The 3rd Nextgen Payments Forum, taking place on 27-28 February 2018, in Malta, will be providing delegates with a fully-loaded programme over two days with 14 talks and over 70 key industry players and financial experts from all over the world. These thought-leaders will be sharing their knowledge on the future of the financial services industry.

Appian (NASDAQ:APPN), a leading low-code and business process management platform provider, today announced that it has signed a global agreement with Banco Santander (SAN SM, STD US, BNC LN).

Metapraxis, the leading financial analytics business, today announces the appointment of multiple time technology entrepreneur, Nicole Anderson as Chair of the board. 

Nicole is a venture builder and investment advisor in areas such as corporate venture, venture capital, family office and ICOs. As well as stepping into the role of Metapraxis Chair, Nicole is also Managing Partner of Redsand Partners and has worked extensively across the fintech investment landscape, supporting investment mandates in corporate venture, impact and angel investing. 

Ripple, the enterprise blockchain solution for global payments, has seen interest in its network continue to accelerate around the world. After recently surpassing more than 100 members, additional international financial institutions have joined RippleNet. Two banks - Itaú Unibanco (Brazil) & IndusInd (India) - and three fast-growing remittance providers - InstaReM (Singapore), Beetech (Brazil) and Zip Remit (Canada) are joining RippleNet to facilitate payments both into and out of emerging, global markets.

Financial services organizations and their compliance programs face the hard realities of meeting regulatory requirements around detecting and reporting anti-money laundering schemes, while managing the cost of compliance.

The collapse of Northern Rock ten years ago, and the ensuing financial crisis, has profoundly changed how people in the UK work to this day.

 QuantaVerse, the first in the market with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions purpose-built for identifying financial crimes, finished 2017 strong as adoption of AI and machine learning to identify suspicious financial activity continues to accelerate.

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) solutions provider, today announced the appointment Vincent Kilcoyne as head of product management and the internal appointment of Christian Schiebl as Chief Operating Officer.

The impact of Blockchain, Open Banking, Mobile Money and Payment innovations are radically transforming the financial services landscape as FinTech disruptors intensify the challenge to incumbent banks and kickstart new opportunities in Kenya