Button Wallet, the Venmo app for cryptocurrency, today announced U.S. customers can use fiat currency to quickly and securely buy digital assets, making Button the first company or bot to enable users to buy-in with fiat on Telegram. Button’s multi-currency crypto wallet is built and comes pre-installed on Telegram messenger.

Leading global payments provider Klarna has today announced a new partnership with omni-channel occasion-wear brand QUIZ. From today, customers shopping online at QUIZ will be able to benefit from Klarna’s Pay later in 30 days payment option.

For the seventh consecutive year, Temenos (SIX : TEMN), the banking software company, has been named 'Top Global Player' for combined deals in research firm Forrester's prestigious Global Banking Platform Deals Survey 2019, a key benchmark for measuring new and extended banking system business.

An interview with Chris Thomas, Managing Director EMEA of Emailage 

Financial IT: Could you please give us an overview of Emailage & the industry you are in and your experience?

Chris Thomas (CT): As the global hub of email intelligence, the Emailage team has a single goal: to unite businesses of all sizes from all around the world in the fight against global fraud.

KRM22, the technology and software company, focused on risk management in capital markets, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Object+, a risk management and post-trade services technology company for capital markets firms.

Based in the Netherlands with offices in Amsterdam and Chicago, Object+ services global banking and trading firms across Europe, North America and Asia. Its market risk management technology includes real-time P&L and margin management, as well as pre-trade order limit management capabilities.

This September over 250 heads of FX trading and portfolio management from Europe’s leading buy side firms will be exclusively gathering in Barcelona again for TradeTech FX.

With over 600 market leading FX specialists in attendance, TradeTech FX continues to deliver the industry’s biggest and most senior FX event in Europe.

3 reasons why you should attend:

As we have seen, a common thread – or concern – with technological developments in finance is cyber security. Will these technologies strengthen or hinder the protection of systems and consumers’ data?

FSS (Financial Software and Systems), a global payments technology company, confirmed today its expansion strategy for its European operations, which includes the creation of a regional headquarters in Amsterdam.  Servicing 100+ leading financial institutions globally, FSS has a presence in the UK, and is making significant investments in the   region to expand its footprint in mainland Europe to strengthen customer delivery capabilities and grow market share.   

The annual P20 conference, which convenes business leaders, government officials and regulators from across the global payments industry, is returning to London in October 2019.

P20 is the voice of the global payments industry and applies a wealth of collective expertise to guide and implement change, with the aim of improving the industry’s effectiveness.

FIT: Can you tell us more about the Kofax and your background?