ACI Worldwide, one of the leading companies in the fintech world, has provided cutting-edge solutions for the financial services industry since 1975. ACI powers e-payments for financial institutions, intermediaries, retailers and billers. ACI’s Payments Intelligence solution portfolio is structured to provide the artefacts that empower organizations to make timely and contextualized decisions to combat existing and emerging cybercriminal threats accurately.

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Today P27 Nordic Payments Platform (owned by Danske Bank, Handelsbanken, Nordea, OP Financial Group, SEB and Swedbank) and Mastercard have announced a partnership to provide real-time and batch payments across the Nordic markets; building the most advanced, innovative and efficient payments system in the world.

By working together the partnership will connect people across the cluster of countries using multiple currencies. This bold ambition will transform how money moves for consumers, businesses, society, and the payments industry itself.

Cloudian® today announced a joint solution with Seagate Technology to provide industry-leading storage density, scalability and economics for private cloud infrastructures with capacity needs of multi-petabytes to an exabyte. The new solution—Cloudian HyperStore® Xtreme, Powered by Seagate—combines Cloudian’s fully S3-compatible object storagesoftware with Seagate’s newest high-density storage systems to offer customers up to 70% lower total cost of ownership than Storage-as-a-Service options.

TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has announced the appointment of Thomas Mullooly as its new Head of US Sales.

In this role, Mr. Mullooly is responsible for all sales efforts throughout the United States, and will prioritize the further adoption of TORA’s sophisticated OEMS in this key market. He reports to TORA managing director Chris Jenkins.

Open banking isn’t just a European pursuit. For those under PSD2 - the European regulation mandating banks to open-up their back-end to third-parties – the urgency to deliver these services is clear. But players further afield shouldn’t avoid joining the trend or championing the real objective of PSD2 in their strategy – facilitating more valuable and engaging consumer experiences.

Riverbed®, The Digital Performance Company™, today announced that multinational law firm Simmons & Simmons, has chosen Riverbed® SteelCentral™ Aternity to enhance the employee experience across the company’s applications, devices, and network, and help increase the productivity of the firm’s lawyers so they can focus on delivering great client service.

 ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with the international payments company and BIN sponsor Moorwand, to expand its banking capabilities through next-generation IBAN solutions.

EMVCo has updated the EMV® 3-D Secure (EMV 3DS) Testing Programme which includes test platform and process updates to support the EMV 3DS 2.2.0 Core Specification and EMV 3DS 2.2.0 SDK Specification released in December 2018.

Since Blockchain was founded in 2011 we have seen bitcoin and other digital asset ownership grow from thousands of people to over 30 million people today. This phenomenal growth has significantly outpaced the internet’s growth rate (approximately 2x faster) and characterized by some regulators as a “miracle”.

Blockchain is pleased to release our first “Crypto Investment Thesis”, which outlines our view on why an ever growing number of people are choosing to use and own digital assets.

Turnkey open banking platform provider, Token.io, today announces it has been chosen by Tallinn Business Bank (TBB) to deliver PSD2 compliance in partnership with technology provider Icefire.

TBB is the oldest commercial bank operating in Estonia. Icefire is integrating Token PSD2^TM into the bank’s infrastructure to establish compliance with the Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) before the September 14^thdeadline.