This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the Open Banking initiative which was designed to increase competition and ensure a better experience for account holders. The last year has seen a sharp rise in the number of new fintech start-ups entering the market, putting 35 per cent of the revenue of traditional banks at risk.

Omnio Group, a banking and payment services provider formed by the merger of Payment Cloud Technologies (PCT) and Tuxedo Money Solutions, has partnered with student travel specialist, STA Travel, to launch its innovative STA Travel Mastercard and digital account on the Austrian market. 

For too long technical expertise has been seen as the marker of a strong candidate for development into a sales or leadership position. Sales and leadership candidates are tasked with demonstrating a diverse and wide-ranging set of technical skills, yet their aptitude in these technical skills or ‘hard skills’ cannot signify great leadership potential. This is why a healthy balance of soft skills and technical ability is required.

The ecommerce payments landscape is evolving as mobile and alternative payment methods rise in popularity.

The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX), an institutional-grade, regulated and insured token sale platform and digital asset exchange, has today added Ripple (XRP) to its Digital Asset Exchange (GBX-DAX), a state-of-the-art exchange created with the high expectations of professional crypto-traders in mind. 

CardFlight, the leading SaaS payment technology company, and JetPay, the leader in vertically integrated payment solutions for all business sizes, announced a new partnership today. 

UNPay, the global one-stop fintech open platform provider, announced today that it has clinched the Outstanding Cross-border e-Commerce Financial Services Enterprise Award, hosted by The Shenzhen Cross-border e-Commerce Association. Held in Shenzhen on 7 January, the theme of this year's award, shines the spotlight on "open trade and breakthrough". As one of the main driving forces in e-commerce, cross border trade is key to the success of online sellers around the world. 

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, and Deutscher Sparkassenverlag (DSV), today announced the closing of the combination of BS PAYONE, a Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe subsidiary, with Ingenico Retail assets in DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) following the approval of the German competition regulator Bundeskartellamt and the Financial Supervisory Authority.

Money: people love and hate to talk about it. They want to make it, they want to use it, and they love having it, but when it comes to actually thinking about it, how we get it, how we use and how it helps or hurt us—that’s when people start to ask questions.