This really is the decade of the Fintech start-up. The payments world is experiencing an unprecedented rate of change; new payment methods and technologies are resulting in increasingly frictionless payment experiences, causing closer integration between online shopping and payments to match the user experience.

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that India’s Federal Bank is leveraging its UP Payments Risk Management solution to identify fraudulent card activity, mitigate losses and enhance customer relationships.

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, and IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, today announced that Goldman Sachs has joined its cross-currency swaps settlement service. There are now eight settlement members live on the service, including some of the largest global banks.

Since the global economy and political environment are currently undergoing deep changes, IMF forecasts that Chinese economy growth in 2020 will keep falling back, and will be still at the bottom of the operating stage. In this year, three goals will be "finished", so keeping stably growth is very important, and it is expected that countercyclical policies will maintain "deterministic growth" in the uncertainty of economic environment.

Today, Mastercard and Octet Europe announce the launch of a new trade solution across the European Economic Area (EEA).

For today’s efficiency-loving consumers, convenience is more important than ever. When it comes to unlocking our smartphones, for example, the hassle of having to remember PINs and passwords has been long discarded in favour of quick and easy fingerprint authentication.

Global financial services provider iBanFirst, delivering solutions across banking borders, has announced that it will continue to expand with the help of venture capital funds Elaia and Bpifrance, through its growth capital fund Large Venture. The pair join French funds Serena and Breega, which first invested in the fintech in November 2018 and have participated once again in this latest funding round. They will find themselves alongside Xavier Niel, who acquired stakes in the company in October 2016.

Neptune Networks Ltd. (“Neptune”), the fixed income pre-trade market utility, announced today that it had recently closed a successful capital raise from existing shareholders. Neptune has raised in excess of $15 million across two-tranches.

The majority of Neptune’s existing shareholders participated in the capital raise, these included Bank of America, Barclays, BBVA, BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, ING, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and UBS.

Surecomp®, the market leader in global trade finance and treasury solutions for banks and corporations, today announced the launch of its new fintech Marketplace. Accompanied by the launch of a fresh new brand identity, website and API developer portal, the arrival of Marketplace epitomizes the evolution of industry change and digitization by offering a web-based platform providing single point access to other innovative solutions within the wider trade finance ecosystem.