Mastercard and PayPal announced a multi-year extension of the PayPal Extras Mastercard co-branded consumer credit card program in the United States and Puerto Rico.

“We are proud to continue our long-standing relationship with PayPal through this program,” said Craig Vosburg, president, North America, Mastercard. “In this increasingly digital world, we are providing PayPal cardholders with the most advanced and secure technologies, giving them the core guarantees and benefits they’ve come to expect from Mastercard, regardless of how and where they pay.”

OANDA has been named the world’s Best Retail FX Platform at the prestigious e-FX awards by leading industry publication FX Week, beating out a host of competitors and knocking last year’s winner off the top spot.

A global leader in online multi-asset trading services, OANDA combines cutting-edge trading technology and exceptional execution across a wide range of asset classes, enabling clients to trade global market indices, commodities, treasuries, precious metals and currencies both on their institutional-gradeOANDA trading platform and the ever popular MT4.

Meed, the Santa Monica-based company committed to bringing socially-conscious innovation to the financial sector, today announced that Anatol von Hahn had agreed to join as Vice-Chairman. Von Hahn had been announced as a member of the Meed Advisory Board back in March, after he left a distinguished career of over 30 years in international banking with the Scotiabank organization across Canada as well as the establishment and expansion of operations in Mexico, the Caribbean and across Central and South America.

SS&C Technologies Holdings reports that Alpima, a London-based advisory firm serving professional and institutional clients, has selected Advent Portfolio Exchange®(APX) and Moxy® to support its digital advisory platform.

Together with SS&C, Alpima's platform combines the power of digitalization with personalization to give its institutional clients a new investment experience. Alpima is thrilled to be working with SS&C to provide a unique solution and the ability to assemble and execute sophisticated investment strategies simply, quickly, and cost-effectively.

IBM announced that developers and IT managers across the U.S. cited IBM Bluemix as one of the fastest growing and one of the most widely adopted platforms as a service (PaaS) according to a new survey from the analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).

 Nasdaq BWise has been selected by Dubai Islamic Bank, the largest Islamic bank in the United Arab Emirates, to support and further enhance their risk management, compliance and internal control processes gaining a deeper and more real-time visibility into their risks and overarching control frameworks.

Jumio, Corp. the leader in digital ID verification today announced Cityscoot, the mobile scooter sharing network in Paris, is getting Parisians moving by allowing users to instantly hire and drive its fleet of scooters.

Solving the MiFID II challenge requires a significant amount of human resources and technology investment that, if solved on an individual basis could prove very costly with only limited, if any, competitive advantage.  Project Sentinel’s collaborative approach enables market participants to pool their resources by investing in a standards-based, strategic MiFID II compliant technology solution that will automate the regulatory business processes for the front office; delivering that functionality with maximum efficiency and minimum commercial risk.

Fifth Third Bank's customers will have access to fast, simple and secure digital payments across devices. Fifth Third Masterpass, developed with Mastercard, enables customers to shop online, in app and now, in-store with Android devices.

ACI Worldwide, a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced the results of its new Thai Commerce & Payment Study. The survey asked approximately 300 technologists about their shopping habits and payment preferences for in-store, online and mobile transactions in Thailand, where eCommerce sales are expected to be valued at 800 billion Baht in 2021.