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BlackBerry and Barclays Bank Team Up to Offer P2P Money Transfers

10 years 6 months ago
Payments, Banking

BlackBerry and Barclays Bank announce partnership to enable P2P money transfers via the UK bank's Pingit application over the BBM messaging service.

Regal Financial Group Selects Envestnet | Tamarac Solutions' Portfolio Management Reporting and Trading Software

10 years 6 months ago
Infrastructure

Regal Financial Group has implemented portfolio management reporting and trading software from Envestnet | Tamarac's web-based Advisor® Xi platform for independent RIAs (http://www.tamaracinc.com/Advisor.aspx).

Capgemini Announces Acquisition of Fahrenheit 212

10 years 6 months ago
M&A Deals

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced today the acquisition of Fahrenheit 212, an innovation strategy and design firm. This transaction will augment the capabilities of the Group's global strategy and transformation consulting organization, Capgemini Consulting, to provide new innovation, business transformation and digital customer experience solutions.

Broadridge Enhances Corporate Governance Solution

10 years 6 months ago
Regulatory Standards, BPM

Broadridge Financial Solutions enhanced its corporate governance solution offering in Europe by taking a minority stake and entering into an exclusive distribution and marketing alliance with AMA Partners, B.V. (AMA).

Secure Trading Receives PSP Award at MPE 2016

10 years 6 months ago
Security

Last night, Secure Trading attended the Merchant Payment Ecosystem Awards (MPE Awards) in Berlin, one of the most prestigious events in the payments industry, and was delighted to be awarded the PSP Award. Forming part of the MPE annual conference in Berlin, the MPE Awards is now in its sixth year and is one of the most sought after industry accolades. Recognising the outstanding role of card acquirers, processors, PSPs and solution providers,...

Lighthouse Partners to Offer Blockchain Business Acceleration Advisory Service

10 years 6 months ago
Consultancy, Infrastructure

Driven by recent research and following on from a successful The Block Chain Conference, Lighthouse Partners, Inc. is introducing its Blockchain Business Acceleration Advisory Service, aimed at established IT vendors that wish to embrace blockchain technology and approaches as part of their product and service offerings.

Japanese EMV Migration is Gaining Momentum with FIME

10 years 6 months ago
Payments, Security, Compliance, Infrastructure

FIME announces today that its Japanese laboratory is the first in the country to be accredited by JCB to perform functional testing on contactless payment terminal kernels, in line with its Book C-5 specification which relates to the JCB’spayment scheme. Global manufacturers of contactless payment terminals and mobile point of sale (mPOS) devices, in addition to kernel developers, can now validate the compliance of their products in FIME’s...

Fantastic Cloud Services Received ISO 27001 Certification

10 years 6 months ago
Cloud, Compliance

Leeds-based managed service provider, Fantastic Cloud Services (FCS), has been awarded the highly valued ISO 27001 certification after establishing international best practice in the Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) field. ISMS is a systematic approach to managing sensitive company information so that it remains secure. It includes people, processes and IT systems by applying a risk management process. It can help small, medium and...

Vodafone and TransferTo Join Forces to Enhance Mobile Money Growth Worldwide

10 years 6 months ago
Payments

TransferTo, a leading global Mobile Money hub, has partnered under a framework agreement with Vodafone Group to enable real-time international money transfers to M-Pesa Mobile Money accounts worldwide. Powered by TransferTo’s cross-border Mobile Money network, the global partnership will make it faster and easier for consumers and organizations to send money to multiple M-Pesa accounts, in real time.

Bell ID Token Service Provider Integrated with Android Pay

10 years 6 months ago
Payments

Bell ID, the mobile payments specialist recently acquired by Rambus Cryptography Research, today announces it will support international issuing banks, payment schemes and processors to integrate with Android Pay. Bell ID customers can utilize its Token Service Provider (TSP) software to enable and secure near field communication (NFC) payments functionality on Android phones.

Kyc.com to Expand its Services in Hong Kong and Singapore

10 years 6 months ago
Investment, Banking, Infrastructure

Kyc.com, the joint venture between Markit Ltd. (Nasdaq: MRKT) and Genpact Limited (NYSE: G) today announced the expansion of its service to Hong Kong and Singapore. This roll out is in addition to jurisdictional coverage in the US, UK and Australia which launched in 2014.

Fintech Platform BrickVest Goes Live

10 years 6 months ago
Investment, FinTech StartUps

BrickVest is announcing the launch of its online direct real estate investment platform.The London based Fintech platform allows investors to invest as little as EUR 1,000 in institutional quality real estate that previously was only accessible to large institutions such as pension funds, insurance companies and large family offices.

John B. McCoy to Join the Board of Earthport

10 years 6 months ago
People Moves

Earthport plc (AIM: EPO.L), the leading payment network for cross-border payments, is pleased to announce that John B. McCoy, the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank One Corporation, has agreed to join Earthport’s Board as a Non-executive Director. John McCoy retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bank One Corporation in 1999, the fourth-largest bank in the United States at the time, where he had been CEO since 1984....

PayKey Wins Santander InnoVentures’ 'Pitch Slam' Competition

10 years 6 months ago
FinTech StartUps

Santander InnoVentures, the $100 million fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, in partnership with IE Business School and Accenture, today announced PayKey as the winner of the ‘Pitch Slam’ competition at the first Fintech Venture Day, held in Tel-Aviv.