TSYS announced that Lloyds Banking Group, the UK's leading provider of current accounts, savings, personal loans, credit cards and mortgages, has renewed its agreement with TSYS to continue to process the bank’s UK commercial card portfolio.

Bibby Transportation Finance (BTF), a subsidiary of Bibby Financial Services, announces the addition of Ivan Cook as Business Development Officer. Cook rejoins BTF to focus on providing freight factoring and asset-based lending solutions to customers as the company accelerates its North America growth strategy.

 ALTX East Africa Ltd goes live with its high tech exchange. The team led by CEO, Joseph Kitamirike has built the exchange since 2013, and spent most of the last eight months optimising their systems, aiming to deliver a world class securities exchange facility. The platform obtained regulatory approval in 2014 and depository approval was secured in 2015.

Daon, a global leader in mobile biometric authentication technology, launched a 

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced today that it is bringing Samsung Pay—the most widely accepted mobile payment system—to Puerto Rico. Starting today, Samsung Pay will support eligible credit cards from Banco Popular, Puerto Rico’s largest bank, and will be available on AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Claro networks in Puerto Rico.

Fiserv, a leading global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that Encentus Federal Credit Union, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has selected the Portico^® core account processing platform with an integrated solution suite that includes digital banking and lending services.

Infoteria Corporation and Tech Bureau Corporation have successfully transferred loan and deposit account data in the main system of BC Finance, one of the largest microfinance institutions in Myanmar, to mijin (*1), the private blockchain (*2) placed on Microsoft Azure (*3) using ASTERIA WARP (*4) and mijin adapters (*5).

SolidX Partners Inc., an innovative blockchain technology company, announced the launch of Vida, the world's first full-stack identity solution using blockchain technology. Vida provides enterprises with robust identity management capabilities without the need to hold personal identifying information. Vida is the first service of its kind to provide one identity across numerous applications, streamlining permissioned access to data and services without shared-secret based access mechanisms (e.g., usernames and passwords, government ID numbers, etc.).

Neyber, a provider of financial employee benefits, today announces the appointment of Andrew Collings to the newly created role of Head of Sales. Andrew has over 20 years’ experience in driving sales of employee benefits and financial services across the private and public sectors. He will join Neyber’s senior management team and bring expertise in client acquisition and strategic business development.