SIX has acquired a stake in token securities issuer daura as it prepares for the live launch next year of its digital asset exchange SDX.

2019 has been quite a year: we had the implementation of PSD2, Brexit uncertainty, increased sanctions brought on by the changes in US foreign policy and Facebook was fined a record-breaking penalty of 5 billion dollars by the Federal Trade Commission (TFC) for violating consumers’ privacy rights.

Gary E. Barnett, CEO of Semafone, the leading provider of data security and compliance solutions for the payment industry, has released his top six 2020 predictions for the cybersecurity and payment industries.

Nordea has entered into an agreement with Société Générale to acquire all shares in SG Finans AS (“SG Finans”) and intends to combine the business with Nordea’s pan-Nordic finance company, Nordea Finance. SG Finans is a Norwegian domiciled subsidiary of Société Générale and provides equipment finance and factoring solutions. SG Finans has 360 employees and operates in Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

 Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), the global payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, announced today that it has entered into an agreement to make Adyen’s payments platform available to McDonald’s markets globally, beginning with the U.K. early next year.

Financial IT had an interview with Gary E. Barnett, the CEO of Semafone about the company and trends in telecommunications industry 

Financial IT: Could you please tell us more about Semafone and your background?

genesis, the international capital markets software firm today announced the closing of its second capital raise, securing $1.8m of investment in a round that was led by Illuminate Financial Management, a U.K. based capital markets venture capital firm and Tribeca Early Stage Partners, a New York venture group. genesis has now raised $5m since its first external capital injection in November 2018.

 NICE Actimize, a NICE  business and the leader in Autonomous Financial Crime Management, has been selected by Chailease Holding Co. Ltd., an international leader in leasing and professional financial services, to implement an end-to-end anti-money laundering compliance platform for its growing organization.

An absence of verification and branding has been one of the main limitations of SMS, so it is great to see Google setting out to restore trust, improve experience and allow companies to measure success.