Deluxe, a Trusted Business Technology™ company, today announced it has added the Remittance Solutions assets of Fiserv – which include lockbox processing – complementing its Deluxe Treasury Management portfolio of solutions.

As banks and other financial services firms to look to strengthen their services and tackle increased competition from new rivals in banking and investment management, fintech partnerships are becoming increasingly popular across the industry.

RBR’s Self-Service Banking Asia conference will be hosted in Vietnam for the first time in 2020. The region’s leading conference on self-service and digital banking, taking place in March, will address the most important issues facing the industry today.

Southeast Asia – where banking races to keep pace with demand

ING announced today that Pinar Abay will be appointed member of the Management Board Banking and head of Market Leaders, taking up the responsibility for ING’s operations in the Benelux. She will take up her new position per 1 January 2020.

UK robo-adviser Nutmeg has announced its chief executive Martin Stead is to step down early in the new year.

Intesa Sanpaolo is to sell its merchant acquiring business at 380,000 points of sale across Italy to local payments processor Nexi for €1000.

According to the World Economic Forum, digitalization could unlock $100 trillion in value for businesses and wider society over the next decade – but what will that look like, and who will it reach? We are seeing a number of new companies and new business models transform the way consumers gain access to goods and services, and many of them may have a profound impact on financial inclusion.

Software piracy is a global industry worth more than £34 billion. Now a Welsh legal firm is teaming up with the academic sector in this country to develop the skills required to fight back.

Apple Pay is now available for St.George, BankSA and Bank of Melbourne customers with an eligible Visa debit or credit card. With Apple Pay, customers can make fast and convenient purchases in stores, in apps and on participating websites.
In addition, Westpac Group has committed to delivering Apple Pay for Westpac customers by June 2020.

David Lindberg, Westpac Group Chief Executive, Consumer, said launching Apple Pay for customers has been a priority since being appointed to lead the bank’s consumer division earlier in the year.