BlueSnap, an online payments technology company, today announced a partnership with Chargebacks911, a technology platform provider for loss prevention and dispute management, to offer comprehensive dispute management tools to users of BlueSnap’s payment processing solutions.

Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity houses, has invested £2 million in high-growth FinTech provider Delio Limited (“Delio”). The funding will support the business scale its international sales team across key global financial locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America.

More than 800 start-ups from across the globe have entered this latest edition of BBVA Open Talent, with 90 countries represented. From that list 56 have now been provisionally shortlisted as finalists, all of which come from BBVA’s core operating countries.

Sberbank has implemented a feature on remote banking services on letters of credit in Sberbank Business Online’s system. The service has no analogues on the Russian market. It is already used by more than 600 legal entities.

Clients can create applications on letters of credit online and independently send them to the bank to be processed. The whole document flow become electronic: clients can send letters on current deals, make changes, submit applications on early payments, as well as answer letters and requests from bank in one click.

 InGenius® Software Inc., a computer telephony integration (CTI) innovator, today announced integration support for Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. The new InGenius integration brings call data into Financial Services Cloud with a user interface in the Salesforce window that provides an unobstructed view of client data alongside intuitive call controls and advanced features for phone agents.

New Zealand has today ruled receiving income in Bitcoin as Legal, and CoinCorner one of the UK’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, reveals that it began paying its employees in Bitcoin earlier this year.

Staff at the company were given the option to receive part or all of their salary in cryptocurrency. Each member of staff had the choice to receive the GBP equivalent of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin or XRP (cryptocurrencies currently supported by CoinCorner) to include in their monthly pay packet.

Today, Wirex Japan Limited officially became a type II member of the Japan Virtual Currency Exchange Association (JVCEA) - a vital and hard-earned step towards being able to offer the full range of Wirex services to customers in Japan.

Wirex Japan Limited is a 100% subsidiary of payments innovator Wirex Limited. Today, it became only the 8th financial services company to become a type II member of the JVCEA - a notable achievement in itself and an integral stage in the journey to recognised Crypto Asset Exchange Service Provider status.

Colu DLT,  the Gibraltar based subsidiary company of the Colu Group, becomes one of the first companies to voluntarily offer to purchase the entirety of tokens sold during an ICO, as blockchain project concludes. The Colu Group has seen the recent growth in partnerships with municipalities across the world, and it continues to implement its vision of helping strengthen communities and cities by focusing on municipalities and city partners, rather than building local community blockchain platform.