The Asian Banker Annual Excellence in Retail Financial Services Awards Ceremony and Dinner 2019 took place at the Conrad Dubai. Over 200 senior bankers from 40 banks across Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa gathered to recognise institutional best practices and outstanding achievements in 2018.

 Finastra has launched Fusion Digital Front Office, an innovative tablet-based banking platform that enables community banks and credit unions to take services directly to the consumer, outside of the branch. The solution provides a simple gateway to manage account origination, sales and service, and transaction processing from any remote location.

Surecomp®, the leading global provider of trade finance solutions for banks and corporates, announced today the successful upgrade of allNETT®, a SWIFT compliant web based front-end trade finance system for The Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited (Krungsri Group). The bank will now be running allNETT 6.3 alongside Surecomp’s back-office trade finance solution; together they will provide Krungsri a seamless,  end-to-end processing of their trade finance operations. 

Mastercard today introduced a vision for digital identity in today’s increasingly connected world.  A new paper, Restoring Trust in a Digital World, presents a detailed framework of how digital identity will work, starting with the individual sitting at the heart of every digital interaction. 

The international payments startup has raised a new round of $100m USD investment led by DST Global, becoming a fintech unicorn

Airwallex, an international payments fintech that specialises in low-cost, seamless cross-border payments, has today confirmed its unicorn status following successful series C funding of $100m USD, leading to a valuation at more than $1bn USD.

Guardicore, a leader in internal data centre and cloud security, today announced the launch of its Guardicore Threat Intelligence community resource. Developed by the Guardicore Labs research team, Guardicore Threat Intelligence is a freely available public resource for identifying and investigating malicious IP addresses and domains.

The deployment of Consumer Device Cardholder Verification Method (CDCVM) solutions across the payments ecosystem is increasing. EMVCo is therefore working to promote confidence and consistency by identifying and addressing specific security, functional and performance needs for CDCVM.

Simplicity, security and ubiquity sit at the very core of some of the most progressive innovations of our generation. These innovations have challenged the notion of, “that’s how it was always done” to lead to transformational “can’t live without” products and services that have made our day to day experiences better, faster and more convenient. Just 10 years ago, you couldn’t have imagined a world where your car ride or your morning coffee could be customized and delivered to you with the tap of your finger.