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.

The Czech bank Česká spořitelna gives its customers the opportunity to process payments in real time. The financial institution, a subsidiary of the ERSTE Group Bank AG in Vienna, is thus the first bank in the Czech Republic which provides instant payments. This innovative service is made possible thanks to the Real Time Payment Engine, a software provided by Dion Transaction Solutions, a valantic specialist for financial software solutions having a successful long-term cooperation with the Česká spořitelna.

SBC InsurTech, the award-winning provider of world-class innovation programs for the insurance industry, today announces a new collaboration with leading global professional services firm, Aon. 

SafeCharge (AIM: SCH), the partner of choice for businesses who demand more from payments technology, today announced an extension of its partnership with Gett - the global on-demand mobility company - to streamline payment reconciliation processes across all its payment partners globally. The company has chosen to rely on SafeCharge Reconciliation Manager to automate the matching of transactions across acquirers, payment gateways, banks and customers, preventing revenue losses due to mismatches or incorrect fee charges.

Yolt, the smart thinking money app, surpassed half a million registered users last year, empowering people in the UK, Italy and France to gain a better understanding of their finances. In 2019, Yolt is planning to leverage the power of Open Banking even further to allow its users to spend and save smarter, with even more exciting additions, features and partners.

Despite spending double what most other industries do on digital transformation, an inability to meet digital goals is endemic across the financial services industry, Couchbase has stated.

Changing customer behaviors and demands should be fueling change in the service and products retail banks are offering, according to an in-depth study released today by Temenos (SIX: TEMN), the banking software company.