Bell ID – the mobile payments specialist recently acquired by Rambus – has announced a new collaboration with First Data Poland to offer cloud-based mobile payments as a service to Polish banks.

MasterCard unveiled the first commerce application for SoftBank Robotics’ humanoid robot Pepper. The application will be powered by MasterPass, the global digital payment service from MasterCard that connects consumers with merchants, enabling them to make fast, simple, and secure digital payments across channels and devices.

Guggenheim KBBO Partners, a global financial services firm headquartered in Dubai, announced today that it has hired Mohammad Barraj as a Managing Director of Investment Banking.

Object Trading, a provider of a multi-asset trading infrastructure, expands its Direct Market Access (DMA) Service Platform by announcing today that fully managed services are now available at TMX Group’s co-location centre for access to the Montréal Exchange (MX). This expansion provides flexibility for the buy-side and sell-side, in response to the sell-side experiencing mass retrenchment while exchange volumes increase.

Global Prime Partners, the award-winning boutique prime broker, has signed a partnership with RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, to provide its growing client base with access to leading research content.  Global Prime Partners’ clients - including hedge funds, family offices and asset managers – will now have direct access to vital institutional  research from over 130 providers on the RSRCHX platform and will be able to track usage in real time via the integrated dashboard.

 Mobeam, the unique global leader in mobile barcode beaming, today announced that its technology has been incorporated into Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s popular Samsung Pay mobile payment service. Mobeam technology has been used in Samsung Pay for a number of months for the redemption of gift cards that are barcode based.

 Santander InnoVentures, the fintech venture capital fund of Santander Group, today announced its latest portfolio investment in SigFig – a US-based provider of wealth management technology, designed to provide high-quality investment advice to all wealth levels via a combination of design, data science, and technology.