Eventus Systems, Inc., a leading global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, today won Markets Media’s 2020 Markets Choice Award (MCA) for Best in RegTech – Surveillance and Financial Risk Management. Eventus earned the honor for its leadership among providers of regulatory technology (RegTech) solutions in the financial industry.

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EBANX, a Brazilian fintech known for providing payment solutions from Brazil and other countries in Latin America to global businesses, started offering to its international merchants the virtual debit card recently launched by the Brazilian Caixa Econômica Federal. Thus, international merchants of EBANX can offer this payment method to their Brazilian consumers.

With the Covid-19 epidemic spurring an increase in cybercrime, compliance professionals are being given a chance to test their detection skills by playing the world’s first money laundering monitoring game.

‘Catch Them If You Can’ is a real-time transaction monitoring game, offering players the chance to showcase their expertise and identify suspicious transactions and catch criminals, while also minimizing false positives.

Specialist anti-money-laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch is continuing its impressive growth, despite the outbreak of Covid-19. It now has more than 4,500 clients across the financial and professional services sectors.

 Finastra announced that Barwick Banking Company (Barwick Bank) is the latest community-facing financial institution to choose Fusion Phoenix core to help transform it into a modern, digitally-enabled institution.

Apricorn, the leading manufacturer of software-free, 256-bit AES XTS hardware-encrypted USB drives today announced findings of its annual survey into the attitudes towards data breaches and the implementation of encryption technology within organisations. Almost half (43 per cent) of surveyed IT decision makers said that their organisation has been reported to the ICO since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect.

Envelop Risk, the leading data-driven underwriting and risk analytics business, today announced a Series A investment of c. $6 million led by AI-specialist investor Alpha Intelligence Capital (“AIC”).  AIC will invest as lead with additional support from existing investors including MS Amlin and Dymon Asia Ventures.

Finantix, the leading global provider of trusted technology to the wealth management, insurance and banking industries, today announces the appointment of Albert Iselin to the role of Executive Director for EMEA, further widening his remit and responsibilities.