Episode 23 - App News

This week in app news:

• Lightyear and Sage Intaact partner - https://ecommercenews.com.au/story/lightyear-and-sage-partner-for-end-to-end-offering
• Aquilla partner with Plaid for open banking - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/community/industry-insights/aqilla-announces-open-banking-integration-with-plaid
• New UK accounting system entrant - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/accounting-software/accounting-platforms-gear-up-for-battle-of-the-five-armies
• Mastercard debuts pay by link - https://www.pymnts.com/news/payment-methods/2022/mastercard-debuts-open-banking-feature-pay-by-link/
• Iris Pay released - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/community/industry-insights/introducing-iris-pay-the-quick-simple-and-secure-way-to-collect-payments
• Cashplus bank launches digital health tool - https://bit.ly/3xu9gSI
• HMRC expand MTD ITSA pilot - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/accounting-software/hmrc-takes-the-handbrake-off-mtd-itsa-pilot
• Vaulta reporting for Freeagent - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/tech/accounting-software/vaulta-app-targets-advisory-without-the-overkill
• Lightyear updates – Auto-publishing, Deeper integration with xero, bulk actions etc - Feature Release June 2022 (lightyear.cloud)
• Bokio release bank rules - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/community/industry-insights/new-bokio-feature-save-time-with-bank-rules
• Insightly expand their API connections to partners, improvements to segmentation and filtering, enhanced quoting system, Product updates to Insightly AppConnect, Service, Marketing, and CRM
• Comma connects with silicon bank - https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/92873
• Swoop lands £5.4m investment for international expansion - Fintech Swoop lands £5.4 million funding for international expansion (ffnews.com)
• Access group raise £9.2bn - http://ow.ly/YWG650Jsag3
• Codat raise $100m series C - https://bit.ly/3xtVjWg
• Request finance raises $5.5m seed - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/request-finance_request-finance-raises-55m-seed-round-activity-6940583153455493120-lsIi?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=android_app