Mastercard today announced that Brex, the financial technology company that helps ambitious companies scale, has partnered with Mastercard as its preferred network to bring cutting-edge technology and top-tier benefits to its corporate card portfolio in the United States.

Penta, the digital platform for business banking, focusing on founders and small and medium enterprises (SME) is launching their fi

Global cryptocurrency platform DCoin.com has been selected by E3, a Malaysian entrepreneur development organisation to conduct an initial exchange offering of the world's first Entrepreneur Token E3T (E3 Token). E3 aims to build the world's largest digital ecosystem for global entrepreneurs powered by E3T. E3T is a utility token and acts as a medium exchange among E3 members within a closedloop entrepreneur ecosystem.

Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today launched its digital platform - 

MICRON INSIGHT — Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU), today introduced the industry’s first silicon-based security-as-a-service platform for protecting internet of things (IoT) edge devices. The new Micron^® Authenta^TM Key Management Service (KMS) platform enables a cloud-first deployment model for a broad set of industrial and automotive applications.

Digital banking leaders, Backbase and Payveris, have partnered to provide financial institutions with integrated digital payments and money movement solution. The combined offering will enable financial institutions of all sizes to deliver next generation payment and money movement services that businesses and consumers demand: a fast, low-friction user experience that makes it easy to take care of all of their bill payment and money movement needs.

Chargebacks911, the award-winning FinTech cybersecurity that manages 200 million online transactions per month and has helped its clients recover $1+ billion in disputed revenue, announced today the opening of its newest corporate offices. Located in Boise, Idaho, this expansion is expected to help Chargebacks911 better-serve its growing client-base, which consists of merchants, e-stores and businesses in 87 countries worldwide.

Global fintech leader Avaloq has become a member of the Fintech Alliance, the fast-growing London-based hub of UK and global technology firms, investors and financial services institutions. The membership reflects the strong growth of Avaloq’s UK presence and client base, and comes at a time when London has become one of the world’s leading fintech and investment centres. Through being a member, Avaloq expects to further increase its footprint in the UK as well as identify additional fintechs to co-innovate with.

Research from Ivalua, a leading provider of global spend management cloud solutions, has shown that almost three quarters (74%) of UK businesses have encountered some type of supply chain risk in the last 12 months. The most common threats organisations faced include supplier failure (48%), supply shortage (46%) and environmental impact, such as pollution or waste (33%).

“A recent McKinsey survey found that the CFO’s role has become broader and more complex than even 2 years ago.  Today’s CFO has an average of 6.2 reporting functional areas with a corresponding increase in responsibilities including board engagement and taking the lead in digital transformation initiatives.” In order to adapt to the constant changes within the role, a modern CFO must be passionate about innovation and value creation.