Having transformed how consumers see ‘payments’, Klarna the Pay later company has turned its sights on the high street. It aims to show retailers how building a positive ‘play-area’ for buyers can inject new life into bricks and mortar outlets. At the same time, it wants to create new opportunities for pure-play digital brands to get hands-on with customers and create even closer engagement.

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced it has been positioned as a leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) services in banking by global research firm NelsonHall. 

The vendor profile highlighted Atos’ strengths in the space, including its portfolio of proprietary IP and BPS (Business & Platform Services) delivery in North America acquired with Syntel, Atos’ relationships with leading product vendors, particularly its Google delivery partnership, and the company’s existing client base of tier-one banks.  

PXP Financial, a global payments expert delivering frictionless acquiring solutions built for merchants by merchants, has strengthened its expert team by welcoming new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Sumit Arora.

SEDCO Capital, a leading global asset manager, has partnered with the CFA Institute to provide a best-practice case study on its fully Shariah-compliant Prudent Ethical Investment (PEI) strategy for a new report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration in equity and fixed-income investments.

Lately, there has been a lot of buzz around Mobile Wallets as it is creating a new wave in Digital Payments. Nonetheless, Mobile wallets are still at a nascent stage in most of the developing countries, but has become the mode of payment in most of the technology adopted nations. Those who implemented Mobile Wallet solutions, are witnessing an upsurge in the usage of mobile wallet payments and so the success.

Fenergo, a leading provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, today announces the launch of Digital Client Orchestration, a suite of CLM tools that integrates front, middle and back office systems using an API-led approach.

CULedger has expanded its partnership with enterprise software firm R3 to further support domestic and cross-border payments for credit unions, also known as financial cooperatives, worldwide, on the Corda blockchain platform. Corda will serve as the underlying basis for CULedger’s new electronic funds transfer (EFT) product, CU Pay.

Finantix, the global provider of digital enabling software for the banking, wealth management and insurance sectors, is delighted to announce the appointment of Tim Wood as Chief Financial Officer. Wood is the latest in a series of senior appointments by Finantix to support and engineer its continued expansion across the European, Asian and North American markets.

 Khaleeji Commercial Bank (KHCB), one of the leading Islamic banks in Bahrain, has officially announced its readiness for open banking services today, making it the first bank in Bahrain and the MENA to be fully compliant with the CBB’s directives.