Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 - GTO), the world leader in digital security today announces its results for the first semester 2018.

PensionBee provides a solution for people who change their jobs often and may leave their pensions behind. PensionBee FinTech start-up has been established in UK and aims to deliver its services to UK pension savers, while planning to expand further. The project's main mission is to make pension management as simple as possible.

PensionBee Personal Pension aims to:

Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, announces that Angelo Piccirillo has been named Group General Counsel as of September 1st, 2018. Piccirillo will assume responsibility for leading the Global Transversal Legal function, including the Group and Regional legal teams. He succeeds Bob Stern, who is retiring as of August 31, 2018 after 33 years in the company.

Ebury has become the first FinTech to go live with SWIFT’s global payments innovation (gpi). The move marks an important milestone for SWIFT gpi with new entrants now joining up in addition to traditional banks, evidencing the widespread appeal of the new service. Half of gpi payments are credited within 30 minutes, many within seconds – and almost 100% within 24 hours – enabling Ebury’s clients to fast-track their international payments.

Adyen, the payments platform of choice for many of the world’s leading companies, today launched a fully-certified 3D Secure (3DS) 2.0 solution which it has made available to its customers or merchants needing a next-generation authentication solution.

The first-to-market solution is based on EMVCo’s 3DS protocols and will help merchants reduce risk and protect their customers from payments fraud. It also overcomes a significant pain point of 3DS 1.0 by improving the payments experience for customers, particularly on mobile.

The small to medium enterprise or SME is the foundation stone of our business community. Smaller firms account for up to 95 percent, sometimes more, of the business landscape across many countries.

Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the region, today announced the launch of DirectRemit services to the United Kingdom (UK), enabling customers to transfer money instantly back home, free of any charges and at competitive exchange rates. 

Singapore Exchange (SGX), a multi-asset class exchange operating in the equity, fixed income and derivatives markets, has selected NeoXam, a leading provider of data management and transaction software solutions dedicated to the financial industry, to create a central data repository to store reference and corporate actions data.

Compass Plus, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software to processors and financial institutions,has announced that it has migrated BPP, a Brazilian prepaid card issuer, to the Compass Plus Processing Centre in just two months – its first processing customer in the Americas.