Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 - ING), the global leader in seamless payment, has partnered with Newpharma, the Belgian e-pharmacy business, to deliver a payment experience that meets the security needs of online pharmaceutical buyers and supports its ambitious growth plans.

Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services today announces its rebrand as Acuity Knowledge Partners (“Acuity”) following the completion of its management buyout from Moody’s Corporation, supported by the European mid-market private equity investor Equistone Partners Europe Limited (“Equistone”). Acuity, a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics and automation technology to the financial services sector, has also appointed Philip Gore-Randall as Non-Executive Chairman.

ONPEX, a leading provider of multi-currency IBAN accounts, has partnered with UK-based regulated eMoney institution (EMI), AltPay. The partnership will enable AltPay to offer efficient and affordable payments solution to its existing customers, while helping the EMI to achieve its ambitious growth plans for 2020 and beyond.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced that it has been named category winner for Financial Crime - Data in the Chartis Research RiskTech100® – an annual evaluation of the leading global risk technology providers. This marks the second year in a row that the company was named top of the category. LexisNexis Risk Solutions was also again ranked 16^th in the RiskTech100®, the most comprehensive independent study of the world’s major players in risk and compliance technology.

FT Slingshot, a new programme for Indian FinTechs, has launched at Hong Kong FinTech Week.

Rapyd, a global Fintech-as-a-Service company, announced today its partnership with key players of Singapore’s payments ecosystem to provide a single “Singapore Platform” to enable businesses to go “cashless”, in line with the country’s vision of becoming a smart digital nation and a center for Fintech innovation.

An Interview with Shaheen Al Khudhari, Founder & CEO at Ajar Online. 

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Sberbank and SberCloud have unveiled Russia’s fastest supercomputer, the Christofari, named after Nikolai Christofari, the first customer of the nation’s first savings bank.

The supercomputer was presented by Herman Gref, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of Sberbank, and David Rafalovsky, CTO of Sberbank Group, Executive Vice President and Head of the Technology Block of Sberbank, at the International AI Journey conference on AI development and use.

Comarch is excited to introduce a first of its kind cross-sector artificial intelligence platform, Comarch Artificial Intelligence Management (AIM). Powered by the latest innovations in AI and machine learning (ML), Comarch AIM is the cross-industry, enterprise-ready, cloud-based solution that will change the way you do business – making your enterprise more efficient, cost-effective, and data-driven than ever before.