Businesses, large and small alike, are motivated towards efficiency and reduced costs. That is the nature of global trade: efficiency reduces expenses, and diminished costs improve the bottom line.

Leading digital money transfer service WorldRemit has partnered with Vodacom Tanzania to enable nine million M-Pesa customers to receive money directly to their M-Pesa wallets from friends and family living abroad.

The new service increases convenience for money transfer recipients in urban and rural areas of Tanzania as they can receive international money transfers directly to their phones, without the need for a bank account or internet connection.

The international B2B marketplace Tradalaxy has announced its landmark launch in Europe and Canada, introducing a host of sophisticated digital instruments for local businesses looking to go global. The platform emphasizes responsible business practices, sustainability, safety and smart business decisions powered by real data.

Increasing focus on vendor due diligence has put significant pressure on financial institutions and vendors alike.  The challenge comes into focus when we think about the macro implications.  There are an estimated 20,000 financial services institutions trying to qualify some 20,000 vendors using questionnaires that can have hundreds of questions.

Sweden's central bank is set to sign a deal with Accenture to develop a digital currency, dubbed the e-krona, in a test environment.

Metro Bank has begun accepting registrations for its on-demand cash collection and delivery service for SMEs across the UK.

Giants in their own right, ICBC - the world's largest bank in terms of assets - will work with Alibaba and Ant Financial by leveraging their collective expertise in electronic payment settlement and cross border finance to promote the wider use of digital technology in financial services.

 Mambu, a cloud banking platform, today announced that it has been selected by ODX, a leading provider of small business digital lending solutions for financial institutions and a subsidiary of OnDeck (NYSE: ONDK), to provide servicing technology for ODX’s digital lending platform.

Ruby Gonzalez, the Head of Communications at NordVPN talked to PreciseSecurity.com about the cybersecurity market and how the industry is moving forward by creating and investing in new products and services. There are many challenges that the sector needs to face, including the fast learning rate of hackers.

She has also mentioned that one of the main reasons that push users to start using security solutions include regional tensions, among other things.

TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has today announced the Boston based Quantopian has selected TORA for its multi asset OEMS. Quantopian chose the TORA OEMS due to its industry leading functionality, interoperability with other systems and compliance coupled with a high standard of on the ground support and professional services resources.