaign to publish a book under the open access model.
Healx raises $56m as it targets rare diseases with AI
A $56million funding round is being announced today by Healx, the Cambridge company using artificial intelligence to find new treatments for rare diseases.
Sorex has $323bn market in its cross-hairs on product launch
Cambridge University spin-out Sorex Sensors has launched its first product based on its breakthrough sensor technology.
Featurespace expands global fraud and financial crime expertise with addition of industry veteran
Featurespace, the world-leader in fraud detection, risk prevention and Anti-Money Laundering monitoring, announced the addition of Dena Hamilton as the company's newest Fraud and Financial Crime market expert.
Healx and ICR to develop AI-derived treatments for rare childhood cancer
Cambridge-based Healx, which uses AI to repurpose drugs to fight rare diseases, has forged an important new partnership to help combat a rare childhood cancer.
Double boost for mental health research
A £35 million mental health research programme led by the MRC will explore what makes teenagers more or less likely to develop mental health problems and how we might intervene early.
King bids to become queen of women entrepreneurs
Martina King, the CEO of Cambridge machine learning company Featurespace, is a contender for the coveted Woman Entrepreneur of the Year crown in Business Weekly’s 30th anniversary awards. The accolade is once again sponsored by the university’s Cambridge Judge Business School.