The Glue is pleased to announce the availability of an independent market survey report - The impact of Digital in global financial services - Evolution, not revolution - which is being published at the EBAday 2017 conference being held in Dublin on 20th – 21st June 2017. The report was commissioned by The Glue to gain a better understanding of how financial institutions are addressing the many complex challenges they currently face in achieving business and digital transformation within their respective firms.

Wirecard and VEON have signed a global payments and processing agreement that will see Wirecard handling the airtime top-up as well as third party payments functionality on VEON’s personal internet platform. This means customers will be able to upload and update their mobile payment accounts on-the-go and within a few seconds.

i2c, a global provider of smarter payments and integrated commerce solutions, today announced that it has appointed Jean Douchey as senior vice president of operations. Ms. Douchey will oversee global operations, including contact centers, fraud, disputes, and third-party partner relationships, and will be responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of high-quality services for i2c customers. Ms. Douchey will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Amir Wain.

Syniverse and Pinn today announced that they are working together with Syniverse’s global platform and Pinn’s attribution solution to deliver the new level of transaction security and continuous attribution required by impending regulation like Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Fiorano Software, a leader in enterprise integration, today announced that EBank, a major Namibian commercial bank, has successfully implemented Fiorano ESB to integrate its Temenos T24 core banking system.

smartTrade Technologies, a multi-asset electronic trading solutions pioneer, announced today that Sucden Financial, a leading London based institutional FX and derivatives broker, has implemented LiquidityFX, smartTrade’s fully hosted FX solution.

Finastra today announced that it is partnering with SIA, European leader in payment infrastructures and services, to provide real-time payment capabilities to financial institutions operating all over Europe. This will enable financial institutions to use the Finastra (formerly D+H) payments solutions to connect via SIAnet to RT1, EBA CLEARING’s pan-European Instant Payments infrastructure.

WISeKey International Holding Ltd, a leading global cybersecurity company, today announced the launch of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain Centre of Excellence based out of India to support its global projects.