A global financial institution providing banking and financial services.
Portfolio
6
companies
Abound
Abound provides consumer loans using AI and Open Banking data to assess affordability.
AccessFintech
AccessFintech operates a data and workflow collaboration network for the financial industry.
CloudMargin
CloudMargin provides cloud-native collateral and margin management solutions for the financial sector.
Proxymity
Digital proxy voting and shareholder communication platform.
Synthesized
Synthesized automates test data and infrastructure for enterprise software quality assurance.
Zilch
Zilch provides an AI-driven commerce and payments platform for consumers and retailers.
Michaela Ludbrook
Head of Securities Services
Michaela brings extensive banking and operations experience from senior roles at JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Deutsche Bank. She currently serves as a managing director.
LinkedInJoseph Macdonald
Director, Fixed Income and Currencies Trading
Joseph sits on the executive management committee at OSTTRA and previously held director and board roles at Deutsche Bank, CloudMargin, and AcadiaSoft.
LinkedInStephen Bell
Global Head of FIC and Securities Services
Stephen brings extensive banking operations experience from senior roles at Barclays Capital, JP Morgan, and Deutsche Bank.
Paul Maley
Global Head of Securities Services
Paul serves as Head of Trust and Securities Services and Interim CEO of the Americas at Deutsche Bank, having previously worked as a trainee design engineer at Ford Motor Company.
LinkedInThe funding round was led by KKCG and included participation from Deutsche Bank and BNF Capital.
"In just five years, we have rewired the relationship between brands and their customers, offering a different way to pay that brings mass benefits to both consumers and merchants,"
Redalpine led the Series A round to support team expansion and the rollout of new capabilities.
"Synthesized is tackling one of the most urgent and overlooked challenges in the age of AI: how to test, validate, and trust what we build. Their platform doesn’t just generate high-quality test data – it lays the foundation for a new class of autonomous QA agents that will transform how modern software is verified and shipped. We believe Synthesized can become the infrastructure layer for intelligent, automated quality assurance across regulated and mission-critical systems."
Deutsche Bank has provided up to £250m in new financing to help the credit technology firm scale its operations.
"This new facility from Deutsche Bank further evidences the power of our bank-transaction data led AI credit decisioning technology. Open Banking has become a mature and widely adopted technology in the UK, and is now used by nearly 20 million people. As more and more countries around the world adopt Open Banking, we’re perfectly poised to start taking what’s worked in the UK, global."
The London fintech secured the financing facility from Deutsche Bank to support sales growth and future public market plans.
"We’re thrilled to announce the financing as it marks a transformative step in Zilch’s journey. With this new securitisation, we’re poised to triple sales volumes and achieve significant capital efficiencies as we continue to drive billions in commerce to our retail network and, in turn, hundreds of millions in savings and subsidies to our customer base."
Mediant led the latest financing alongside participation from Citi Ventures and Deutsche Börse Group.
"We are pleased to support Proxymity and their transformative platform for global proxy voting and disclosure, as they work to bring the benefits of digital investor communications to the industry as a whole."