The Emerging Payments Association (EPA), which encourages collaboration and innovation within new and existing finance companies, today announces the outcomes of its first COVID-19 consultation.

Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Reporting (FRR) business and Vizor Software, today announced a partnership for the Singapore market that will increase the quality of regulatory reporting while reducing the time and effort required in regulatory compliance.

Recently, I looked at the question of whether using cash presented more of a COVID-19 health risk than using contactless. There was no convincing evidence either way, but it’s clear that there’s a sentiment against handling cash and that both consumers and merchants favour a move to contactless and online.

The Swiss Stock Exchange and the operator of Nasdaq´s Nordic exchanges have signed a partnership in the first quarter of 2020 to expand the current European microwave network, fostering equal access to the most modern market data transmission technology for the benefit of all market participants.

TrueFX, a purpose-built OTC market designed for the buy-side, has today announced it executed the first set of disclosed trades between counterparties on its network. The first trades were executed by FXCM, AxiCorp, Velocity Trade and leading electronic market makers.

Funding Options, the marketplace for business finance, is now using Open Banking to make it quicker and easier for businesses to access finance. Businesses applying for finance will see their application time reduced from days and hours, to just minutes as they will no longer need to source original bank statements. Around 20 lenders have agreed to consume the Open Banking data as part of their analysis for credit decisions. These include Just Cash Flow, YouLend, Liberis, iwoca, Newable, and White Oak UK.  

Across the public sector there are various forms of digital transformation taking place, at different stages of progress.  Part of the driver for this is that citizens now expect a level of service akin to what they receive from private companies. Speed, usability, availability and reliability are key – as the popularity of ride-hailing, banking and food delivery apps, among many others, continues to prove.

As a global fintech that operates in the UK, US, Australia and Poland, we're witnessing first-hand the effects that the global shutdown is having on personal lending around the world.

The COVID-19 crisis is having a severe impact on the consumer credit market in almost all of the territories in which we operate. In the UK and the US particularly, we're seeing two key themes play out since the outbreak of the virus; a significant reduction in the demand for personal loans combined with a contraction in the supply of credit across nearly all lenders.

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has named Paul Cormier as president and chief executive officer of Red Hat, effective today. Cormier, who previously served as Red Hat’s president of Products and Technologies, succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who is now president of IBM.

Curve, the banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, has become one of the first companies in Europe to provision numberless cards.

Investors from Curve’s record breaking crowdfunding round will be amongst the first in Europe to benefit from the innovative technology when they receive their card in the coming weeks.