Mastercard today announced the appointment of Paul Stoddart as president, New Payment Platforms, effective March 1, 2019. Stoddart succeeds David Yates, who will transition into a senior advisory role focused on real-time national and cross-border payments strategies.  

In this role, Stoddart will oversee the development and strategic integration of Mastercard’s real-time payments capabilities beyond traditional card-based solutions. Among these solutions are our Vocalink account-based payments, the Homesend joint venture and Mastercard Send.

Since the 1980s, momentum behind real-time payments (RTP) – also known as faster or instant payments – has grown at an accelerated pace, because of its benefits to both consumers and businesses. Estimates currently suggest approximately 35 countries, including Switzerland, Taiwan, India, China and the UK, have implemented or are developing RTP schemes. 

Secure Trading / acquiring.com have announced today the extension of their complementary cloud-based payment gateway (Secure Trading) and next generation acquiring solution (acquiring.com), thanks to the addition of AEVI’s vendor-agnostic payment app, and smart point-of-sale solution. The partnership will allow Secure Trading / acquiring.com to offer omnichannel point-of-sale solutions, powering payments for merchants and partners by leveraging SmartPOS, MPOS, Unattended, Internet of Things (IOT), and new payment form factors.

Arcserve, LLC, the world’s most experienced data protection provider, today announced its third generation Appliance Series, the first purpose-built appliances designed for disaster recovery and application availability to provide organizations with an all-in-one option for on-appliance and offsite backup and disaster recovery (DR) that can be deployed in under 15 minutes.

Shield Financial Compliance (Shield FC) is proud to announce it is one of the winners in the Deloitte RegTech Challenge

After a successful launch in Austria and Germany in 2017, CashtoCode (C2C), the instant cash payment service for online goods, today announced its availability in several new European markets including the UK, Greece and Italy. This expansion means that players can now make physical cash deposits into their iGaming accounts from more than 60,000 retail locations in Europe.

Sterling Trading Tech (STT), an innovative trading technology leader in the RaaS (Risk as a Service) space, and Eventus Systems, a leading global trade surveillance and market risk platform provider, announced today that Eventus has integrated the Sterling Cloud-Based Analytics Engine (SRE) into its Validus platform to benefit mutual customers.

SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the partner of choice for businesses who demand more from payments technology, today announced the launch of Identity Manager, an innovative solution for seamless automation of digital Identity Validation. With identity verification being one of the thorniest challenges for online businesses, Identity Manager streamlines complex background checks in a fast and cost-effective manner.

Building on its successful multi-currency IBAN account offering, ONPEX will be launching its new automated foreign exchange (FX) capability in March 2019.